atom VS GNU Emacs

I thought a lot of the Atom developers moved to create Pulsar Editor.

https://pulsar-edit.dev/

Also, the community forked Atom into a community edition (CE), still getting updates?

https://github.com/atom-community/atom/

What makes this "Atom Developer Editor" different than Pulsar or Atom-CE.

There's https://github.com/atom-community/atom, hoping that or similar will gain traction

A couple community maintained Atom forks have emerged: Atom Community and Pulsar. Of the two, Pulsar seems to be more actively developed.

Yes, I know Microsoft is archiving the Atom editor repo, but a public fork lives on. https://github.com/atom-community/atom/ atom-slime is probably still my favorite of the bunch. It actually uses Emacs SLIME. But I haven't looked at it in a couple years or longer.

Looks like the Atom community also started a fork of Atom a while back: https://github.com/atom-community/atom/

There is this: https://github.com/atom-community/atom

If you haven't heard, MS is retiring Atom in December 2022. I assume most of us will try the Atom community fork. But as back-up, etc., what editors are folks thinking about / exploring?

After the announcement of Atom sunset, people started to continue it as a community fork. It seems it's growing and drawing attention: At July 10th (two days after the announcement), it had 86 stars, but now it has more than 230! It may be no comparable to the star count of Atom itself (around 58k), but it's rising.

But - the community is taking the job to reimplement the servers. We're not sure about teletype, but packages will be able to be installed - well, in a different Atom binary that the community will provide. For more info: https://github.com/atom-community/atom/discussions

gnu.org - contains everything you need to research his philosophy.

stallman.org - personal website, contains a lot of opinion, but I absolutely respect this man in all what he says.

emacs.org (redirects to https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) - his non-philosophical work, one of two mainstream console text editors.

Forever, there was a file included in stock Emacs, `spook.el`, which could be hooked up to automatically add random strings of "interesting" keywords to each of your email or Usenet messages (in signatures, or in headers like `X-Spook`).

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ma...

Looks like copyright date of 1988:

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/play/...

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/etc/spook....

Try `M-x spook RET` in an Emacs buffer.

If you want to spare a couple of detours, you probably could start with Emacs Org-mode according to Greenspun's eleventh rule: "Any sufficiently complicated PIM or note-taking program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Org mode."

Emacs: winget install GNU.Emacs

The whole cl-lib thing is a total disaster:

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/emacs...

They added cl- as a prefix to each Common Lisp symbol.

FIRST is now called cl-first, CAAAR is now cl-caaar .

I would really prefer if GNU Emacs removes all Common Lisp functionality, instead of creating this really wacky stuff, with discussions about this topic every year.

Never too late to try! Take your time. Emacs will outlive us all. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

GNU Emacs is a versatile, open-source text editor that offers extensibility and customization—a sort of self-documenting real-time display editor. Our thanks for the suggestion go to CartanAnnullator.

Emacs

Their DEFUN and DEFVAR macros for example let us define a function or a variable that will be available as a Lisp function, and can be used as an ordinary C function from the C code. Emacs is written in pure C99 language and works with both GCC and Clang I believe. We can just define a C function via macro, and it is auto exported and made available to Lisp. For example my first patch to Emacs was for this function (we added "count" argument to make it possible to skip enumerating files in a directory for the case when user code is just interesting if a directory is empty or not):