On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 09:45 -0600, Robert Morelli wrote:
> So, my dream would be for someone to build a text editor with the same 
> basic philosophy as Emacs,
> cloning a good bit of its core functionality, but built on a sound 
> architecture, and capable of dealing with
> the demands of modern complex software systems, like IDEs. Roughly 
> speaking, Emacs built on top of
> a "real" language like OCaml, and with the capabilities of modern gui 
> systems, networks, work flows,
> etc. in mind.

Just for the sake of bibliography, this reminds me of efuns [1] and
Chamo [2].

[1] http://pauillac.inria.fr/cdrom/prog/unix/efuns/eng.htm
[2] http://home.gna.org/cameleon/ 

Cheers,
 David
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