From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo To: Keisuke Nishida Cc: guile-emacs@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Emacs Scheme interface Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 04:01:00 -0000 Message-id: <87n1njuww0.fsf@PC486.Niemitalo.LAN> References: X-SW-Source: 2000-q1/msg00063.html Keisuke Nishida writes: > It is easy to define point so that (point) returns a number, And I think it should be defined that way. > but mixing both normal imported functions and other special > versions such as the (point) mentioned above may be very > confusing. If a Lisp reference is needed, one can call (lisp-eval '(current-global-map)). > Some functions can be easily imported by always converting return > values to Scheme objects. Some may be difficult because modifying > the Lisp value is essential (e.g., keymaps). If Emacs Scheme treated keymaps as opaque objects like XEmacs does, that would be easier to solve. But I suppose RMS wouldn't approve that. > Some requires defining new Scheme object in onder to get proper > processing (e.g., buffers). That's right. They should probably also be associated with GOOPS classes. > People may define a new module (emacs api) (or whatever) > and put new definitions in it. IIRC, SCWM keeps its modules under (app scwm ...). Perhaps Emacs modules should be (app emacs ...). > Unfortunately, I don't have enough time to work on this for a while. > But let's start discussing. I would really like thread support in Emacs Scheme. Multiple threads should be able to process different buffers at the same time. Perhaps the "current buffer" should be thread-local.