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Re: `save-excursion' defeated by `set-buffer'


From: rusi
Subject: Re: `save-excursion' defeated by `set-buffer'
Date: 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...


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