Re: Linux 6.11

On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 07:43:45 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

Can’t speak for vim (Which vim? There are so many of them), but Emacs
certainly can make use of a GUI. You can open multiple Emacs windows.
You can click and drag to select. You can cut/copy/paste between an
Emacs window and a window of another GUI app. You can use the mouse
wheel to scroll. You can display fancy “attributes” attached to text in
a buffer --
that includes defining clickable buttons, almost as though it were a GUI
toolkit.

https://www.vim.org/

afaik that is the one and only 'vim'. What I have used for close to 30
years is gVim, the GUI version. I very seldom use the menubar options but
the GUI allows spawning multiple windows like you mention without losing
the console. Using "* for the buffer allows copy/paste to the system
clipboard. I also use the vim extension in VS Code. There is a vim package
for Visual Studio that I have used in the past. There is a 'neovim' but
I've not used it.

The last time I looked at emacs was a long time ago but it was the GUI
version. Unlike gVim the menu options were what made it usable for me
since I never was proficient with all the three finger salutes. There are
emacs keybindings for VS Code but there isn't any new activity.

https://github.com/SebastianZaha/vscode-emacs-friendly