Emacs is the 2D Command-line Interface

• Visual Studio Code

  2,840 158,095 10.0 TypeScript

  Visual Studio Code

  

> VSCode does not even have keyboard macros.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/search?term=macros&targ...

> Either "every keystroke is a programmable command" is not exactly what is going on in VSCode

There are commands (JavaScript-Functions) which one can be bind to keys. But who knows whether all keys have a command behind them? An with a GUI, I wondern whether all interactions are bindable commands. Mouse-Interaction, especially in context of some widget might be more complex to handle than just recording an input-flow.

> because so far there has been 5 years of whining and 0 patches: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/4490

Which only means it has no priority. But considering there are 4.7k open issues and 103k closed, taking a single issue is just a hint that the community is likely not pushing hard enough for this specific issue.

• transient

  24 605 9.3 Emacs Lisp

  Transient commands (by magit)

  

I think specifically, transient.el is the 2d CLI. https://github.com/magit/transient

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• dash.el

  7 1,632 5.3 Emacs Lisp

  A modern list library for Emacs

It is quite a bit more readable comparing (for example) to what you'd do in Python, basically a matter of few extra quotes. Here's an example https://github.com/magnars/dash.el/blob/a17b6b5409825891423b...

Another benefit apart from macros is that you can replace whole subexpressions to modify the function code: https://github.com/raxod502/el-patch#el-patch Although arguably you can achieve the same with source code and other languages: https://github.com/adamchainz/patchy#patchy

Although (as a keen Emacs user & someone who often hacks into existing librairies) user I'm not really convinced either that homoiconicity plays that huge of a role in Emacs malleability in particular -- to me it's more about hooks/advice system and being able to dynamically override things to tweak into the way I want them to behave -- and I don't see a good reason why this couldn't be possible in other languages.

• use-package

  67 4,365 2.3 Emacs Lisp

  A use-package declaration for simplifying your .emacs

Thank you for this thoughtful comment. I assume you are talking about use-package? I've been using it for several years.

There is a long standing effort to have it merged into emacs/elpa, so we hope the situation will improve.

https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package/issues/282

• pylance-release

  50 1,652 9.0 Python

  Documentation and issues for Pylance

  

I hear what you're saying, as I regularly run up against the rough edges of emacs too, but buffers and org-mode are absolute gamechangers for me and my productivity.

I have ADHD, so not being able to switch between active files/tabs/whatever + my TODO list at lightning speed + having to constantly use the mouse devastates my productivity.

That's to speak nothing of the embrace-extend-extinguish behaviors Microsoft has been exhibiting in its development of VS Code -- e.g., deprecating their open source, editor-agnostic Python language server in favor of a proprietary, closed-source VSCode-only server[1].

I regularly update and play around with VSCode in an effort to keep an open min, but frankly I haven't found it to offer anything worth the trouble + spiritual taint (I'm saying this sort of tongue in cheek!) of switching

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/4

• OpenNefia

  4 99 9.6 Lua

  Discontinued (Archived) Moddable engine reimplementation of the Japanese roguelike Elona.

Well, it's not Elisp, but:

https://github.com/Ruin0x11/OpenNefia

It's an engine rewrite of an old roguelike I used to play in Lua. I'm trying to experiment with making a game where the engine is similar in flexibility to Emacs.

It has an Emacs frontend, and I designed it with the zealotry of an Emacs user, meaning it has advice, hooks, interactive evaluation and runtime module hotloading. You can run anything the engine can run from a REPL (and cause all the state to become broken easily).

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