20 Jul
2025
20 Jul
'25
12:25 p.m.
I’ll throw in that Lugaru Software (which as been around forever) still maintains their
venerable Epsilon editor - which is a great product - and although it is roughly
considered to be an “Emacs” by key bindings and default behaviors, underneath it’s all in
the ELL language instead of Lisp. And EEL is essentially C.
If you prefer C to Lisp (oh, the cries and gnashing of teeth!) like many people do, it’s a
very interesting product.
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Jeffrey H. Johnson
trnsz(a)pobox.com
On Sun, Jul 20, 2025, at 3:59 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
On the milder topic of editor preferences, I'm a vi(m) user but employ
Emacs bindings in readline applications and maintained my own fork of mg
(microemacs) for a while, to see how the other half lived. I discovered
that a much bigger chunk of Emacs advocacy is predicated on its
"finger-feel"[1] and some other built-in features than upon Lisp
scriptability.