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ergoemacs-mode
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Better toolbar #387

Closed mattfidler closed 3 years ago

mattfidler commented 8 years ago

Maybe variant of Notepad++ tool bar:

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What do you think @xahlee

mattfidler commented 8 years ago

Other images: image

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mattfidler commented 8 years ago

I think the icons are located at:

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/tree/master/PowerEditor/src/icons

xahlee commented 8 years ago

ugh, i think it's ugly... well, i think it's something i'd never consider, because what i had in mind of ideal emacs is, utmost efficiency.

adding a tool bar like that would be a different direction than my personal ideal. I think it would make emacs appear to some people. Many features of emacs takes months to discover will become apparent from the start. Perhaps optional on/off, i don't see why not. On the other hand, the very existence of this bar, will become a laughing stock for many hard core emacses to point at ergoemacs, i think, even ergoemacs is far more hacker efficient than plain gnu emacs. (but again, default emacs also has a tool bar. So, i think in the end, i vote for go with it.)

mattfidler commented 8 years ago

True. Another similar project to ergoemacs-mode (as far as modernization) is aqua-emacs, which has also changed the tool bar.

I agree that ergoemacs-mode is also more hacker efficient, and hackers don't typically use a tool bar. Both Sublime and Textmate didn't have a tool bar (as far as I can tell)

mattfidler commented 8 years ago

I also find macro recording from a button to be useful, otherwise they have to assign or use the ugly emacs keys.

mattfidler commented 8 years ago

The other issue is the size of the icons. The rest of emacs assumes the large sized images, so it may not work.