[Cuis-dev] Emacs & Smalltalk

[Philip Bernhart]

Hi Hernan,

I'm a somewhat regular user of emacs. Hell, I even write
E-Mails with it. Well, emacs is a lisp with an editor attached
to it, it's a live-coding environment in some way, maybe a little
less as regular Smalltalk environment.

I heard that it shares some ideas of the lisp machines, but I
never used one to confirm or deny that.

Emacs has the tendency to be not just an editor but to be THE
interface to edit anything which could be called "text" or
represented as "text". One common symptom of this idea is
it's language interfaces, like running a REPL inside emacs
for lisp, scheme, ruby, python or any language you dare to
implement.

For Smalltalk there was the "shampoo" package which let
people connect to a remote image and edit there code, send
workspace contents for evaluation there and so on:

https://github.com/dmatveev/shampoo

But it's an unfinished project and a couple of years out of
date. It also never really felt stable, when I played with it.


These are my 0.02 EUR,
Philip

Hernan Wilkinson via Cuis-dev <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> writes:

> Hi,
>  I've never used Emacs, I just run it some times and did not even have time
> to read the manual, etc., but after seeing this video: "Emacs and
> Montessori Philosophy" (https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/montessori/) and
> knowing that emacs runs on lisp and that you can modify emacs from emacs
> using lisp, I could not avoid relating it with Smalltalk...
>  Does anybody have experience with Emacs? Is there something you can say
> about Emacs & Smalltalk?
>
>  Thanks!
>  Hernan.
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