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

* Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> [110519 19:47]:
> 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
  Christopher, do I take that to mean that the program itself is a
  binary that is created by compiling of haskell code? IOWS:
  haskell has both interpreter and compiler?

> 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.
  :) brings back memories of my emacs days. Keep us up to date on
  this.
  thanks

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Tim 
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