Me too. I've been hoping someone would integrate webkit in Emacs. Then I could go full screen and that would cover 98% of what I want to do. This might be even better, except that these days I'm usually stuck in IntelliJ on OSX.
I've used Ratpoison in the past which seemed like a decent tiling WM. I don't have a ton of experience with it but the little I tried seemed to work as expected.
I've been using Ratpoison since like 2005 or something. Pause for a few years while I was using OS X, and then I'd just put everything in fullscreen or on different workspaces. The tiling stuff in Ratpoison works well enough, but it's not super sophisticated and personally I almost never use it except when I'm like transcribing something. I'm using Ratpoison on a high-DPI laptop right now, I just upped my DPI and use huge fonts and everything's in fullscreen. It's lovely!
Awesome hack. I really need to try this sometime. I spent almost all of my digital life in Emacs anyway, so this could work out very well for my workflow.
I would love to run this. I'm a bit worried that there is only a "certain degree of concurrency" promised in the XELB library it's built on. Seems like there would be many ways for this to get blocked. `list-packages` might stall my whole system, not just Emacs.
I've gone from Gnus to Wanderlust finally settling on mu4e. The first two were probably more a gimmick where mu4e actually enables me to get things done.
Yea, sorry, I should have said gimmick "for me" - they're all excellent applications, it's just that mu4e happened to be the one that better suited my situation.
Very impressive and very useful for certain Emacs workflows.
Also, something tells me the creator of this project and its users won't feel the need to spam HN and r/programming with regular updates on the progress of the project in an attempt to raise the profile of the language it was written in--unlike what we saw with a certain other tiling window manager a few years back.
In fact, there is already a Lisp (Common, not Emacs) tiling WM called StumpWM.
If you haven't heard of it yet, it's partly because the Lisp community isn't so embarrassingly insecure and desperate for anything they can pass off as a "killer app" (see Macsyma or Emacs itself) that they feel compelled to shove it down everyone's throat.
Why the attitude? Can we just sit down, relax, and enjoy the awesome hack that this is without being all "we're too cool for hacker news"? . I'm really glad someone shared this today as it really brought a smile to my face.
I'm insecure and desperate for anything I can pass off as a "killer app" for Forth and pie menus, so here's an X10 window manager (yes, X10 not X11) with pie menus that's extensible in Forth:
