Ymacs
Dev tools
browser editor
SHOW HN2012
125points
45comments
#159of 1,677 in 2012
Top 10%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
6 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 9 critical, out of 27 comments about the project. Thread score -0.09.
Execution: 2 for, 5 againstIdea: 3 for, 3 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Cool attempt and fun to see Emacs in a browser
From 3 comments
I am sad, there is no M-x tetris... In seriousness, this is quite a cool attempt. For some reason, using an international keyboard with the application prevents me from ever…
sukuriant on HNmind blown
lefnire on HNMy feedback is targeted at the ymacs demos giving a better "first impression", which at this point might be the only one allowed for many. I am taking the time because that's the…
anaran on HN
Objections
Missing many Emacs commands and features
From 3 comments
It's not emacs (I guess it's "an emacs"). It's an editor that does syntax coloring, handles the core emacs keystrokes, and implements the subset of GNU emacs functionality that…
ajross on HNEmacsLisp is also missing.
pjmlp on HNMy feedback is targeted at the ymacs demos giving a better "first impression", which at this point might be the only one allowed for many. I am taking the time because that's the…
anaran on HN
Browser shortcuts like C-n, C-w and C-k conflict with Emacs keys
From 3 comments
C-k (the most useful command ever) is captured by my browser. Google Chrome.
danielweber on HNShortcut (i.e. key binding) conflicts with the web browser like C-n (new-line) make it unusable for me.
foobarqux on HNman great but control-w close the browser window not cool!
samuel1604 on HN
Serious Emacs users are not the target audience
From 1 comment
It's not emacs (I guess it's "an emacs"). It's an editor that does syntax coloring, handles the core emacs keystrokes, and implements the subset of GNU emacs functionality that…
ajross on HN
Requests
Implement an Elisp interpreter
From 1 comment
Good start. What's the timeline for the elisp interpreter? :-)
Estragon on HN
Support Vim
From 1 comment
Now how about Vim?
geogra4 on HN
Fix C-x C-b and M-x help commands
From 1 comment
My feedback is targeted at the ymacs demos giving a better "first impression", which at this point might be the only one allowed for many. I am taking the time because that's the…
anaran on HN
Questions
Can org-mode files be supported
From 1 comment
Very nice! I was seriosuly missing something like this, especially for my org-files. A few times a week I want to add or change something to my todo.org but I can't because I'm…
Bootvis on HN
Alternatives named
Running Emacs locally with tramp over ssh
From 1 comment
You might not even need to implement all of emacs, just emacsclient and have the emacs daemon running on the server. But why does everything need to run in the browser? You have…
ams6110 on HN
Vim in the browser
From 1 comment
Saw something on HN a couple weeks ago. http://mit.edu/~georgiou/www/vi/
liyanchang on HN