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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 o
by 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.