Fascinating. I'm familiar with plugins for writing
major extensions. But what about writing small macros?

Is there a "macro" capability in FreeRide, or are
plugins the new-world way of customizing behaviors?

-------- Original Message --------
From: John Gabriele <jmg3000 / gmail.com>
Reply-To: ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org

On 4/29/06, Eric Armstrong <Eric.Armstrong / sun.com> wrote:
 >
 > Hmm. The only thing that turned me off to Emacs was the
 > weird command names--and probably the lisp-ness, had I
 > gotten close enough to it to get into that.
 >
 > Which gets me thinking...
 >
 > Ruby is Lisp-like...Emacs is based on Lisp...
 > There really ought to be an editor based on Ruby...
 >
I believe FreeRIDE is written in Ruby, as are the plug-ins 
you might write for it.

 > ...it could start with new user interface semantics
 >     that adhere to the standards that have evolved
 >     over the last 35 years
 >
 > ...that would make it easy to use right from the start
 >
 > ...it could use Ruby, and be extended with Ruby, so
 >     it could be customized and evolved using the
 >     rather terrific language that Ruby is
 >
Again -- I think more good things should be happening with 
FreeRIDE in the near future, especially after the wxRuby 
rewrite is done (and there's been good progress on that 
front lately).