[rasur]

With respect, you should learn Lisp - it will allow you to turn Emacs into whatever you want. In my opinion just keeping the Emacs keybindings but dropping all the other advantages of Emacs is missing the point entirely, and using Electron instead is just - as the saying goes - "adding insult to injury".

[kurouna]

Thank you for your candid feedback. I completely agree with your point—the true power of Emacs lies in its Lisp environment and infinite customizability.

If my goal was to build a true successor or alternative to Emacs, dropping Lisp and using Electron would indeed be a completely wrong approach.

However, my goal was much simpler and narrower. I wanted a zero-setup, standalone notepad that natively supports Emacs' complex prefix keybindings (like C-x 2 to split windows or C-x b to switch buffers) right out of the box. While simple keys like C-n or C-f can be easily configured in most modern editors, perfectly replicating the sequence and feel of prefix keys usually requires installing plugins and writing complex configurations.

Additionally, as I mentioned in another thread, using web technologies allowed me to solve the Japanese IME cursor tracking issues on Windows natively.

So you are absolutely right: this project misses the core philosophy of what makes Emacs great. But for my specific daily need—a lightweight notepad with built-in Emacs muscle memory—it perfectly scratches my own itch.

[rasur]

I do (also sometimes) use Emacs on Windows, but I must admit I have little experience of the issues surrounding Japanese textual input (I've not checked but I would have automaticaly assumed "there's an Emacs mode for that", but perhaps not) - without that additional requirement just a plain old basic Emacs would have worked out of the box, no?

But anyway, good luck in your travels in scratching that itch! :)

[mrweasel]

I was going to ask. I'm not big on Emacs, but ripping out Lisp isn't that removing the part that makes Emacs Emacs? Like, they removed the important part.

[rasur]

Pretty much yes. Emacs is basically a Lisp execution environment with a customisable text-editor included.