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It reminds me of Emacs. Which seems approximately a virtualized Lisp machine. The pieces that are missing, like a typeface editor could probably be hacked up (and the reason it hasn't is that most people can't design better typefaces). Emacs calendar even has a human oriented interface. http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/old-gnu/Manuals/emacs-20.7/html_chapt...


Emacs + SLIME + Common Lisp was designed to be an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a Lisp Machine. And it succeeds admirably in that intent.


An illusion. Genera let you inspect just about down to hardware. Emacs is a veneer over what ever the underlying operating system is.


Hence ‘seems approximately a virtualized’ as a qualifier.


Back when I was an heavy UNIX user, in search of nice IDE like features, I settled with XEmacs because the community was more open minded regarding the integration of graphical capabilities.

How is modern Emacs in that regard?



Thanks.


Emacs probably surpassed XEmacs in that regard more than a decade ago.


Yeah, that is when I switched focus back into Mac/Windows as my main platforms and IDEs.

Thanks for the hint.


If you're running Mac, I suggest the railwaycat fork, which is basically GNU emacs plus some quality of life features that RMS is against like applescript/os integration, smooth scrolling and nice fonts


Railwaycat on github: https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport

A list of differences: https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/src/f3402395995bf70...

> Official repository: https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/overview

> This is "Mac port" addition to GNU Emacs 26. This provides a native GUI support for Mac OS X 10.6 - macOS 10.15. Note that Emacs 23 and later already contain the official GUI support via the NS (Cocoa) port. So if it is good enough for you, then you don't need to try this.

> If you'd like to install with Homebrew, please

     $ brew tap railwaycat/emacsmacport

  and then

     $ brew install emacs-mac

  if you using cask

     brew cask install emacs-mac or brew cask install emacs-mac-spacemacs-icon

 To disable this tap, please:

    $ brew untap railwaycat/emacsmacport


Thanks, I am mostly on Windows and IDEs nowadays, just wondering about the current state of affairs.




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