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The only thing missing from emacs is some (opengl) 2d surface api like the browser’s canvas, to rival the rest of the OS.
by skydhash 1y ago
The only thing missing from emacs is some (opengl) 2d surface api like the browser’s canvas, to rival the rest of the OS.
- iLemming 1y agoAlthough I like the idea of having a full-blown graphics engine built into Emacs, I personally don't suffer (at least not so badly) from not having a real web browser inside of Emacs. I can navigate my browsing history¹; I can even (to a certain degree) control my actual browser from Emacs - going through the list of tabs, jumping to a selected tab, extracting content from a tab, inserting the current URL at point, etc. Some of it can be done with AppleScript (on Mac), some of it can be done using Linux tools like xdotool. I browse HN and Reddit in Org-mode; I've recently built a package to search through HN². I don't really need to jump back and forth between my editor and my browser (or many other apps) all the time. ___ ¹ https://github.com/agzam/browser-hist.el https://github.com/agzam/browser-hist.el ² https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44264368 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44264368