nov.el VS lem

Compare nov.el vs lem and see what are their differences.

nov.el

Major mode for reading EPUBs in Emacs (by wasamasa)

lem

Common Lisp editor/IDE with high expansibility (by cxxxr)
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nov.el lem
3 55
632 2,059
- 4.4%
3.9 9.9
almost 4 years ago 5 days ago
Emacs Lisp Common Lisp
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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nov.el

Posts with mentions or reviews of nov.el. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-10.
  • Share your workflows for highlighting books - roam compatible epub reader with highlighting? nov.el / ereader
    5 projects | /r/orgmode | 10 Oct 2022
    bddean's ereader and nov.el look appealing, especially with nov-xwidget.el for formatting on the latter.
  • Emacs for Professionals
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 May 2022
    I'm one of those weird users who works in both, and I've also never really understood the need to pick a side. I initially used emacs for years, and now I've used both for years. I also don't pick a side in the tea and coffee debate, sometimes I want rooibos and others espresso.

    Admittedly, my emacs usage at this point is largely to treat it as a collection of distinct apps; fire up in nov-mode¹ mode to read books, fire up in magit-status² to mangle git repository, etc. It really feels like there are a collection of best of breed apps that just happen to built on emacs as a toolkit, most of which are fully functional without buying in to emacs for life(not that I'm saying there is anything wrong with that).

    The only time I really use it as an actual editing tool is when I'm working on documentation, and that is largely because I like being able to see inline screenshots in that instance.

    ¹ https://github.com/wasamasa/nov.el

    ² https://magit.vc/

  • Question about nov.el mode
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 31 Dec 2020
    It has been considered and rejected due to the inherent complexity: https://github.com/wasamasa/nov.el/issues/4

lem

Posts with mentions or reviews of lem. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-16.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nov.el and lem you can also consider the following projects:

doomemacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker

emacs - My emacs configuration

org-remark - Highlight & annotate text, EWW, Info, and EPUB

emacs-anywhere - Configurable automation + hooks called with application information

consult-project-extra - Consult extension for project.el

Second-Climacs - Version 2 of the Climacs text editor.

bufler.el - A butler for your buffers. Group buffers into workspaces with programmable rules, and easily switch to and manipulate them.

mg - Micro (GNU) Emacs-like text editor ❤️ public-domain

org-pdftools - A custom org link type for pdf-tools

lem-opengl - OpenGL frontend for the Lem text editor

cider - The Clojure Interactive Development Environment that Rocks for Emacs

emacs4cl - A tiny DIY kit to set up vanilla Emacs for Common Lisp programming