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2049 points bpierre | 3 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.416s | source
1. freekh ◴[30 Mar 16 17:28 UTC] No.11391130[source]▶
What? This is sick!? I can't wait for this to happen! Maybe I am gonna get one of those Surface Books after all... though I am gonna miss my i3 setup... I wonder if X (or wayland! or wayland...) can run as well... Native Emacs FTW :)
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2. itchynose ◴[30 Mar 16 17:48 UTC] No.11391368[source]▶
I frigging love i3, but not a big fan of thinkpad and linux desktop combo.

I ordered a surface pro 4 and planning to run i3 in a VM with my existing nixOS configuration. I wonder how this news will affect my workflow.

I have emacs running as a systemd service and client emacs connecting to it, so it's quite a killer combo for development.

3. anthk ◴[30 Mar 16 20:35 UTC] No.11392774[source]▶
1) You have native EMacs for W32 since forever 2) Run XMing in fullscreen mode 3) Compaile and run i3.