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whitphx / vscode-emacs-mcx

vscode-emacs-mcx

Awesome Emacs Keymap - VSCode emacs keybinding with multi cursor support

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2Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
538GitHub stars
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What it is

Awesome Emacs Keymap - VSCode emacs keybinding with multi cursor support

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

Hi Mickey, ah no -- you've done WAY more than me in this area! I had been meaning to try your combobulate package. FWIW: after 20 years of Emacs I personally switched to VSCode…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2022-11-26 21:05:03 UTC to 2023-08-30 18:49:52 UTC.

012022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 20222022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMar 20232023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 2023

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What Hacker News says

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I normally hate web-based desktop apps with a passion, but VS Code on Mac made me switch from Emacs after 25 years of continous usage. (Hat tip to 'Awesome Emacs Keymap - VSCode emacs keybinding with multi cursor support' - https://github.com/whitphx/vscode-emacs-mcx.) I can see how they want to focus on that. Can't wait for Microsoft to ruin it, like they always do with all great apps eventually. Presumably as the awesome people who created them moved on, instead of doing 'maintenance'. And then that pressure for increased monetization. I have a feeling Emacs will always be there if they do, though.
In Microsoft is discontinuing Visual Studio for Mac after major overhaul
Myrmornis·Nov 26, 2022Recommendation phrase
Hi Mickey, ah no -- you've done WAY more than me in this area! I had been meaning to try your combobulate package. FWIW: after 20 years of Emacs I personally switched to VSCode a couple of years ago because I felt that in Emacs I was missing out on the LSP experience that VSCode provided in Rust, Typescript, Scala, etc. (I was using Eglot). In any case, there's a very nice Emacs emulation mode in VSCode https://github.com/whitphx/vscode-emacs-mcx which includes some paredit functionality courtesy of https://robert.kra.hn/past-projects/paredit-js.html and I'm working on porting my favorite paredit function, paredit-kill. Unfortunately that's the one where the paredit author left this comment in the code: ;;; Please do not try to understand this code unless you have a VERY ;;; good reason to do so. I gave up trying to figure it out wel
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l ;;; enough to explain it, long ago.
In Paredit 25 released, after 8 years

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