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From: hugo@griggs.dartmouth.edu
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Subject: Standalone Elisp?
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Date: 2 Aug 89 21:40:13 GMT
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Here's a question I bet you get a lot:

How hard would it be to remove from Emacs everyting but the ELisp
interpreter?  I want to build something around Elisp that is similar
in spirit to what you must be doing with Emacs/X, but maybe more
general (maybe not though, I don't know enough about emacs/X to
comment). 

I want to use Elisp for 3 reasons:

1) I am very confident that it works.
2) It is pretty small (compared to Common Lisp, or say, MIT scheme).
3) It has all that code for handling text, processes, and file I/O.

Thanks a bunch,
Pete
hugo@sunapee.dartmouth.edu