One of the things I am really looking forward to, given a natively threaded Lisp implementation, is the possibility of writing, acquiring or just plain waiting for a text editor that can be customized in a slightly saner language than elisp

One of the things I am really looking forward to, given a natively threaded Lisp implementation, is the possibility of writing, acquiring or just plain waiting for a text editor that can be customized in a slightly saner language than elisp. In particular, right now, I would like a comint mode that either (1) only retains n line sof output, or (2) (preferably) doesn't eat 30% of my cpu appending lines to the comint buffer when it gets large. Where large is around 250k lines, at the moment.

I hate having to reboot my emacs.

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