frontmacs

There are a few projects that do this, but I think there's certainly room for more. I'd love to see one focused on using the Zettelkasten method. Here are three I'm aware of: Scimax: https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax Emacs Speaks Statistics: https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS Frontmacs: https://github.com/thefrontside/frontmacs So long as these approaches expose the full power of Emacs to their users, I can't imagine the UX being as rock-solid as we might expect from modern purpose-built tools (e.g. PyCharm, Overleaf, Obsidian, ...). It might help to hide/disable most default interactive functions, which provide a huge surface area for non-Emacsers to break things. Emacs actually does this by default for a few functions: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DisabledCommands Also relevant here is wakib-keys: https://github.com/darkstego/wakib-k

(edit: reposted this comment in their bug tracker) You might want to warn people that this enables auto-saving buffers on many buffer/frame events that are usually considered safe. https://github.com/thefrontside/frontmacs/blob/master/frontm... (defadvice switch-to-buffer (before save-buffer-now activate) (when buffer-file-name (save-buffer))) ; the same defadvice is applied to: ; other-window ; windmove-{up,down,left,right} This absolutely needs a warning. (add-hook 'focus-out-hook (lambda () (when buffer-file-name (save-buffer)))) Also, maybe this should only happen to buffers that are already backed up in the VCS? Saving unknown changes back to the original file whenever the frame looses focus - which can happen due to external, unpredictable events - seems lik