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From: wmb@SUN.COM (Mitch Bradley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Forth window system interface
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Date: 8 Jan 90 23:08:15 GMT
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> I've seen Emacs-clones written in Forth (I got a copy of Forthmacs for the ST

Well, actually, the EMACS in Forthmacs isn't written in Forth.  It's
MicroEMACS (written in C) modified so that it can be called as a subroutine
from Forth, with some hooks for compiling Forth code directly from EMACS
buffers.  You can also mark a "region" in an EMACS buffer and compile
just that.  You can pop back and forth between Forth and EMACS without
losing the state of either.

> Why not a vi-clone ?

Please, no!  Aaaaargh!  vi has the most baroque command syntax of any
screen editor I know.  Let's not do anything to propagate it!

Okay, okay, I admit it.  I'm an EMACS fan.

Mitch (author of Forthmacs)