VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor"

Re:VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor" by achyudh on Saturday December 27, 2025 @04:09PM (#46405253)

While Emacs can run in a terminal, it is more widely used as a GUI application that can render images, PDFs, variable-pitch fonts, handle mouse support (drag-and-drop, menus, scrollbars), and even work on touchscreens such as on Android [1].

You are right that VS Code has a "nicer" out of the box UX (this is subjective of course), but Emacs offers a malleable environment. In VS Code, you are limited to what the APIs the developers decided to expose. If you want a specific behavior that isn't supported, you either fork the editor or create a feature request ticket and wait for someone to prioritize it. In Emacs, because you have full access to the internal runtime, you can implement that feature yourself in a couple of lines of Lisp.

1: https://kristofferbalintona.me/posts/202505291438/

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Re:VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor" by bobajeff on Sunday December 28, 2025 @11:00AM (#46411977)

Thanks, it's been so very long since I've tried emacs. I remember I didn't like how it looked. So I used vim instead. (There was no vscode back then.) So I never did give it much of a try.

Emacs might be a solid editor choice but my intuition is that it probably won't be worth it for the same reason LiteXL wasn't for me. If I do work on adding features to my editor I think I'd be more comfortable doing it in js, html and css. And if possible I'd rather start with a base that's mostly where I want it to be. Trying to turn emacs into vscode sounds like way more of a project than turning Theia or CodeMirror into vscode.

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Re:VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor" by f1shy on Monday December 29, 2025 @11:28AM (#46422224)

Actually there are plenty of packages already which can near Emacs to VSC or Sublime in look and feel, and imho go circles around the 2 in functionality.

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Re:VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor" by bobajeff on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @10:11AM (#46434051)

Care to link to those? I looked and all I found was this:

https://github.com/DevelopmentCool2449/visual-emacs

Which didn't really impress me terribly much.

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Re:VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor" by f1shy on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @01:47AM (#46442006)

I don’t know them, because I do not like VSC and co. I just have a friend, and when I see his Emacs looks like sublime. Is some work to get it to look like that.

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