How much would you give to a non-profit to rewrite emacs in scheme?
hapless: Climacs and Hemlock have existed for many years, but there's been no flood of users.  Both are high-quality emacs-like editors written in common lisp; both have many extensions for development, mail, news etc.I can't imagine a donation-supported project going from scratch would be substantially more successful just because it used Scheme instead of CL.Climacs:
http://common-lisp.net/project/climacs/CMUCL Hemlock:
http://www.cons.org/cmucl/hemlock/Portable Hemlock:
http://common-lisp.net/project/phemlock/P.S.I agree with your goals: I really don't enjoy elisp at all.  It reminds me just enough of CL and Scheme to be sick at what it lacks.