- Lisp Free x Emacs like - Lightweight x Electron Contradictions. Writing ones own editor is a bit of a rite of passage though. So, on that front, Congratulations!
dry water powder. just add water
Show HN: Elecxzy – A lightweight, Lisp-free Emacs-like editor in Electron
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#12Just to be clear: you say by ‘dropping’ lisp you’re keeping it lightweight but it’s based on electron? So what does ‘lightweight’ mean in your opinion?
What answer to that question and in this situation would make any sense?
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#13I guess the "eight megabytes and constantly swapping" meme is now lost given Electron.
Egacs
Re: Show HN: Elecxzy – A lightweight, Lisp-free Emacs-like editor in Electron
#14With respect, you should learn Lisp - it will allow you to turn Emacs into whatever you want. In my opinion just keeping the Emacs keybindings but dropping all the other advantages of Emacs is missing the point entirely, and using Electron instead is just - as the saying goes - "adding insult to injury".
Re: Show HN: Elecxzy – A lightweight, Lisp-free Emacs-like editor in Electron
#15If you want an example of an actually lightweight modern desktop editor to take inspiration from, try zed.dev
Zed is written in Rust, insanely fast, consumes virtually no resources, has an Emacs input mode (which I use exclusively) and despite not having the greatest support for Emacs LISP (only via limited third party extension, its singular flaw) has replaced emacs-ng as my daily driver.
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#16Re: Show HN: Elecxzy – A lightweight, Lisp-free Emacs-like editor in Electron
#17Just to be clear: you say by ‘dropping’ lisp you’re keeping it lightweight but it’s based on electron? So what does ‘lightweight’ mean in your opinion?
What answer to that question and in this situation would make any sense?
The motivation/justification from the author why they believe removing lisp but adding Electron somehow sums up to being "lightweight"?
Maybe the author thought of the UX/baggage/legacy or something else when they thought about "lightweight", rather than how much memory/cpu cycles something is using? Not sure, but maybe there is a more charitable reading of it out there.
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#18ようこそ
As an aside. What were the CJK IME issues you resolved? Was it related to win32 emacs IME issues?
Re: Show HN: Elecxzy – A lightweight, Lisp-free Emacs-like editor in Electron
#19What I need is an emacs with more lisp and less javascript. If you want a really lean emacs-like editor, there is always mg and microemacs. Edit: not trying to be a dick or a gatekeeper. This is HN, all ideas should be welcome including the one that dont make sense to some people. And always interesting to see contributions from Japan.
What javascript is in emacs? I often find myself wishing eww had javascript support, a lot of the web is unuseable as it stands.
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#20How do you make a electron app light weight ?
What are the best practices for windows ?