Ask HN: If you were rewriting Emacs from scratch, what would you do differently?

• devil

  12 172 4.0 Emacs Lisp

  Emacs minor mode that intercepts and translates keystrokes to provide a modifier-free non-modal editing experience

  I know many like to remap Caps Lock to function as Ctrl. That does not work for me though because there is only Caps Lock key on the left hand side of the keyboard. I need Ctrl on both sides of the keyboard, so that I can use the left Ctrl key while typing Ctrl+P but the right one while typing Ctrl+A.

  Other possible alternatives are to map the Enter key too to behave like Ctrl when chorded, use sticky modifiers, etc. I have discussed some of these alternatives at <https://susam.github.io/devil/#why>.

  By the way, there are some vendors that still make Unix layout keyboards with the Ctrl key positioned where Caps Lock key generally is: <https://deskthority.net/wiki/Category:Keyboards_with_Unix_la...>.

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• emacs-ng

  81 1,718 9.9 Emacs Lisp

  A new approach to Emacs - Including TypeScript, Threading, Async I/O, and WebRender.

  

  relevant: https://github.com/remacs/remacs#rust-heart-emacs although as of this message it says they've given up in favor of https://github.com/emacs-ng/emacs-ng#contributing which does mention Rust but seems to be ... a lot different from Emacs so I guess they're really going all-in on the "NG" part

  for the non-tongue-in-cheek, also relevant: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs#h5o-2

• lem

  67 2,481 9.9 Common Lisp

  Common Lisp editor/IDE with high expansibility

  

  For the Common Lisp part, someone created lem [0], but for the other points I can't tell. I know there is an extension manager being developped, but am not able to judge the robustness. Also that there isn't org-mode.

  [0] : https://github.com/lem-project/lem

• remacs

  22 4,603 1.8 Emacs Lisp

  Rust :heart: Emacs

  

  relevant: https://github.com/remacs/remacs#rust-heart-emacs although as of this message it says they've given up in favor of https://github.com/emacs-ng/emacs-ng#contributing which does mention Rust but seems to be ... a lot different from Emacs so I guess they're really going all-in on the "NG" part

  for the non-tongue-in-cheek, also relevant: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs#h5o-2

• paip-el

  1 3 - Emacs Lisp

  Emacs' Elisp it's pretty close to Common Lisp, any CL user can learn Elisp in days (and the opposite it's true too). There's even a port of PAIP exercises into Elisp:

  https://github.com/yfuna/paip-el

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