[aklug] Re: My dream editor...?

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 07:37:15PM -0800, Christopher Howard wrote:
> I think I may have found my dream replacement for Emacs. It's an editor
> written in Haskell, called Yi:
>
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yi
> http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/yi.html
>
> I just jumped into it, but from what I understand the program itself is
> a compiled Haskell "kernel" that in turn compiles all the extensions
> that make up the editor functionality. Out of the box it comes with
> extensions that emulate a number of editors such as Vim, Vi, and Emacs,
> and vty, gtk, and Cocoa front ends available for it.
>
> The coolest part (from my perspective) is that, as Wikipedia puts it,
> "using Haskell as a first-class extension language means that other
> libraries and tools written in Haskell are also readily usable in editor
> code." So I'll be able to load in my nifty Haskell modules. I just got
> it compiled today, but I tried it out for a few minutes under Emacs
> emulation. The common key bindings seemed to work fine, and I was able
> to run a few functions using M-x.

Sounds like the ultimate Notepad replacement ;)
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Received on Thu May 19 19:41:53 2011