Re:Is group chat making you sweat? (2016)
by sumduud14 on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @09:10AM
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Yeah, StumpWM is great. There was this blog post I saw once which was very helpful for getting set up, but I can't find it (not very helpful, I know).
What's great is that the .stumpwm is just Lisp code (just like .emacs) and every window management function is available (just like in...Emacs). If there's an error somewhere, you get the full power of the condition/restart system, so your WM doesn't just crash, you can recover interactively.
And with quicklisp, there are so many Common Lisp libraries available, it becomes very easy to script StumpWM however you like...all without leaving Emacs or restarting the WM or anything inconvenient like that.
I feel like this philosophy (editing a program while it's running) isn't really found in non-Lisp languages. Which is such a shame, since I think it's really useful and cool.
What's great is that the .stumpwm is just Lisp code (just like .emacs) and every window management function is available (just like in...Emacs). If there's an error somewhere, you get the full power of the condition/restart system, so your WM doesn't just crash, you can recover interactively.
And with quicklisp, there are so many Common Lisp libraries available, it becomes very easy to script StumpWM however you like...all without leaving Emacs or restarting the WM or anything inconvenient like that.
I feel like this philosophy (editing a program while it's running) isn't really found in non-Lisp languages. Which is such a shame, since I think it's really useful and cool.