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Can anyone recommend an editor like Emacs that doesn’t use LISP? I find the syntax to be an abomination.
by new_realist 7y ago
Can anyone recommend an editor like Emacs that doesn’t use LISP? I find the syntax to be an abomination.
- NateEag 7y agoIt is arguable that no such editor exists. Take away the Lisp and you are already very unlike Emacs.
- TylerE 7y agoIt's possible to write a language that is arguably a lisp, but without sexprs. Elixir is one that comes to mind (It has the "big" Lisp things, like hygienic macros). Actually, Erlangs concurrency model might well work very well for emacs, since you can spawn off hundreds of independent tasks with close to zero overhead, and use all available cores to run them on.
- NateEag 7y agoA good point. Sweet-expressions might be an example of such a language implemented as a Lisp reader macro, in fact. https://dwheeler.com/readable/sweet-expressions.html https://dwheeler.com/readable/sweet-expressions.html
- brians 7y agoYou could try Edwin, based on Scheme. Yi, in Haskell. Good luck.
- mindB 7y agoYou could try leo. Definitely inspired by emacs in many ways. https://www.leoeditor.com/ https://www.leoeditor.com/
- dmortin 7y agoIf you use it for a while you get used to it. It's just another programming language.
- celeritascelery 7y agoSecond this. The parenthesis look abhorrent because they are foreign, But that is where the real power of lisp resides.