russell@turing.ac.uk (Russell Ritchie) (01/18/91)
Archive-name: gnu/emacs/hyperemacs/1991-01-16 Original-posting-by: russell@turing.ac.uk (Russell Ritchie) Original-subject: Re: what would an emacs graphics editor look like ? Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) HyperEmacs, a set of C patches and Elisp extensions for GNU, posted here (or in gnu.emacs, I forget which) before Christmas (and the great GNUsgroup renaming) may be just what you're looking for. It interfaces the GNU Lisp programming environment directly to the high-level HyperNeWS user-interface development environment (available from an FTP site near you). This allows developers to use the GNU Lisp environment to prototype applications, with all the obvious attendant benefits. Just in case it proved essential/useful, this interface includes the ability to send "raw" PostScript to OpenWindows (nee X/NeWS). You could use this facility to define your higher-level Lisp PostScript primitives (although I'd be *very* interested in hearing more about the LispScript you talk of...). If you missed HyperEmacs when it passed, which was easy to do since it was posted as 3 uuencoded compressed tar files because we lacked a sensible shar package at the time, ask "dug@uk.ac.turing" nicely and you will be aptly rewarded.