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Emacs X Window Manager

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Re: Emacs X Window Manager

#11
post #10

Very impressive and very useful for certain Emacs workflows. Also, something tells me the creator of this project and its users won't feel the need to spam HN and r/programming with regular updates on the progress of the project in an attempt to raise the profile of the language it was written in--unlike what we saw with a certain other tiling window manager a few years back.

In fact, there is already a Lisp (Common, not Emacs) tiling WM called StumpWM.

If you haven't heard of it yet, it's partly because the Lisp community isn't so embarrassingly insecure and desperate for anything they can pass off as a "killer app" (see Macsyma or Emacs itself) that they feel compelled to shove it down everyone's throat.

Re: Emacs X Window Manager

#13
I would love to run this. I'm a bit worried that there is only a "certain degree of concurrency" promised in the XELB library it's built on. Seems like there would be many ways for this to get blocked. `list-packages` might stall my whole system, not just Emacs.

Re: Emacs X Window Manager

#15
post #10

Very impressive and very useful for certain Emacs workflows. Also, something tells me the creator of this project and its users won't feel the need to spam HN and r/programming with regular updates on the progress of the project in an attempt to raise the profile of the language it was written in--unlike what we saw with a certain other tiling window manager a few years back.

Which window manager are you referring to ?

Re: Emacs X Window Manager

#16
post #11
post #10

Very impressive and very useful for certain Emacs workflows. Also, something tells me the creator of this project and its users won't feel the need to spam HN and r/programming with regular updates on the progress of the project in an attempt to raise the profile of the language it was written in--unlike what we saw with a certain other tiling window manager a few years back.

In fact, there is already a Lisp (Common, not Emacs) tiling WM called StumpWM. If you haven't heard of it yet, it's partly because the Lisp community isn't so embarrassingly insecure and desperate for anything they can pass off as a "killer app" (see Macsyma or Emacs itself) that they feel compelled to shove it down everyone's throat.

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Re: Emacs X Window Manager

#17
post #10

Very impressive and very useful for certain Emacs workflows. Also, something tells me the creator of this project and its users won't feel the need to spam HN and r/programming with regular updates on the progress of the project in an attempt to raise the profile of the language it was written in--unlike what we saw with a certain other tiling window manager a few years back.

Which window manager are you referring to ?

I'm going to assume from context that they're talking about xmonad.

Re: Emacs X Window Manager

#18
post #10

Very impressive and very useful for certain Emacs workflows. Also, something tells me the creator of this project and its users won't feel the need to spam HN and r/programming with regular updates on the progress of the project in an attempt to raise the profile of the language it was written in--unlike what we saw with a certain other tiling window manager a few years back.

As a happy emacs and xmonad power user, I'd love to see more of both!

Why so defensive?

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