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Using Guile for Emacs
[LWN subscriber-only content] Emacs is, famously, an editor—perhaps far more—that is extensible using its own variant of the Lisp programming language, Emacs Lisp (or Elisp). This year's edition of EmacsConf, which is an annual "gathering" that has been held online for the past five years, had two separate talks on using a different variant of Lisp, Guile, for Emacs.
Scheme/Guile can be easily accessed from within Elisp, which was shown by calling the Guile version function and by producing a Scheme rational number from integer division. Templeton reviewed the IRC log and Etherpad, noting that they had expected the Common Lisp piece to be the most controversial (it " would piss people off") because it is not part of either the Emacs or Guile communities. Templeton knows that current Emacs maintainer Eli Zaretskii is concerned about cross-platform compatibility, so Guile-Emacs needs to be " rock solid" in that department before any kind of upstreaming can be contemplated.
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