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Re:Why GNU Emacs? by gkya on Sunday February 14, 2016 @06:40PM (#11100579)
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.
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Re:Why GNU Emacs? by rekado on Monday February 15, 2016 @04:38AM (#11102410)
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

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Re:Why GNU Emacs? by snaky on Monday February 15, 2016 @04:39AM (#11102420)
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")

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Re:Why GNU Emacs? by gpderetta on Monday February 15, 2016 @07:04AM (#11102867)
I'm eagerly waiting for the day I can use emacs as my window manager.
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Re:Why GNU Emacs? by gkya on Monday February 15, 2016 @04:35PM (#11106203)
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.
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Re:Why GNU Emacs? by gpderetta on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @10:00AM (#11110206)
That would be awesome! Is it actually stable and/or usable?
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Re:Why GNU Emacs? by gkya on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @04:15PM (#11113178)
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.
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