Claus Reinke
This was followed by Ermacs, a concurrent Emacs clone written completely in Erlang. Ermacs is fairly complete – it has major modes for Erlang and Scheme programming, a built-in Erlang shell, and support for efficiently editing large files. However, once the core editor was complete, it was obvious that GNU Emacs has an incredibly large set of wonderful features, and that extending Ermacs to include “enough” of them was completely out of the question. The lessons learned from Ermacs lead to Distel,..
how is Yi going to avoid that trap?
Here's the plan for world domination: * Many features are going to be written/replicated as haskell libraries anyway, for usage as independent libraries. * Make sure gluing code is relatively easy I frankly suspect that haskell is a lot more powerful than erlang, and therefore it will be way easier to write code for Yi than Ermacs. For example, Ben Moseley has written a rudimentary Dired mode for Yi in about a week (I think), with no prior knowledge of Yi. The module is now 347 lines long (including blanks and comments) Also, I suspect haskell will become more popular than erlang, and the contributions to the respective editor of choice proportional. Cheers, JP.