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That being said, while reading the "Why Zed?" page[1] I kept thinking "emacs can already do that" all the way. IMHO people who think "emacs can already do th
by borplk 13y ago
That being said, while reading the "Why Zed?" page[1] I kept thinking "emacs can already do that" all the way.
IMHO people who think "emacs can already do that" will think that regardless of what the topic being discussed is.
"Oh here ... I have made a plane that flies"
"emacs can already do that"
classic.
- ertdfgcb 13y agoThat's because emacs can already do anything, if you're willing to learn how. Still though, it's not a very useful thing to say.
- simias 13y agoThat wasn't my point really. Of course emacs lisp is turing complete so yeah, you could probably pilot an airplaine using an emacs AI, it's still pretty far fetched though. On the other hand the features described in the page I linked are mostly already built into emacs, at most you need to flip a couple customization switches to get the same idea. Basically: remove the toolbars, enable ido-mode, use tramp for remote editing. The splitting thing is built in although you'll need to redefine a couple functions to get the exact behaviour shown in the gif (nothing very fancy though).