Emacs for the rest of us: ErgoEmacs

Re:Emacs for the rest of us: ErgoEmacs by mnutt on Friday December 23, 2011 @12:08PM (#3386281)

That's interesting, but one of the challenges is the wide variety of modifier keys emacs uses, and the difficulty of binding them all in the browser.

The other major challenge is just duplicating javascript the sheer quantity of functionality emacs provides. An easier first step may be to run emacs on the server and write a javascript-based client for it.

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Re:Emacs for the rest of us: ErgoEmacs by ajross on Friday December 23, 2011 @01:57PM (#3386720)

Or, you know, run emacs on the server and write a "ssh based client" for it. :)

What would be the value of running in a browser specifically? The files you are editting almost by definition live outside the browser's sandbox. And if they're going to be managed server-side, it seems like there's a perfectly working 40 year old paradigm for managing files on a remote host.

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Re:Emacs for the rest of us: ErgoEmacs by mnutt on Monday December 26, 2011 @03:14PM (#3393816)

You're right, it's an interesting challenge but not necessarily one that is begging to be solved.

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