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Does this look like 1978 to you? <https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/ https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/>

by teddyh 7mo ago

PhilipRoman 7mo ago
Don't get me wrong, I don't mind old aesthetics, but... yes? Well I wasn't exactly alive in 1978 but all the screenshots look like they are at least 20 years old
- jbstack 7mo ago
  Firstly, the original comment was about UI rather than aesthetics. Secondly, as with everything else in Emacs, you can customise the appearance however you want. Those screenshots are from vanilla Emacs which is admittedly rather ugly. Most people heavily customise, or use an Emacs distro like Spacemacs (https://www.spacemacs.org/ https://www.spacemacs.org/) or Doom (https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs?tab=readme-ov-file https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs?tab=readme-ov-file) which have more sensible default appearance configs.
- teddyh 7mo ago
  20 years ago was in 2006, not 1978.
internet_points 7mo ago
I love Emacs, and while that tour doesn't quite look 1978, it sure doesn't look 2026 either. Maybe somewhere in the middle.. yup, 2002 seems about right. And for some reason, most of the screenshots on that page are in super low res, e.g. I see https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/images/gnus-small.png https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/images/gnus-small.pn... instead of https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/images/gnus.png https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/images/gnus.png , I really don't see why they'd want to make it look even worse. And then on the other hand you have people like Nicolas Rougier https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fpbg8rzynfn9e1.png https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fp... or Álvaro Ramírez https://xenodium.com/awesome-emacs-on-macos https://xenodium.com/awesome-emacs-on-macos who show how great it can really look.

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Does this look like 1978 to you? <https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/ https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/>

by teddyh 7mo ago

Does this look like 1978 to you? <https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/ https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/>

PhilipRoman 7mo ago
Don't get me wrong, I don't mind old aesthetics, but... yes? Well I wasn't exactly alive in 1978 but all the screenshots look like they are at least 20 years old
- jbstack 7mo ago
  Firstly, the original comment was about UI rather than aesthetics. Secondly, as with everything else in Emacs, you can customise the appearance however you want. Those screenshots are from vanilla Emacs which is admittedly rather ugly. Most people heavily customise, or use an Emacs distro like Spacemacs (https://www.spacemacs.org/ https://www.spacemacs.org/) or Doom (https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs?tab=readme-ov-file https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs?tab=readme-ov-file) which have more sensible default appearance configs.
- teddyh 7mo ago
  20 years ago was in 2006, not 1978.
internet_points 7mo ago
I love Emacs, and while that tour doesn't quite look 1978, it sure doesn't look 2026 either. Maybe somewhere in the middle.. yup, 2002 seems about right. And for some reason, most of the screenshots on that page are in super low res, e.g. I see https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/images/gnus-small.png https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/images/gnus-small.pn... instead of https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/images/gnus.png https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/images/gnus.png , I really don't see why they'd want to make it look even worse. And then on the other hand you have people like Nicolas Rougier https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fpbg8rzynfn9e1.png https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fp... or Álvaro Ramírez https://xenodium.com/awesome-emacs-on-macos https://xenodium.com/awesome-emacs-on-macos who show how great it can really look.