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Re: `save-excursion' defeated by `set-buffer'
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rusi |
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Re: `save-excursion' defeated by `set-buffer' |
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Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:46:38 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Mar 16, 1:11 pm, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Aha so that's the culprit
> > (info "(eintr)append save-excursion")
>
> > A 30 year old project has 30 years of tradition, 30 years of of
> > stability...
> > And 30 years of cruft.
> > Anyone for a heavy-duty coarse-grade scrub?
>
> Who is going to translate all that Elisp into Lua?
>
> --
> David Kastrup
Lua? Whoa! Thats a super-heavy-duty scrub :-)
Anyhow if thats the chosen route, a path could be with an interim dual-
language period -- as follows:
1. Add lua sources into emacs -- relatively trivial
2. Build data-structure bridges for communicating data structures
between elisp and lua
3. Code up something like python's 2to3 http://docs.python.org/library/2to3.html
for translating most of elisp to lua
[Note: most is doable, all is not]
Such bridges already exist -- eg pymacs, eclim and emacs-eclim.
Anyhow -- dunno if this -- elisp-obsolescence -- is the main/real
cruft...
- Re: `save-excursion' defeated by `set-buffer', (continued)
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- Re: `save-excursion' defeated by `set-buffer', Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/15
- RE: `save-excursion' defeated by `set-buffer', Drew Adams, 2011/03/15
- Re: `save-excursion' defeated by `set-buffer', Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/15
- Re: `save-excursion' defeated by `set-buffer', Jason Earl, 2011/03/15
- RE: `save-excursion' defeated by `set-buffer', Drew Adams, 2011/03/15
- Re: `save-excursion' defeated by `set-buffer', rusi, 2011/03/16
- Re: `save-excursion' defeated by `set-buffer', David Kastrup, 2011/03/16
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- Re: `save-excursion' defeated by `set-buffer', Antoine Levitt, 2011/03/17
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- RE: `save-excursion' defeated by `set-buffer', Uday S Reddy, 2011/03/16
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- Re: `save-excursion' defeated by `set-buffer', Tim X, 2011/03/12
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- Re: `save-excursion' defeated by `set-buffer', Uday Reddy, 2011/03/11
Re: `save-excursion' defeated by `set-buffer', David Kastrup, 2011/03/10
Re: `save-excursion' defeated by `set-buffer', rusi, 2011/03/31