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IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs

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301 points nogajun | 1 comments | 16 Nov 25 00:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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charcircuit ◴[16 Nov 25 04:01 UTC] No.45942646[source]▶
I would really like to see this kind of work be done upstream. Emacs still looks the same as it did decades ago despite other editors advancing and becoming more user friendly.
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stackghost ◴[16 Nov 25 04:33 UTC] No.45942795[source]▶
A huge portion of the emacs community seems resistant to any UI improvement. I think it's a counterculture thing.
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1. natrys ◴[16 Nov 25 09:29 UTC] No.45943805[source]▶
It can hardly be called resistance to improvement, when everyone do improve it - just in their own ways. The default isn't some fashion statement, some aesthete that's objectively good (though I am sure some people do subjectively like it). But it's meant to be sort of a least presumptuous blank state that everyone can radically overhaul. So arguably it's an encouragement for improvement just like everything else in Emacs, which focuses on making the tools for improvement easier.

It's just that "improvement" as a matter of public consensus that everyone can agree on to elect the next blank slate has been to impossible to settle on. But the counterculture here broadly might be extreme reluctance to inconvenience even a minority of existing users, in pursuit of market share/growth.