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Not intended to be a port, but I occasionally search for an editor that is customizable in Python to the extent Emacs is.

Leo Editor (http://leoeditor.com) fits that bill. It's been around since the 90's (and the web page looks like it's from the 90's). Even though it has many users, the documentation is quite poor. If I had another life to live, I would learn it well and improve the docs - and then port over everything I like in Emacs to it.

It is sorely in need of more tutorials. You'll find some in various people's blog posts, but not enough. I know enough of it to know that it is very powerful, but not enough to use it well day-to-day.

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That looks interesting thanks for sharing. Too bad it wasn't meant to be run on macOS.

According to http://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2017/07/15/these-weeks-in-rema... it's running on 32-bit macOS. I don't know if Remacs is 32-bit-only on all platforms.

This is an interesting project and I wish them well. I have no opinion on Rust at the moment, but I do see this as part of a general trend towards safer languages.

>Too bad it wasn't meant to be run on macOS.

What makes you say that?

It is stated in their _install-readme_ on github.

Interesting - I wonder what dependency they could have that prevents its use on MacOS. I run it on both Linux and Windows just fine. At the end of the day, it's just a Python program.

Page loads fast and does the job though. Seriously underrated way to do the web.

Yeah, but unfortunately the content is not very helpful. Too many quotes on how it is the best editor in the world, yet too little showing it.

Sublime uses a Python API, though the docs are also not extensive

>Sublime uses a Python API, though the docs are also not extensive

But how extensible is Sublime itself? For example, in Emacs I can do network connections (e.g. Gnus). Will Sublime allow this? Can I make a Tetris clone in Sublime? Both are doable in Leo.

AFAIK Sublime gives you a full Python, including network access. The problem is that you're limited to a few predefined hooks where you can integrate into Sublime's UI, so good luck making it do something that doesn't boil down to editing text.

Is Sublime itself written in Python? Or is it mostly C++ with some Python hooks? If the latter, it'll be quite limited.

Leo is all Python, and you have access to all the internals. I'm sure there are design decisions in Leo that will make changing some aspects hard, though.

Sublime is C++.

I too have done a similar search and generally failed. I found Leo too when looking for a new editor - it's great but somewhat tied to the outliner model IIRC?

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