Jack Rusher
Jack Rusher
@alandmoore To clarify: 1) There should be a pair of very good-looking default themes for emacs (dark and light), both of which are shipped with it, and between which it...
Technical sophisticated people often mistake "possible" for "easy". As @daveliepmann mentioned above, what's actually easy is very different for different users. There are certain things that new users are going...
Powerline isn't much code, and the potential for aesthetic improvement using it with some UTF-8 chars (which would also work in a modern terminal) is quite large.
I would lobby for CUA+. That is, the platform's default key bindings should do something like what a new user would expect, but we should build up more sophisticated features...
@phillord It's hard to imagine old schoolers willingly giving up their `C-` bindings for the arrow keys, innit? That leaves us with at least two sets. (I agree, though, that...
Emacs without something like `ido`/`ivy`/`helm` is just unnecessary cruelty.
@alandmoore "In my mind, emacs is primarily an editor/IDE for code" Many people compare emacs to [whichever editor/IDEs] because they view it primarily as a text editor for programmers. I...
@alandmoore I agree with you completely about making this clear. My goal for this project would be to make it easy for people to get into emacs as an editor,...
On a Mac, I use `M-s-arrow` (where the Super is bound to the `command` key) for windmove. On a Windows or Linux machine I'd probably do the same with the...
This would be an improvement.