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The goals of this project are as follows.
Emacsy will use Guile Scheme to make it easy to embed within C and C++ programs.
Emacsy should be easy enough to learn that the uninitiated may easily make parametric changes, e.g., key ’a’ now does what key ’b’ does and vice versa. Programmers in any language ought to be able to make new commands for themselves. And old Emacs hands should be able to happily rely on old idioms and function names to change most anything.
Emacsy should be configured with a sensible set of defaults (opinions). Out of the box, it is not tabla rasa, a blank slate, where the user must choose every detail, every time. However, if the user wants to choose every detail, they can.
It wouldn’t be Emacs-like if you couldn’t tinker with it.
New commands can be defined in Guile Scheme or C/C++.
That is to say, commands can call other commands. No special arrangements must be considered in the general case.
The core functions that must be called by the embedding application will be few and straightforward to use.