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Re: Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free

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Post by ernestrc » Sat, Aug 01, 2026, 9:18 PM UTC

petrichor_solac wrote: post #50

ernestrc wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, looking into it. edit: I think it's from all the videos playing at once, even when not visible. It should be fixed now.

Hey, I don't see anywhere in the docs how one can remap the `meta` key to something else? Project looks cool as hell tho

Thanks! :) https://docs.rune.build/learn/key-mapping

Re: Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free

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Post by ernestrc » Sat, Aug 01, 2026, 9:37 PM UTC

dminvs wrote: post #46

ubercore wrote: post #34

Might want to think about installation. Suspicious of black box shell installations like that, and I'm on a laptop with restrictions. Looks like installation failed trying to write to places it shouldn't, but it's just pulling a dmg to copy on MacOS? EDIT: also not helping trust that it's not letting me quit?

also curious as to why libresolv.so.2 is packaged in the Linux tarball

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Re: Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free

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Post by Pay08 » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 9:10 PM UTC

rich_sasha wrote: post #30

bryanlarsen wrote: post #7

Quite impressed with a sales page basically telling me to stick with Emacs for now: https://rune.build/coming-from/emacs

Lots of IDEs claim to offer Vim/Emacs emulation. Vim users seem often quite happy with the vim emulation they get (I'm only an occasional Vim user so don't have an opinion). The issue with emulating Emacs is that the editor key bindings are not the feature. The feature of Emacs is basically an IDE totally tuned to how you want it, plus the fact that then you apply the same ecosystem to a great number of text-adjacent…

And often, that Emacs keybinding emulation is incredibly incomplete. For example, Matlab's Emacs emulation doesn't have M-w bound and I believe C-k doesn't copy, it only kills. And the emulation is the default setting on Linux.

Re: Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free

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Post by xprnio » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 9:59 PM UTC

para_parolu wrote: post #48

xprnio wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IntelliJ actually does (did) have quite solid vim emulation, at least from my experience of using it before going full into neovim (now on Emacs, btw)

Except when you go to any pane/window without code it stops using vim bindings

Yeah, that seems to be the general pattern across vi-emulation. However, back when I was on IntellJ stuff (pre vi-emulation), I was already quite deep into the plethora of keyboard shortcuts within IntelliJ, so although you couldn’t do everything with just vi-emulation, you could still do essentially almost everything without leaving the keyboard. Not the same as full blown vim, but it was a solid workflow in my eyes.

The main reason I switched was because of finances and hardware limitations, as I’m now rocking an 8GB M1 MBP

Re: Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free

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Post by Ferret7446 » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 2:27 AM UTC

rich_sasha wrote: post #30

bryanlarsen wrote: post #7

Quite impressed with a sales page basically telling me to stick with Emacs for now: https://rune.build/coming-from/emacs

Lots of IDEs claim to offer Vim/Emacs emulation. Vim users seem often quite happy with the vim emulation they get (I'm only an occasional Vim user so don't have an opinion). The issue with emulating Emacs is that the editor key bindings are not the feature. The feature of Emacs is basically an IDE totally tuned to how you want it, plus the fact that then you apply the same ecosystem to a great number of text-adjacent…

The irony is that Emacs-like bindings are far more widespread (readline support by default, and most GUIs support Alt+arrow, alt+backspace)