Could Emacs be rewritten in Python?

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.1049776891.5548.python-list at python.org>,
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry  <shalehperry at attbi.com> wrote:
>
>and it is.  However the reason most of the emacs modes, vim syntax
>definitions, etc all don't quite work is they are regex based.  To
>really get where the structure editor needs to be would require a
>parser for each item type.  Not a trivial task.

That's why we're using Python.  ;-)
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