- ksh it's far better than sh, and I think Perl fixed the needs of a "medium" system scripting
language.
- Usenet it's still fun and a far better source than the web/stack overflow for some programming languages. Slrnpull it's a godsend.
- Current X it's far better, but XPra/x2Go should have been part of X.org, with far better features over the network
- GNU/Emacs it's the alternative from MIT/ITS/PDP-10 to Unix's 'worse it's better/KISS', but it's slower, error prone and easily deleted to much the .emacs file by itself with M-x customize -it deleted my (use-package) functions -. If Emacs' customize set the variables into the (use-package) funcs, it would be a great start.
We need a "Emacs haters handbook" (and I like Emacs itself as a concept, but it needs polishing:
(defun rant-start ()
"
- GNUS it's dog slow on -current day- sized mail boxes (> 100MB) and it will last an hour on big mail lists/Usenet spools. Mbsync/slrnpull helps but as I said anywhere else Maildir support in GNU's it's broken and it will only show some directories, if any. Even if 'new', 'cur' and 'tmp' are already there.
- RMail should had supported Maildir long ago. No, movemail it's not an option and the current mailboxes will choke on the Unix MBOX format.
- Unfocussing the minibuffer prompt shouldn't cancel it. For Mastodon password prompts (or any other one), switching to a pane/window in Exwm (almost mandatory) will force you to repeat the login process on mastodon.el from the start. That's atrocious.
- DIsplaying "big" images (relatively) it's slow, dog slow. IDK how pdf-tools does it (it works really fast and well), but doc-view it's a disaster and reading big CBZ files will crawl down Emacs.
Inb4 'Emacs it's an editor, focus on the text' Emacs comes up with Calc with has plotting support with Gnuplot and OFC it needs a proper image displaying method.
- Eww should support minimal CSS rules to parse at least simple pages as HN.
- Stop locking on I/O, period.
- The UI, even the Lucid/Athena port, it's not smooth at all even with some changes under some 'legacy' top-hier 32 bit machines, such as N270 netbooks. I'm missing something for sure.
- Emacs notifications shouldn't be bound to dbus, the notifiication system should allow using messages and a beep/sound file as a method to alert the user, or a custom made script or Elisp code.
Apart from your minibuffer issue, everything else is the fault of third party packages. Even IO, as I am told you can do async IO in elisp but practically no package does it.
- ksh it's far better than sh, and I think Perl fixed the needs of a "medium" system scripting language.
- Usenet it's still fun and a far better source than the web/stack overflow for some programming languages. Slrnpull it's a godsend.
- Current X it's far better, but XPra/x2Go should have been part of X.org, with far better features over the network
- GNU/Emacs it's the alternative from MIT/ITS/PDP-10 to Unix's 'worse it's better/KISS', but it's slower, error prone and easily deleted to much the .emacs file by itself with M-x customize -it deleted my (use-package) functions -. If Emacs' customize set the variables into the (use-package) funcs, it would be a great start.
We need a "Emacs haters handbook" (and I like Emacs itself as a concept, but it needs polishing:
(defun rant-start ()
" - GNUS it's dog slow on -current day- sized mail boxes (> 100MB) and it will last an hour on big mail lists/Usenet spools. Mbsync/slrnpull helps but as I said anywhere else Maildir support in GNU's it's broken and it will only show some directories, if any. Even if 'new', 'cur' and 'tmp' are already there.
- RMail should had supported Maildir long ago. No, movemail it's not an option and the current mailboxes will choke on the Unix MBOX format.
- Unfocussing the minibuffer prompt shouldn't cancel it. For Mastodon password prompts (or any other one), switching to a pane/window in Exwm (almost mandatory) will force you to repeat the login process on mastodon.el from the start. That's atrocious.
- DIsplaying "big" images (relatively) it's slow, dog slow. IDK how pdf-tools does it (it works really fast and well), but doc-view it's a disaster and reading big CBZ files will crawl down Emacs. Inb4 'Emacs it's an editor, focus on the text' Emacs comes up with Calc with has plotting support with Gnuplot and OFC it needs a proper image displaying method.
- Eww should support minimal CSS rules to parse at least simple pages as HN.
- Stop locking on I/O, period.
- The UI, even the Lucid/Athena port, it's not smooth at all even with some changes under some 'legacy' top-hier 32 bit machines, such as N270 netbooks. I'm missing something for sure.
- Emacs notifications shouldn't be bound to dbus, the notifiication system should allow using messages and a beep/sound file as a method to alert the user, or a custom made script or Elisp code.
" )