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I often wonder what a modern emacs would look like. This feel like a step in that direction.

constantcrying 4y ago
To be fair it is far closer to a modern vim (modal and with a lot of similar mappings), which also gives it quite a bit of competition.
User23 4y ago
Look at Nicolas Rougier’s GitHub if you want to see what a “modern” Emacs looks like.
- teddyh 4y ago
  I assume you mean https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs#readme https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs#readme
  - User23 4y ago
    Yes. Also https://github.com/rougier/elegant-emacs https://github.com/rougier/elegant-emacs and pretty much everything else in his Emacs section.
kleiba 4y ago
Define "modern".
justinhj 4y ago
Emacs is under constant improvement and so are it’s many packages. Emacs looks like modern Emacs
- trenchgun 4y ago
  Doom Emacs looks like modern Emacs.
  - justinhj 4y ago
    Not a fan to be honest. I stick with vanilla so when it breaks I can read the manual. Although I know Doom works great and makes a lot of people happy, it doesn’t do anything you can’t do yourself by downloading packages and configuring them to your needs.
    - jcpst 4y ago
      That is true. But it’s pretty overwhelming for a lot of folks. I was a spacemacs user. I tried to rebuild what I liked about it. It was a lot, and I didn’t quite get it there. I finally found a good compromise though. I started over with this confing: https://github.com/susam/emfy https://github.com/susam/emfy From there, I only needed a handful of packages and a few dozen lines of config to get to an editor that was comfy.
thom 4y ago
A modern Emacs would look like VSCode with an API that was lower level, with less built-in UI, a focus on pure text buffers, and incubated for a few years to build out more of a framework so every extension doesn’t feel completely unrelated. It’s unlikely VSCode will become that, but it’s even more unlikely to be a text editor pitched to Vim users.

To be fair it is far closer to a modern vim (modal and with a lot of similar mappings), which also gives it quite a bit of competition.

User23 4y ago

Look at Nicolas Rougier’s GitHub if you want to see what a “modern” Emacs looks like.

teddyh 4y ago
I assume you mean https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs#readme https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs#readme
- User23 4y ago
  Yes. Also https://github.com/rougier/elegant-emacs https://github.com/rougier/elegant-emacs and pretty much everything else in his Emacs section.

kleiba 4y ago

Define "modern".

justinhj 4y ago

Emacs is under constant improvement and so are it’s many packages. Emacs looks like modern Emacs

trenchgun 4y ago
Doom Emacs looks like modern Emacs.
- justinhj 4y ago
  Not a fan to be honest. I stick with vanilla so when it breaks I can read the manual. Although I know Doom works great and makes a lot of people happy, it doesn’t do anything you can’t do yourself by downloading packages and configuring them to your needs.
  - jcpst 4y ago
    That is true. But it’s pretty overwhelming for a lot of folks. I was a spacemacs user. I tried to rebuild what I liked about it. It was a lot, and I didn’t quite get it there. I finally found a good compromise though. I started over with this confing: https://github.com/susam/emfy https://github.com/susam/emfy From there, I only needed a handful of packages and a few dozen lines of config to get to an editor that was comfy.

thom 4y ago

A modern Emacs would look like VSCode with an API that was lower level, with less built-in UI, a focus on pure text buffers, and incubated for a few years to build out more of a framework so every extension doesn’t feel completely unrelated. It’s unlikely VSCode will become that, but it’s even more unlikely to be a text editor pitched to Vim users.