I would really like to see this kind of work be done upstream. Emacs still looks the same as it did decades ago despite other editors advancing and becoming more user friendly.
IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs
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Re: IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs
#12I would love to see a project that rebuilds the Emacs UI but keeps the underlying core to give it a modern facelift, some things in emacs blend together and are a pain for my eyes to figure out whats what. It would be nice if the UI was modernized but the core was left as-is. I'm reminded of some of my favorite editors that are niche being Lisp related ones, where if you held down ctrl it would show you shortcuts in…
Re: IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs
#13Which is to say, this project isn't really for me, because I'm already familiar with Emacs keybindings. And as for a new user, they're going to eventually have to deal with the underlying configuration. Maybe it's a gateway drug?
Re: IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs
#14I would really like to see this kind of work be done upstream. Emacs still looks the same as it did decades ago despite other editors advancing and becoming more user friendly.
But don't force me to turn off treemacs, and minimap like I have to do in VSCode all the time just because some useless, space-wasting eye-candy is trendy.
Re: IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs
#15I would really like to see this kind of work be done upstream. Emacs still looks the same as it did decades ago despite other editors advancing and becoming more user friendly.
Re: IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs
#16Re: IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs
#17I would really like to see this kind of work be done upstream. Emacs still looks the same as it did decades ago despite other editors advancing and becoming more user friendly.
The magic of emacs is infinite customizability. And it's quite easy for users to find and start with emacs "distributions" or "starter packs". So that's probably the best route forward.
Potential improvements:
1 Base emacs continues to make it easier to try out a bunch of configurations and switch between them, obviating solutions like chemacs
2 There's a web repository of a a variety of starter packs with screenshots and reviews and installation instructions, to help beginners find everything in one place.
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Re: IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs
#18What I miss from vscode is the remote functionality, can you do it with emacs? For neovim there is distant.nvim, but idk if it is mature enough and configuration seems a bit annoying...
https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/
I am not sure if it will fit your needs or not.
Re: IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs
#19What I miss from vscode is the remote functionality, can you do it with emacs? For neovim there is distant.nvim, but idk if it is mature enough and configuration seems a bit annoying...
Re: IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs
#20What I miss from vscode is the remote functionality, can you do it with emacs? For neovim there is distant.nvim, but idk if it is mature enough and configuration seems a bit annoying...