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by baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id JAA09221
for icon-group-addresses; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 09:33:48 -0700 (MST)
Message-Id: <199812101633.JAA09221@baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 09:28:56 -0700
From: swampler@noao.edu (Steve Wampler)
Subject: Re: is icon embaddable
To: mw@wierdlmpc.msci.memphis.edu
Cc: icon-group@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
Status: RO
Mate Wierdl wrote:
> I am not sure I can ask the right question: is it possible to embed
> icon in another language. An editor program's maintainers try to
> figure out what program they should try to use as a "configuration"
> language. I guess they mean as (e)elisp is used in Emacs. The editor
> is written in C++. They had perl, tcl and python and perhaps scheme
> as candidates.
Mate -
A *long* time ago, William Mitchell (now whm@newmonics.com) wrote
'ice' - Icon Embedded in Emacs, where Icon replaced LISP as the
configuration language.
So, yes, what you want to do is possible. Perhaps William remembers
enough to provide some pointers...
--
Steve Wampler - swampler@gemini.edu [Gemini 8m Telescopes Project (under AURA)]
The gods that smiled at your birth are now laughing openly. (Fortune Cookie)