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Rather than using Emacs standalone, I like using ratpoison as the window manager. That way I can have a full screen Emacs and easily use other applications, too. Bonus points for not having to use the mouse for any of it.
Xmonad, Emacs, a terminal and Chrome pretty much do the same thing for me on Ubuntu desktop, possibly with a little less pain. Mostly mouse free operation, and easy resizing, swapping etc. If you want to learn Emacs, just jump in head first. Try and use it like a native. Just for kicks I'm trying to do the same with vi by forcing myself to use it for anything vaguely sysadmin related.
Rather than using Emacs standalone, I like using ratpoison as the window manager. That way I can have a full screen Emacs and easily use other applications, too. Bonus points for not having to use the mouse for any of it.
Just out of curiosity, have you tried StumpWM? It was also created by Shawn Betts; the idea was essentially to rewrite ratpoison in lisp.
However, I must have a browser window open at all times. There is no way around this. So, unless another solution presents itself, I will continue using dwm with Emacs / Firefox.
Xmonad, Emacs, a terminal and Chrome pretty much do the same thing for me on Ubuntu desktop, possibly with a little less pain. Mostly mouse free operation, and easy resizing, swapping etc. If you want to learn Emacs, just jump in head first. Try and use it like a native. Just for kicks I'm trying to do the same with vi by forcing myself to use it for anything vaguely sysadmin related.
Do you find yourself needing other little helpers (panel applets) or just run xmonad as is?
My config is here https://github.com/simonswain/dotxmonad
I'm always a little jealous when I see what people do with emacs. But I've never liked using emacs, so I've resigned myself to a permanent, mild case of emacs envy. I think you could get approximately his same functionality with a terminal (e.g urxvt) and tmux for the splitting. In fact I do essentially that at work on Windows, from a cygwin terminal and tmux. When it fits whatever workflow I'm doing from within cygw…
For some reason I share the feeling about emacs. However I personally prefer dwm in X11 environments and have thus written a "clone" for terminal/ssh sessions called dvtm. http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/
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It has already been done, see http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux.... .
Interesting. Have you tried it?
Xmonad, Emacs, a terminal and Chrome pretty much do the same thing for me on Ubuntu desktop, possibly with a little less pain. Mostly mouse free operation, and easy resizing, swapping etc. If you want to learn Emacs, just jump in head first. Try and use it like a native. Just for kicks I'm trying to do the same with vi by forcing myself to use it for anything vaguely sysadmin related.
Do you find yourself needing other little helpers (panel applets) or just run xmonad as is?
The one thing that I have never been able to work to my liking is running a shell inside emacs. I've tried the different modes (term, ansi-term, eshell) and find that they are all deficient in different ways. I think the main issue is that I have different operating models for emacs vs a terminal and when they get mashed together I subconsciously want a superset of functionality without any conflicts. So when there a…