ESA: A clim library for writing emacs-style applications

Robert Strandh Labri; David Murray; Troels Henriksen; Christophe Rhodes

doi:10.1145/1622123.1622150

ESA: A clim library for writing emacs-style applications

Robert Strandh Labri, David Murray, Troels Henriksen, Christophe Rhodes

University of Copenhagen

Abstract

We describe ESA (for Emacs-Style Application), a library for writing applications with an Emacs look-and-feel within the Common Lisp Interface Manager. The ESA library takes advantage of the layered design of CLIM to provide a command loop that uses Emacs-style multi-keystroke command invocation. ESA supplies other functionality for writing such applications such as a minibuffer for invoking extended commands and for supplying command arguments, Emacs-style keyboard macros and numeric arguments, file and buffer management, and more. ESA is currently used in two major CLIM applications: the Climacs text editor (and the Drei text gadget integrated with the McCLIM implementation), and the Gsharp score editor. This paper describes the features provided by ESA, gives some detail about their implementation, and suggests avenues for further work.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2007 International Lisp Conference, ILC '07
Publication date	27 Nov 2009
Article number	24
ISBN (Print)	9781595936189
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1622123.1622150
Publication status	Published - 27 Nov 2009
Event	2007 International Lisp Conference, ILC '07 - Cambridge, United Kingdom Duration: 1 Apr 2007 → 4 Apr 2007

Conference

Conference	2007 International Lisp Conference, ILC '07
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Cambridge
Period	01/04/2007 → 04/04/2007
Sponsor	Associaton of Lisp Users

Access to Document

10.1145/1622123.1622150

Cite this

@inproceedings{64f90aa957e24439af2622de01edbf5e,

title = "ESA: A clim library for writing emacs-style applications",

abstract = "We describe ESA (for Emacs-Style Application), a library for writing applications with an Emacs look-and-feel within the Common Lisp Interface Manager. The ESA library takes advantage of the layered design of CLIM to provide a command loop that uses Emacs-style multi-keystroke command invocation. ESA supplies other functionality for writing such applications such as a minibuffer for invoking extended commands and for supplying command arguments, Emacs-style keyboard macros and numeric arguments, file and buffer management, and more. ESA is currently used in two major CLIM applications: the Climacs text editor (and the Drei text gadget integrated with the McCLIM implementation), and the Gsharp score editor. This paper describes the features provided by ESA, gives some detail about their implementation, and suggests avenues for further work.",

author = "Labri, {Robert Strandh} and David Murray and Troels Henriksen and Christophe Rhodes",

year = "2009",

month = nov,

day = "27",

doi = "10.1145/1622123.1622150",

language = "English",

isbn = "9781595936189",

booktitle = "2007 International Lisp Conference, ILC '07",

note = "2007 International Lisp Conference, ILC '07 ; Conference date: 01-04-2007 Through 04-04-2007",

}

TY - GEN

T1 - ESA

T2 - 2007 International Lisp Conference, ILC '07

AU - Labri, Robert Strandh

AU - Murray, David

AU - Henriksen, Troels

AU - Rhodes, Christophe

PY - 2009/11/27

Y1 - 2009/11/27

N2 - We describe ESA (for Emacs-Style Application), a library for writing applications with an Emacs look-and-feel within the Common Lisp Interface Manager. The ESA library takes advantage of the layered design of CLIM to provide a command loop that uses Emacs-style multi-keystroke command invocation. ESA supplies other functionality for writing such applications such as a minibuffer for invoking extended commands and for supplying command arguments, Emacs-style keyboard macros and numeric arguments, file and buffer management, and more. ESA is currently used in two major CLIM applications: the Climacs text editor (and the Drei text gadget integrated with the McCLIM implementation), and the Gsharp score editor. This paper describes the features provided by ESA, gives some detail about their implementation, and suggests avenues for further work.

AB - We describe ESA (for Emacs-Style Application), a library for writing applications with an Emacs look-and-feel within the Common Lisp Interface Manager. The ESA library takes advantage of the layered design of CLIM to provide a command loop that uses Emacs-style multi-keystroke command invocation. ESA supplies other functionality for writing such applications such as a minibuffer for invoking extended commands and for supplying command arguments, Emacs-style keyboard macros and numeric arguments, file and buffer management, and more. ESA is currently used in two major CLIM applications: the Climacs text editor (and the Drei text gadget integrated with the McCLIM implementation), and the Gsharp score editor. This paper describes the features provided by ESA, gives some detail about their implementation, and suggests avenues for further work.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70450206883&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/1622123.1622150

DO - 10.1145/1622123.1622150

M3 - Article in proceedings

AN - SCOPUS:70450206883

SN - 9781595936189

BT - 2007 International Lisp Conference, ILC '07

Y2 - 1 April 2007 through 4 April 2007

ER -

ESA: A clim library for writing emacs-style applications

Abstract

Conference

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this