From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:C70:editor-people Newsgroups: fa.editor-p Title: Extension languages Article-I.D.: ucb.1798 Posted: Thu Aug 19 09:10:02 1982 Received: Sat Aug 21 04:53:14 1982 >From WUTS@USC-ECLC Thu Aug 19 00:44:47 1982 I have been using Emacs for a while now and really like its extensibility. I have also written and read my share of Teco code, but still do not feel comfortable with it. I have heard of Lisp based Emacs, but I'm not sure that Lisp is much less obscure that Teco. The point of this all is that I may be writing an editor for an IBM 4341 and am considering making the extension language something Pascal-like. I thinking about making the top level a Pascal interpreter with the obvious extensions to make editing possible. I.e. add real string types and/or buffer types, etc. Does something like this exist somewhere? Are there any Emacs-like editors with a reasonable extension language? Am I in weeds or does this sound like a reasonable idea? Maurice Wuts [Editor's note: presumably, the Pascal-like dialect would also include dynamic binding of procedures to procedure names/incocations. JQJ]