From 532bc5cda6dc0f094e9adcfdadfdc7bf435779f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sacha Chua Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 00:30:50 -0500 Subject: Add day 1 IRC notes --- 2021/talks/design.md | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to '2021/talks/design.md') diff --git a/2021/talks/design.md b/2021/talks/design.md index 71ba4652..943114b4 100644 --- a/2021/talks/design.md +++ b/2021/talks/design.md @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ alternatives using GNU Emacs. 1. Review of a "modern" code editor (5mn) 2. Introduction of an alternative using Emacs (5mn) -## Links from the slides: +# Links from the slides: * [Elegant Emacs](https://github.com/rougier/elegant-emacs) (https://github.com/rougier/elegant-emacs) * [On the Design of Text Editors](https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06030) (https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06030) @@ -36,7 +36,30 @@ alternatives using GNU Emacs. * [nano-modeline (ELPA)](https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/nano-modeline.html) (https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/nano-modeline.html) * [nano-agenda (ELPA)](https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/nano-agenda.html) (https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/nano-agenda.html) -## Contact information +# Discussion + +- What's this theme? +- i'll be sharing this with my friends that praise on vscode +- Wow, incredible analysis of that editor. +- looks beautiful +- how much of that is just bigger margins and roboto though? +- I love nano Emacs. I use it too +- i wonder if I can steal the splash screen and header line +- I really think that the default emacs theme could use this kind of effort and scrutiny in order to improve it +- A4: good idea, but few people have A4 *screens*... +- holy crap it looks so good +- yet again, though, the contrast is awful! black and white, please, not light grey and not-quite-so-light grey. it's almost unreadable, IMHO +- How hard would it be to integrate nano emacs changes with the default emacs? Like, would there be a lot of pushback? + - of course! there was massive pushbac over using curly quotes, for goodness' sake +- Are you aware of the modus-themes and what are your thoughts after contrast and accessibility? + - yeah, i just love modus themes by Prot because i'm colorblind and the fact that it has a strict contrast ratio is really really helpful, but even on modus themes i have to set success, error and warning to some really strong colors like pure red, green and blue + - I'm *not* colourblind and having high contrast is still good! there's a reason books are black on white, not grey on grey. or at least the background and body-text foreground must be highly distinct + - protesilaos: there are also options for deuteranopia, in case you need them (will need to refactor them for simplicity's sake) +- What Nicolas Rougier does is most welcome. Emacs can benefit a lot from such work. +- hmmm maybe Emacs needs to be able to handle WOFF! sounds like a job for fontconfig, I might look at it some day +- Nano Emacs + modus-themes would be a perfect combination, as it were. + +# Contact information * Contact [nicolas.rougier@inria.fr](mailto:nicolas.rougier@inria.fr) * Follow my work at [github.com/rougier](https://github.com/rougier) * Support my work at [github.com/sponsors/rougier](https://github.com/sponsors/rougier) or [en.liberapay.com/rougier/](https://en.liberapay.com/rougier/) -- cgit v1.2.3