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I started using EXWM, the Emacs X Window Manager, a few weeks ago, and it is by far my favorite window manager yet. It is the ultimate anti-desktop: all windows just become Emacs buffers. Since terminal windows are just Emacs buffers, managing terminal windows is exactly like managing X windows.

After almost 20 years of: Enlightenment, Blackbox, Window Maker, StumpWM (only tiling window manager I could stand to use until EXWM), too much twm, Openbox most recently, and a few others I forget, EXWM feels really refreshing.

https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm



There's an Emacs WM, but not a decent text editor yet?


Sure there is, it's called evil-mode :)


Linus has more polishing yet to do.


You mean RMS?


Possibly a reference to microEmacs, of which Linus maintains his own fork (though the last commit was in 2014) [1].

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/editors/uemacs/uemacs.git/


I used it for a while and really liked it, except for a couple snafus: modefulness, in terms of how keystrokes are interpreted, and my Java IDE did not love it.

Otherwise it is fantastic.




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