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Emacs is actually having a bit of a renaissance - ever since package.el came out and became widely adopted, Emacs adoption seems to have increased significantly
by benaiah 11y ago
Emacs is actually having a bit of a renaissance - ever since package.el came out and became widely adopted, Emacs adoption seems to have increased significantly, and Emacs development is quite active these days.
- gkya 11y agoAnd 25 is near and with xwidget support, i.e. embedding things like a Webkit instance in a buffer. I guess I will be able to "exec emacs --debug-init" in my .xsession soon.
- rekado 11y agoThere is EXWM, an X window manager for Emacs: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm Here are some screenshots: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm/wiki/Screenshots https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm/wiki/Screenshots
- snaky 11y agoActually you can - http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/new-window-manager.html http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/new-window-manager.... All you need to do is to set up a couple of hotkeys for things that Emacs cannot do (yet), like (start-process "" nil "xdg-open" "http://some.flashy.javascript.website" http://some.flashy.javascript.website")
- gpderetta 11y agoI'm eagerly waiting for the day I can use emacs as my window manager.
- gkya 11y agoYou're waiting for a day in the past: See EXWM, links in a sibling comment. With it, you can use emacs as your window manager already.
- gpderetta 11y agoThat would be awesome! Is it actually stable and/or usable?
- gkya 11y agoI tried it very early and it was unstable, but I'm following its development, and it seems that it'll be stable shortly. I'm using ratpoison nowadays, though I'll switch to it when it's stable enough and emacs gets multithreading.