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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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giancarlostoro ◴[16 Nov 25 04:06 UTC] No.45942664[source]▶
I would love to see a project that rebuilds the Emacs UI but keeps the underlying core to give it a modern facelift, some things in emacs blend together and are a pain for my eyes to figure out whats what. It would be nice if the UI was modernized but the core was left as-is. I'm reminded of some of my favorite editors that are niche being Lisp related ones, where if you held down ctrl it would show you shortcuts in the UI itself and what they lead to. I also always enjoyed Racket's import arrows and other small things that are visually amazingly impressive despite being so simple.
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znpy ◴[16 Nov 25 09:07 UTC] No.45943716[source]▶
I would actually change as little as possible.

The current UI has it quirks, but has the great advantage that it looks the same irrespective of whether you're in an graphical environment (Xorg/Wayland/Windows/MacOS) on in a terminal (either local or remote via ssh).

I *love* that treemacs looks pretty much the same everywhere.

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1. setopt ◴[16 Nov 25 13:40 UTC] No.45945076[source]▶
It doesn’t really look the same by default.

Most new users end up disabling the toolbar, menu bar, scroll bars, etc. and only then does it look the same in the terminal. Even then, many themes and packages frivolously change font sizes or switch to non-monospace fonts in some GUI contexts, so for users that like the uniformity of the interface you need to do extra work to disable these features.

(I personally like the terminal aesthetic, and configure the GUI to look like a terminal. That basically required advising load-theme to loop over all faces and disable font properties I don’t like after each theme change…)