On 4/28/06, Henri Lesourd <address@hidden> wrote:There is something like that in TeXmacs, but it's not as sophisticated
David MENTRE wrote:
Henri Lesourd <address@hidden> writes:Argh ;-) !!! This improvement is hard, and even impossible to
lot of annoying details plague the life of users. As farNumber one for me:
as the users I know react, the main problems (stated using
an approximate order of importance) are :
* slowness of TeXmacs, the interface is not reactive enough, especially
compared to Emacs.
do --stricto sensu--, because TeXmacs does (and will always do)
much more calculations than emacs...
This is really the kind of area where *some* improvements can
be expected, and where an increase in the speed of machines
should do the rest !
I think for most users, Emacs like functions such as "C-h c" and "C-h
w" is of most importance, since they enables the users to get
immediate help on "what key is for the purpose of...", and "What's the
function of this hotkey?". And I didn't find anything about changing
keybindings in TeXmacs.
Lots of things are hardcoded. For example, the font "fireflysung". ItTrue.
takes too much to add a new font to TeXmacs.
I guess there is something fatal in Guile. Scheme is clean, but itMost of the things you need are standardized as Scheme SRFIs. It is
lacks too many features of elisp and common lisp that will make the
user comfortable. Even with librep, users can use "describe" and
"apropos" to know "what is what", that's implemented by all
implementations of Common Lisp and librep, but I found this function
is not present in Guile.
Maybe Scheme is a bad choice. The purpose of it is for education. I
see the Scheme community is confused with different standardization
problems.
But why not Common Lisp? We don't like a thousand differentAnother problem with Common Lisp is that it is really heavywheight.
interface with things like hash tables...
Comparing SCWM--the Scheme Contraint Window Manager and Sawfish, youHere, we (could :-) go into the debate of Scheme vs. Common Lisp. I would
can find this problem. Scheme is not really for use in a real world.
We don't want to implement another Common Lisp with Scheme again.
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