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I went down the rabbit hole mostly as an ideological thing. Everything I do with a computer that isn't video or shopping (so anything that has anything to do wi
by bjoli 6y ago
I went down the rabbit hole mostly as an ideological thing. Everything I do with a computer that isn't video or shopping (so anything that has anything to do with being productive) is centered around the idea of navigating, reading and/or manipulating text.
Most tools today seem to try their best to destroy that experience. Emacs does not. My main gripe is that Emacs isn't enough of an operating system. I don't like having to leave. The thought of an expanded Emacs with a unified GUI centered around text is for me almost a wet dream.
- fredsir 6y agoI have been running EXWM (emacs window manager) on top of GNU Guix for a few weeks now, and while it’s not perfect, it’s the closest I’ve come yet. I also use eshell as my default shell, so except for when running icecat (Firefox), next (Common Lisp based webbrowser), mpv for the odd video, or alacrity when eshell is not enough, everything is just emacs buffers and it’s actually great.
- gopiandcode 6y agoI have almost the same setup, except use the vterm emacs package as my backup shell instead of alacrity - while vterm doesn't integrate with emacs as well as eshell (no redirecting into buffers/calling elisp functions), I prefer it to an external shell, as I can keep my emacs bindings in the shell and share the kill ring.
- fredsir 6y agoThank you for mentioning vterm! It is just what I have been looking for!