Emacs X Window Manager
github.comThere are screenshots on the wiki: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm/wiki
In all honestly this is all I've ever wanted out of a window manager.
Me too. I've been hoping someone would integrate webkit in Emacs. Then I could go full screen and that would cover 98% of what I want to do. This might be even better, except that these days I'm usually stuck in IntelliJ on OSX.
I've used Ratpoison in the past which seemed like a decent tiling WM. I don't have a ton of experience with it but the little I tried seemed to work as expected.
I've been using Ratpoison since like 2005 or something. Pause for a few years while I was using OS X, and then I'd just put everything in fullscreen or on different workspaces. The tiling stuff in Ratpoison works well enough, but it's not super sophisticated and personally I almost never use it except when I'm like transcribing something. I'm using Ratpoison on a high-DPI laptop right now, I just upped my DPI and use huge fonts and everything's in fullscreen. It's lovely!
Try i3. I did, and never looked back.
Awesome hack. I really need to try this sometime. I spent almost all of my digital life in Emacs anyway, so this could work out very well for my workflow.
I would love to run this. I'm a bit worried that there is only a "certain degree of concurrency" promised in the XELB library it's built on. Seems like there would be many ways for this to get blocked. `list-packages` might stall my whole system, not just Emacs.
This reminds me of SXEmacs : http://www.sxemacs.org/
Sweet baby Jesus, it has happened.
Emacs long ago (decades) expanded to read mail. There are probably multiple mail clients in GNU emacs now
I've gone from Gnus to Wanderlust finally settling on mu4e. The first two were probably more a gimmick where mu4e actually enables me to get things done.
One of those "gimmicks" has been working great for me the past 20+ years...
Yea, sorry, I should have said gimmick "for me" - they're all excellent applications, it's just that mu4e happened to be the one that better suited my situation.
I use the notmuch extension for Emacs (with mbsync for actually fetching the mail and msmtp for sending) and have been very happy with it.
I know. :) But I was hoping that the Great Emacs Envelopment won't happen.
I wouldn't be surprised if emacs was the original inspiration for Zawinski's Law.
Particularly since he has done so much for emacs and email.
Take that xemacs, all stuck inside your managed window.
Another Emacs-based window manager (http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/new-window-manager....) was featured on HN about 6 months ago:
Needs a text editor. Has anyone ported Vi?
Yes. Evil mode.
NB I'm not condoning editor warring. Just pointing out that one can use arguably the best bit of vi/vim in emacs (the keybindings).
I thought emacs already had an X11 window manager built-in.
In all seriousness, this is pretty cool, and it uses libxcb. Nice.
related: elisp x11 (in russian, but with screenshot): https://www.linux.org.ru/gallery/screenshots/7805904
Will have to try it on my mobile phone together with fso-el :) https://github.com/paulfertser/fso-el/wiki
Emacs is a great operating system, lacking only a decent editor :-P
Not anymore: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
Seriously though, this joke has unbeliveable staying power, despite being almost as old as emacs itself.
The problem with this joke is that Emacs is actually a terrible operating system: very poor concurrency support and no pre-emption.
emacs is a great operating system, it lacks a good editor though
M-x recycle-jokeshould be relatively trivial to install vim
...wow. I might just get off The bed and try it right now.
Does M-< C-@ M-> C-W delete all your windows?
See a doctor, you may be having a seizure.
M-x doctorRMS -vs- Doctor, on the evils of Natalism
Very impressive and very useful for certain Emacs workflows.
Also, something tells me the creator of this project and its users won't feel the need to spam HN and r/programming with regular updates on the progress of the project in an attempt to raise the profile of the language it was written in--unlike what we saw with a certain other tiling window manager a few years back.
As a happy emacs and xmonad power user, I'd love to see more of both!
Why so defensive?
Which window manager are you referring to ?
I'm going to assume from context that they're talking about xmonad.
In fact, there is already a Lisp (Common, not Emacs) tiling WM called StumpWM.
If you haven't heard of it yet, it's partly because the Lisp community isn't so embarrassingly insecure and desperate for anything they can pass off as a "killer app" (see Macsyma or Emacs itself) that they feel compelled to shove it down everyone's throat.
Why the attitude? Can we just sit down, relax, and enjoy the awesome hack that this is without being all "we're too cool for hacker news"? . I'm really glad someone shared this today as it really brought a smile to my face.
And that's exactly why Common Lisp is fading into obscurity while the "embarrassingly insecure" Clojure community is making the language take over.
The sad truth
Actually there are lots of X11 window managers in many languages.
If we look at Common Lisp, window managers are not new.
https://common-lisp.net/project/eclipse/
https://common-lisp.net/project/clfswm/
Well known is Stumpwm:
https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm/wiki
It's easy to write a minimal WM in Common Lisp:
I'm insecure and desperate for anything I can pass off as a "killer app" for Forth and pie menus, so here's an X10 window manager (yes, X10 not X11) with pie menus that's extensible in Forth:
Cool. Sure there was X10 in Lisp, too. ;-)
Robert Scheifler wrote an X10 server for the Lisp Machine.