SX – Stack Exchange mode for Emacs

[brudgers]

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

[catern]

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

[vermiculus]

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

[julienchastang]

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.

[hammerandtongs]

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

*can even include a real editor like Evil :)

[brudgers]

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

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

[bigfaceworm]

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

[theophrastus]

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]

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

[vermiculus]

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...)

[halosghost]

Now I just need something like this for vim :D

[Jonovono]

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

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

[catern]

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

[halosghost]

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…

[billturner]

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