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So weird to see this at #1 since I was researching this exact topic last night. My idea is a fully scriptable (Racket or CL) editor with modern package management system. A tiny C core would handle rendering (curses, etc.). Very cool write up though!

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As an alternative to ncurses, I encourage you to look at termbox[1]. It's small, minimal, and very robust in my experience. (As a side note, the author also wrote a text editor in Go that uses it.)

[1] https://github.com/nsf/termbox

I'll check it out. Thanks!

A fully-scriptable editor (not in CL but emacs-lisp is pretty close) with a modern package management system is pretty much just emacs+melpa

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