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Re:Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode by kamaal on Monday June 29, 2020 @11:48PM (#23686351)
Doing less work is pretty much the programmer creed. But that statement has several dimensions. Including having to do less configuration and tweaking work.

I think a modern lisp based editor, with concurrency/threading built in. With Racket/Clojure/CL backend with modern controls builtin would be all we need.

You still keep the emacs spirit, but with modern outlook.

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Re:Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode by _emacsomancer_ on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @12:00AM (#23686401)
> I think a modern lisp based editor, with concurrency/threading built in. With Racket/Clojure/CL backend with modern controls builtin would be all we need.

Sure, but it's the same as the "replace (La)TeX" problem: part of the value of the ecosystem is the huge collection of packages/extensions.

But if there was a reasonable way of porting packages over to a CL/Scheme new editor base, I agree that would be good.

> Including having to do less configuration and tweaking work.

Sure, but a bad, unconfigurable tool is more work.

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