Could Emacs be rewritten in Python?

[Neil Hodgson]

Alexander Schmolck:

> He certainly knows about Emacs (have a look at the index of his book), but
I
> guess obtaining patents and attracting attention as some sort of visionary
is
> unnecessarily complicated by pointing out the prior art yourself. And
although
> the most crucial (and brilliant) idea, incremental search, is nicked (and
> uncredited on his webpage),

   Priority for incremental search is uncertain - Jef Raskin has been
pushing LEAP since at least the mid 80s with the Swyftcard and Canon Cat
products. The earliest publication reference found in a quick google is
November 1985. When did EMACS get incremental search?
http://archaic-apples.shauny.de/files/cat/canon.html

   Neil