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Re: Emacs X Window Manager

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Post by arianvanp »

emacs27 wrote: post #11
emacs27 wrote: 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.

Why the attitude? Can we just sit down, relax, and enjoy the awesome hack that this is without being all "we're too cool for hacker news"? . I'm really glad someone shared this today as it really brought a smile to my face.

Re: Emacs X Window Manager

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Post by weland »

calpaterson wrote: post #21
jevgeni wrote: post #20

Sweet baby Jesus, it has happened. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html

Emacs long ago (decades) expanded to read mail. There are probably multiple mail clients in GNU emacs now

There are!

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryMail

Re: Emacs X Window Manager

#24

Post by TurboHaskal »

emacs27 wrote: post #11
emacs27 wrote: 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.

And that's exactly why Common Lisp is fading into obscurity while the "embarrassingly insecure" Clojure community is making the language take over.

Re: Emacs X Window Manager

#26

Post by mbrock »

bentcorner wrote: post #19
webkike wrote: post #2

In all honestly this is all I've ever wanted out of a window manager.

I've used Ratpoison in the past which seemed like a decent tiling WM. I don't have a ton of experience with it but the little I tried seemed to work as expected.

I've been using Ratpoison since like 2005 or something. Pause for a few years while I was using OS X, and then I'd just put everything in fullscreen or on different workspaces. The tiling stuff in Ratpoison works well enough, but it's not super sophisticated and personally I almost never use it except when I'm like transcribing something. I'm using Ratpoison on a high-DPI laptop right now, I just upped my DPI and use huge fonts and everything's in fullscreen. It's lovely!

Re: Emacs X Window Manager

#27

Post by yenda »

TurboHaskal wrote: post #24
emacs27 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

And that's exactly why Common Lisp is fading into obscurity while the "embarrassingly insecure" Clojure community is making the language take over.

The sad truth

Re: Emacs X Window Manager

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Post by philjackson »

calpaterson wrote: post #21
jevgeni wrote: post #20

Sweet baby Jesus, it has happened. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html

Emacs long ago (decades) expanded to read mail. There are probably multiple mail clients in GNU emacs now

I've gone from Gnus to Wanderlust finally settling on mu4e. The first two were probably more a gimmick where mu4e actually enables me to get things done.
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