Why GNU Emacs? - Hackdot

Re:Why GNU Emacs? by liotier on Monday February 15, 2016 @05:00AM (#11102491)

So, JSON passed between a bunch of Javascript things from Github means that the browser is the new EMACS ?

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Re:Why GNU Emacs? by auganov on Monday February 15, 2016 @06:37AM (#11102771)

As funny as that comparison sounds - browsers are an amazing environment/system. If we ever abandon the Browser for more opaque systems I'm sure it will be remembered the way we remember Lisp machines today.

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Re:Why GNU Emacs? by jarcane on Monday February 15, 2016 @05:50AM (#11102640)

The article more or less makes this precise comparison.

"Do everything in Emacs" isn't really so different from "Do everything in the browser."

Arguably, modern browsers are more heavyweight and complex at that. They certainly eat a hell of a lot more RAM than my Emacs ever does.

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Re:Why GNU Emacs? by mundanevoice on Monday February 15, 2016 @06:49AM (#11102817)

True, But they also do much more things than Emacs does.

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Re:Why GNU Emacs? by tempodox on Monday February 15, 2016 @07:50AM (#11103048)

If you really believe that you haven't understood emacs at all.

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Re:Why GNU Emacs? by jarcane on Monday February 15, 2016 @08:14AM (#11103171)

Ironically, the only thing Emacs can't seem to do these days is be a browser. ;)

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Re:Why GNU Emacs? by clocksld on Monday February 15, 2016 @11:51AM (#11104327)

The xwidget_mvp branch has been merged into the emacs master branch about a month ago.

It allows you to embed GTK widgets INSIDE an emacs buffer, effectively allowing one to create actual GUIs inside of emacs.

This also allows you to embed a full webkit-based browser (with javascript support!) right into emacs, and use it like a regular browser.

Just clone the emacs repo, build it with gtk3 and xwidget support, and run 'M-x xwidget-webkit-browse-url' to get a full-fledged browser with proper rendering right inside emacs.

https://www.emacswiki.org/pics/static/EmacsXembedScreenshot....

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Re:Why GNU Emacs? by nwah1 on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @10:12AM (#11110290)

There's only one question that remains to be answered. Why?

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Re:Why GNU Emacs? by gkya on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @04:25PM (#11113230)

Browsing through an environment that's integrated nicely, deeply configurable, and completely programmable. What else would you want as a programmer and an pc user?

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Re:Why GNU Emacs? by clocksld on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @02:15PM (#11112361)

Why not? :)

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Re:Why GNU Emacs? by to3m on Monday February 15, 2016 @09:14AM (#11103468)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs/W3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eww_%28web_browser%29

I don't believe there is any Javascript support, though, so you'll be out of luck for many modern pages...

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Re:Why GNU Emacs? by cema on Monday February 15, 2016 @06:03PM (#11106734)

Well, emacs certainly can be many things, if not all things. But is it? There is a difference.

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Re:Why GNU Emacs? by mundanevoice on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @05:27AM (#11108960)

Please make me understand!

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Re:Why GNU Emacs? by yvdriess on Monday February 15, 2016 @05:24AM (#11102580)

Maybe if it would be sending AST in JSON, not recommended though :)

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