Emacs As Operating System

Re:Emacs As Operating System by TeMPOraL on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @03:20PM (#6292064)

Friend gave me this link once: http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux.... - Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel.

BTW. you can get a pretty good Emacs-as-an-OS feel with the combo of Emacs, Conkeror [0] and StumpWM [1]. They are all extremely extensible (via Emacs Lisp, JavaScript and Common Lisp, respectively) and can be even made to talk to each other.

[0] - http://conkeror.org/

[1] - http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/

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Re:Emacs As Operating System by Tcepsa on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @04:34PM (#6292453)

you can get a pretty good Emacs-as-an-OS feel with the combo of Emacs, Conkeror, and StumpWM

That is the setup that I use at home, and it. is. GLORIOUS.*

*YMMV

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Re:Emacs As Operating System by LukeShu on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @06:12PM (#6293040)

I did that for a while, but now use wmii instead of StumpWM.

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Re:Emacs As Operating System by kinleyd on Thursday August 29, 2013 @01:54AM (#6294476)

Using Emacs and Conkeror, with Herbstluftwm.

Conkeror was what tipped everything for me: Having been used to gui apps for a long time, my continued use of gui browsers kept me in some kind of limbo. Learned just enough of Emacs to get things done but never going whole hog in learning its shortcuts mainly because I was still relying on mouse clicks on things like the browser. With Conkeror, those shortcuts work well on both my non-gui emacs setup as well as the browser. It's been a great working environment.

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Re:Emacs As Operating System by jlgreco on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @06:37PM (#6293136)

> BTW. you can get a pretty good Emacs-as-an-OS feel with the combo of Emacs, Conkeror [0] and StumpWM [1].

This sort of setup is exactly what makes me, a Vim user, think I may have made a mistake by not picking up Emacs instead.

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Re:Emacs As Operating System by splawn on Thursday August 29, 2013 @01:24PM (#6297123)

About a month ago I heard about evil-mode in emacs and gave it a shot. It will allow you to by-pass much of the 'boilerplate' learning curve (how to move around inside and between buffers and edit, etc) so you can just focus on the cool aspects of emacs that vi doesn't do as well. Spent the first week or so setting emacs up more or less with the same features and shortcuts I got used to in my customized vim environment and haven't looked back. Have your cake and eat it too. :)

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Re:Emacs As Operating System by MetaCosm on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @09:07PM (#6293667)

This sort of setup is exactly what makes me, a Vim user, absolutely sure I made the correct decision by not picking up Emacs instead. :)

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Re:Emacs As Operating System by qu4z-2 on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @07:46PM (#6293384)

Have you tried pentadactyl? wmii has vim keybindings too.

Sure, it's not the same as emacs OS, but it does feel like at least vim-keys-everywhere.

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Re:Emacs As Operating System by krichman on Thursday August 29, 2013 @12:02AM (#6294183)

I love Vim so much but I sure wish it had a proper scripting language without requiring me to recompile the whole binary to get partial functionality.

Has anyone used Vile? I tried to compile it once and it looked to be quite onerous to fix all of Clang's whinging. Evil?

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Re:Emacs As Operating System by jlgreco on Thursday August 29, 2013 @12:18AM (#6294236)

I think evil mode in emacs is probably the best bet. However I've messed around with elisp a bit in the past though and I can't say I am thrilled enough with it to make the jump. I wish one of the projects to get Emacs going with a scheme would get off the ground...

If mzscheme/racket scripting support for Vim were given the love that python support is getting instead, that would please me immensely. It seems nobody is using that though.

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Re:Emacs As Operating System by adiM on Thursday August 29, 2013 @02:38AM (#6294581)

One can use Python, Lua, Ruby, and a bunch of other programming languages to write VIM scripts. At least on ArchLinux, the vim binary comes with support enabled for these scripting languages.

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Re:Emacs As Operating System by leonardoe on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @07:42PM (#6293369)

In case anyone is interested here is a HN page-mode for Conkeror I wrote a while back: https://github.com/legumbre/hackernews-mode It makes the site a bit easier to navigate.

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Re:Emacs As Operating System by fspeech on Thursday August 29, 2013 @12:48AM (#6294327)

Thanks for mentioning Conkeror. I just installed it (on Windows) and am enjoying it very much. I keep my Emacs 80 characters wide so it takes up only half the screen. Now I have Conkeror taking up the other half and Alt-Tab between the two and I can do most things without touching the mouse. Having the two using common key maps really reduces mental strain!

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Re:Emacs As Operating System by scottdw on Thursday August 29, 2013 @03:46PM (#6298172)

Re: conkeror, I keep hoping the lazy web will take Shane Celis's emacsy and webkit proof of concept[0] and make a scheme-based emacs-like browser.

[0]https://github.com/shanecelis/emacsy/blob/master/README.md

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Re:Emacs As Operating System by technomancy on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @05:40PM (#6292882)

Unfortunately as far as I can tell it's no longer possible to compile recent Emacs versions statically. Would love to be proven wrong on that point; I could have missed something due to not knowing the first thing about autotools.

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Re:Emacs As Operating System by agumonkey on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @03:55PM (#6292239)

In a similar fashion boot-to-guile : http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2013-02/msg0013...

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