SX – Stack Exchange mode for Emacs

https://github.com/vermiculus/sx.el/blob/master/README.org

by brudgers • 11 years ago

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hammerandtongs• 11 years ago

A good example of Emacs as a platform* for building a true "IDE" for a workflow.

*can even include a real editor like Evil :)

brudgers3• 11 years ago

Besides, the determined Real Programmer can write FORTRAN programs in any language.

[1] http://www.webcitation.org/659yh1oSh

julienchastang• 11 years ago

I've been using this mode with good results. As a developer, it is great when you can stay within emacs and/or tmux for most of your daily work activities.

bigfaceworm• 11 years ago

Wow, this might be enough to bring me back to using Stack Exchange!

halosghost4• 11 years ago

Now I just need something like this for vim :D

billturner2• 11 years ago

There's one in beta: http://vi.stackexchange.com/

pablasso• 11 years ago

Did you actually saw the link?

catern3• 11 years ago

If you want to use things like this, why are you using vim? Honest question.

halosghost4• 11 years ago

No, you're looking at it the wrong way. It's not that I want to use things like this and pick vim. It's that I want to use vim, but am entertained by the notion of this (you're just assuming my priorities are the other way around).

In an ideal world, I wouldn't actually want this in vim, I'd want this as a separate ncurses application.

Jonovono• 11 years ago

Here, be free! https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs

I just discovered this the other day, it's awesome.

halosghost4• 11 years ago

Interesting, the random down-votes. Did y'all really down-vote because you hate vim? I didn't say I hated emacs, I didn't even imply that emacs was bad in any way.

Users here seem to read way more into my comments than they should…

brudgers3• 11 years ago

Some readers may have downvoted the comment in the belief that it was potentially detrimental to fostering meaningful discussion. Even a kind reading would classify it is as random noise. Nobody is going to read it and come away smarter or better informed. They may however come away inflamed.

Because the strength of VIM's design stems from Unix's do-one-thing-well principle, on naive reading The comment is a technical non-starter.

Finally, on HN, a VIM versus EMACS comment stands a reasonable chance of having been read by people who fought in the editor wars. That's one of the amazing things about this community. I've been downvoted for similar comments. My advice is to write better comments - complaints about downvotes aren't better - even though it's hard work.

Good luck.

brudgers3• 11 years ago

I've been wondering: Is Emacs the right "app store" for reaching developers with your new developer tool?

vermiculus2• 11 years ago

I wonder that myself. It's apparently a good way to get your name out there :)

catern3• 11 years ago

Yes! "Emacs as an application platform" is a really great way to quickly write text-focused, keyboard-controlled applications (as most developer tools are). It even has graphical support in addition to running in the terminal, so you can use it wherever you would otherwise use ncurses as a straight upgrade. (As I recommend at the end of here[0])

[0] http://catern.com/posts/terminal_quirks.html

theophrastus2• 11 years ago

hm... "SX is now available on MELPA! Both the stable release and the development version can be found there."

so [M-x package-install RET sx RET=]... "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/sx-20150308.1245.tar: Not found"

(probably something misunderstood by me)

OvidNaso• 11 years ago

Try =package-refresh-contents=. When this happens it means the package was probably updated since last package.el was refreshed.

vermiculus2• 11 years ago

I'd personally recommend against using the MELPA-stable version -- the package hasn't been tagged in a long while. (...that needs to happen soon...)

theophrastus2• 11 years ago

i did that and am now rewarded with: "Fatal error: The TLS connection was non-properly terminated" which is apparently well documented and unfixed: https://github.com/nicferrier/elmarmalade/issues/55

ah well. thank you nonetheless.

SX – Stack Exchange mode for Emacs

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