About elnode - EmacsLisp version of node.js

http://nic.ferrier.me.uk/blog/2010_10/elnode

by nicferrier • 15 years ago

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swah• 15 years ago

We have gone too far.

nicferrier6• 15 years ago

nah. what can be done will be done. besides... it has it's uses.

of course, I would say that.

pavpanchekha• 15 years ago

Who wants Emacs on Eggshells?

dougws• 15 years ago

This is extremely cool. There have been a few other Emacs webserver implementations, but none showing this much promise/active development. I'm really excited to see where this goes!

peterb• 15 years ago

I can't wait to see this progress when emacs gets lexical scope and threading. Having a lisp machine as an asynchronous web server is amazing.

nicferrier6• 15 years ago

emacs already has lexical scope.

https://github.com/nicferrier/elnode/blob/master/elnode.el#L...

that's how you turn it on. you need a fairly recent version.

My bitbucket repo is here https://bitbucket.org/nic/emacs

but of course, the official bzr repo is good as well

p4bl0• 15 years ago

Yep, this can already be done using Scheme (Racket or Guile) and Geiser.

But it's still very cool to have that in Emacs Lisp. And it will be "natively" here when Emacs Lisp is replaced by Guile 8-).

icey• 15 years ago

This could be nice for remote pair programming without having to do screen sharing.

For instance, the person on the non-typing end could see the edit stream over their iPad.

qdot76367• 15 years ago

There are session sharing packages for emacs, like rudel - http://emacswiki.org/emacs/Rudel

However, on machines that are emacsless (at least, without having to ssh somewhere), yeah, this could definitely be nice.

nicferrier6• 15 years ago

And that's exactly what I'm working on right now. It won't quite be an etherpad because doing constant diff is not a trivial thing... but bi-directional "live" editing session over the web will be possible.

I am a couple of weeks away from having something.

gruseom• 15 years ago

The author brings up the idea of an Etherpad for Emacs. I agree that this would be useful. I wonder how tricky it would be to get right.

bretthoerner• 15 years ago

Bam. http://rudel.sourceforge.net/

naner• 15 years ago

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CollaborativeEditing

It has been tried a few times.

nicferrier6• 15 years ago

It has. One of the things that prompted me to do this is that all the other attempts seem constrained in ways that were not really useful to me.

An HTTP based tool will never offer the full power of emacs at the remote end. But it could be more than enough for most circumstances.

probably• 15 years ago

Cool stuff! But diary format is proprietary?

bergie• 15 years ago

Proprietary can mean other things than actual license. If a format is only supported by one application, it can still be considered proprietary.

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