I appreciate your thoughtful comment. As somebody who's spent the past year writing console-based applications with Lua it was immediately obvious to me that a

I appreciate your thoughtful comment. As somebody who's spent the past year writing console-based applications with Lua it was immediately obvious to me that antirez's code was both clean and useful - and that it could be a lot better with "scripting". I've seen a few other forks which are also going down that round, perhaps yours is the most interesting of those! Although I've never thought to write an editor having this functional base upon which to build allowed me to get started and I've been enjoying the process. (I write code in emacs, and reply to email in vim. So I use both editors. Nothing else though.)