Re:Why GNU Emacs?
by benaiah on Sunday February 14, 2016 @05:37PM
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Emacs is actually having a bit of a renaissance - ever since package.el came out and became widely adopted, Emacs adoption seems to have increased significantly, and Emacs development is quite active these days.
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And 25 is near and with xwidget support, i.e. embedding things like a Webkit instance in a buffer. I guess I will be able to "exec emacs --debug-init" in my .xsession soon.
There is EXWM, an X window manager for Emacs:
https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm
Here are some screenshots: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm/wiki/Screenshots
Actually you can - http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/new-window-manager....
All you need to do is to set up a couple of hotkeys for things that Emacs cannot do (yet), like (start-process "" nil "xdg-open" "http://some.flashy.javascript.website")
I'm eagerly waiting for the day I can use emacs as my window manager.
You're waiting for a day in the past: See EXWM, links in a sibling comment. With it, you can use emacs as your window manager already.
That would be awesome! Is it actually stable and/or usable?
I tried it very early and it was unstable, but I'm following its development, and it seems that it'll be stable shortly. I'm using ratpoison nowadays, though I'll switch to it when it's stable enough and emacs gets multithreading.