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Imagine a world where your terminal isn’t emulating a TTY from fifty years ago. Gary Bernhardt gave a talk about this in 2012[0]. [0] https://www.destroyallsof

• tonyarkles 6y ago
  Pretty cool talk! I love some of the features he's added! https://imgur.com/Gtytll1 https://imgur.com/Gtytll1 An interesting thing that often gets forgotten or missed is that Emacs doesn't depend on a conventional TTY to run. It's already capable of displaying images either in separate buffers or inline. From Gary's talk there, my thoughts would be that a number of the features he's put in there would: a) be potentially better-served as CLI tools instead of baked directly into the IDE, with well-defined inputs and outputs. I have no problem imagining use cases for e.g. the crash navigation stuff outside of an editor (perhaps as part of an error-handling dashboard). b) likely already be possible to build in non-terminal versions of Emacs, without having to design your own terminal and editor from scratch. By no means do I think Emacs is a perfect editor, but I'm also very cautious when pondering "do we rebuild from scratch"-type questions. I'm always keeping my eye on other editors and IDEs, and with varying levels of difficulty, I haven't really come across too many useful things that wouldn't be possible to do within the current Emacs/Elisp environment. Awkward, maybe.