Re:Emacs Is My New Window Manager
by herewulf on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:58PM
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There are multiple indications that this was written in 2015, yet the advice seems new. The timelessness of elisp/lisp and the emacs ecosystem.
I actually did the same thing a couple years back on a system where an Arch Linux upgrade resulted in my Xmonad packages being broken beyond repair. "emacs only" wasn't what I was used to but I was impressed with how much utility I got out of just emacs and no window manager. With some of the author's tips, I could probably do the same. Though a lot of my work forces me into using a "real" web browser (with JS and the kitchen sink).
I actually did the same thing a couple years back on a system where an Arch Linux upgrade resulted in my Xmonad packages being broken beyond repair. "emacs only" wasn't what I was used to but I was impressed with how much utility I got out of just emacs and no window manager. With some of the author's tips, I could probably do the same. Though a lot of my work forces me into using a "real" web browser (with JS and the kitchen sink).