Re: Emacs Scheme interface

[Keisuke Nishida <kxn30 at po dot cwru dot edu>]

Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <tosi@ees2.oulu.fi> writes:

> If a Lisp reference is needed, one can call
> (lisp-eval '(current-global-map)).

I don't think it is a good interface.  It is harder to understand and
may not work in the future.

I think a better way to get around this is to define a GOOPS class
for keymaps and define suitable procedures which call Lisp functions
appropriately as you may think in your mind.  If (current-global-map)
always returns a list, we can't do that.

> IIRC, SCWM keeps its modules under (app scwm ...).  Perhaps Emacs
> modules should be (app emacs ...).

Is that a convention among Guile applications?  If there is no such
convention yet, we should talk to the Guile team.  In my opinion,
such a declaration like (use-modules (app emacs majormode scheme))
is a little bit long...  An Guile application often adds its own
primitives (e.g., lisp-eval) and the scheme programs does not work
with other applications, which means the scheme programs should be
installed separately from Guile's shared directory, so omitting
`app' will not hurt anyone.

> I would really like thread support in Emacs Scheme.  Multiple
> threads should be able to process different buffers at the same
> time.  Perhaps the "current buffer" should be thread-local.

Me too, but as long as we use the current Lisp functions, it may be
hard to work around...  Have you tried Guile's multithread supoprt
with Guile Emacs?  Does it work well?