Could Emacs be rewritten in Python?

[Patrick K. O'Brien]

"Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)" <ckea25d02 at sneakemail.com> writes:

> Christian Tanzer wrote:
> > This has nothing to do with touching point but how cursor
> > movements behave. For example, searching doesn't work properly in some
> > cases unless you let `inhibit-point-motion-hooks` to a true value.
> 
> Er... if it has nothing to do with touching point, how
> come you have to fiddle with some global that has 'point'
> in its name?
> 
> > But there isn't that much difference between an attribute of a buffer
> > object (in the Python sense) and a buffer-locale variable (in the
> > Emacs sense).
> 
> The difference is that the buffer (or some other data structure
> from which the buffer can be easily reached) would be an explicit
> argument.

I suppose one could bind attributes (current frame, current buffer,
point) to a module and then import that module everywhere that needed
access to these attributes, rather than passing the attributes as
parameters.  So the module would act as a global, but with a structure
that could be navigated.  Just a thought.

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Patrick K. O'Brien
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