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Re: Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs

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Post by macintux »

mrspeaker wrote: post #9
kleiba wrote: post #5

Kinda strange. Emacs is so inherently keyboard-focused that I fail to see the point of this... nor the need for it?!

I use Emacs as my primary... everything. But I totally see the point and need for mouse-driven functionality. Emacs only works if you have two functioning arms with hands on them. Put a coffee, a sandwich, a cat, a kid, a beer... in one of your hands, and Emacs is unusable. If my cat wants some attention, I can't keep typin' stuff. Though, not sure why the mouse-driven features are also wrapped up making shortcuts ma…

I was looking at a recent HN post about chording, and it struck me I'd have a hard time using a chording keyboard with Emacs. This might address that problem for me.

Re: Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs

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Post by yourapostasy »

gumby wrote: post #25
murgindrag wrote: post #11

I think this is solving several different problems: 1) I would love to have a better way to manage tabs and multiple files in emacs. This piece seems awesome! 2) Good context menus aren't as important, but a definite win! emacs is useless here. But I'm not sure your context menus are the ones I want. 3) As someone who's used emacs for a long time, I would hate to have my emacs shortcuts replaced by standard ones. I d…

“Better way to manage multiple files”? I just asked Emacs and I have over 700 files open. Not sure what is inconvenient about editing multiple files.

And in case someone reading is wondering, "how do I count the number of buffers":

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/350526/how-do-i-count-th...

I recommend using the desktop feature also mentioned there.

Now, if I can only get emacs daemon mode to maintain state so if I abruptly disconnect and reconnect with emacsclient over X11 I get the state restored exactly where I left off, so that even the screen is painted exactly where I left off, down to the cursor position. Running something like VNC is a non-starter on my locked-down WinPC, unfortunately.

Re: Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs

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Post by Koshkin »

melling wrote: post #28
kleiba wrote: post #5

Kinda strange. Emacs is so inherently keyboard-focused that I fail to see the point of this... nor the need for it?!

Emacs is an editor construction kit. Use your imagination and build a different editor.

Building and maintaining an “emacs distribution” (even for a single user like yourself) is a huge effort which is rarely worth it.

Re: Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs

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Post by jhardy54 »

Koshkin wrote: post #30
timonoko wrote: post #2

This is the first step only. I remember in 1995 Stallman wanted Emacs to be "like Microsoft Word" with varying fonts and other formatting shit with hidden Tex-coding. Do it.

I do not understand the want to stick with fixed-width fonts in this day and age. We do not use the editor to punch cards anymore, nor do we type text on a character-cell terminal or a typewriter. With the high-resolution displays, code we write should look more like one that is found in some nice programming books - complete with bold-faced reserved words, italicized comments, and even some mathematical typesetting.…

Could you link to some non-monospace font rendering that you find accessible and attractive?

In my experience, code in non-monospace fonts are hard to read and is hard to navigate because the letters don't line up.

Re: Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs

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Post by marci »

hprotagonist wrote: post #7
timonoko wrote: post #2

This is the first step only. I remember in 1995 Stallman wanted Emacs to be "like Microsoft Word" with varying fonts and other formatting shit with hidden Tex-coding. Do it.

o-org-mode?

customized like this https://lepisma.xyz/2017/10/28/ricing-org-mode/ or like this https://github.com/rougier/elegant-emacs

Re: Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs

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Post by jpfr »

timonoko wrote: post #2

This is the first step only. I remember in 1995 Stallman wanted Emacs to be "like Microsoft Word" with varying fonts and other formatting shit with hidden Tex-coding. Do it.

He still wants Emacs to become a general-purpose word processor.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-03/msg00...

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-04/msg01...

And not everybody is happy about it. [Careful, flame ahead.]

http://ergoemacs.org/misc/rms_emacs_tyrant_2018-03.html

Re: Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs

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Post by dig1 »

Koshkin wrote: post #30
timonoko wrote: post #2

This is the first step only. I remember in 1995 Stallman wanted Emacs to be "like Microsoft Word" with varying fonts and other formatting shit with hidden Tex-coding. Do it.

I do not understand the want to stick with fixed-width fonts in this day and age. We do not use the editor to punch cards anymore, nor do we type text on a character-cell terminal or a typewriter. With the high-resolution displays, code we write should look more like one that is found in some nice programming books - complete with bold-faced reserved words, italicized comments, and even some mathematical typesetting.…

You can do that with many Emacs themes, but have you tried to read those things for a longer time? I like uniform text with minimal highlighting and I know many developers prefer the same - it is much easier for eyes. Some prefer to have a circus of fonts, colors and sizes. YMMV.

Re: Mousemacs – A mouse-driven Emacs

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Post by znpy »

marci wrote: post #36
hprotagonist wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

o-org-mode?

customized like this https://lepisma.xyz/2017/10/28/ricing-org-mode/ or like this https://github.com/rougier/elegant-emacs

> like this https://github.com/rougier/elegant-emacs

OMG that is beautiful

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