My I3-Emacs Integration

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50 points | by nosolace 6 hours ago

4 comments

  • SubiculumCode 4 hours ago
    Side note: I am really enjoying HN today with the set of stories with personal hacks like this i3-emacs integration, someone's desk setup, someone's writer-deck laptop install, the kinda hilarious but also hecka geeky thermal ttrpg thingamabob, and the 16 byte wake up demo. Fun geeky stuff that isn't AI,and I love AI, but it ain't everything.
  • skulk 5 hours ago
    I've started using ewm to get this kind of unification between emacs window management and non-emacs window management.

    https://codeberg.org/ezemtsov/ewm

    • stebalien 2 hours ago
      I keep trying it (coming from EXWM) but I get lots of lag, stutters, and poor fractional scaling. I'm not sure how much of that is "GTK under wayland", Emacs's PGTK build (known to have lag/rendering issues), AMD kernel drivers (?), or EWM itself; but it's not yet a replacement for EXWM in my experience.
  • gigatexal 47 minutes ago
    Ah no video it action??

    Very interesting though. I don’t always read entire posts on blogs but this one I did. Lisp looks really interesting.

  • PunchyHamster 6 hours ago
    I just use super(win key)/hyper (bound to capslock) for i3-related commands and leave emacs to its own devices with normal binds
    • topaz0 2 hours ago
      That's fine as far as it goes, but I don't think that gets you what this article is for, which is things like using the same binding context-dependently to navigate between emacs splits and regular window manager windows, context-dependently. Which is a fun bit of overengineering.
    • noosphr 4 hours ago
      There can never be too many modifier keys:

      https://xcancel.com/octonion/status/1341113219142828039

    • rileymat2 5 hours ago
      Yes, I am misunderstanding the problem. The windows/mac command key leave shift, control and alt free for i3.
    • royal__ 5 hours ago
      Yeah this is what I do. This article feels like crazy overengineering for something that's not really a problem
      • dima55 5 hours ago
        A dedicated key for all window-manager things is what people that have thought about it do (I use the "windows" key). But keyboard manufacturers haven't thought about it, so sometimes reasonable things aren't possible. I don't know.