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Apex: My Editor Project

Lots of people were intrigued by my reference to my editor project. So I’m sharing the current language design with you folks. I’m calling it Apex, as a homage to the brilliant Acme, which is the editor that comes closest to what I’d like to be able to use.

So. The language for Apex is sort of a combination of TECO and Sam. Once the basic system is working, I’m planning on a UI that’s modeled on Acme. For now, I’m going to focus on the language.

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