[racket-dev] Project Idea to port Paredit mode to DrRacket.

Asumu Takikawa wrote at 06/08/2013 05:26 PM:
> (maybe you can port paredit by replacing the emacs text buffer
>   manipulation function calls with method calls into these interfaces)
>    

If you wanted to make it even more cool... One of the original goals of 
Guile (a Scheme implementation that was once intended to be the new GNU 
language, including for Emacs) was to implement backward-compatibility 
interpreter for existing Emacs Lisp add-ons code.  If someone made a 
Racket "#lang emacs-lisp" that used DrRacket text buffers -- even if 
only a small subset of Emacs Lisp operations -- I think that would earn 
them some kudos, besides being a fun exercise for Racket's language 
support.  (The hardest part might be translating some of the Emacs Lisp 
dynamically-scoped variables into Racket parameters.  You don't need the 
dynamic scoping for most of them, though, but you have to decide which 
ones.)

Neil V.