Everything except for the on screen keyboard honestly sounds like it'd find a
better fit for you by just learning emacs lisp. I'm having a harder time
understanding what exactly you want to make, probably because I've never really
encountered your use case.
Factor is powerful, fast, and generates nice binaries though. So if you do end
up making a suite of tools they'll probably be fairly small and nimble. Its
totally up to you. I moved over from common lisp and scheme and now almost
entirely mess around with Factor exclusively. I really like the mindset of the
Forth style.
That being said there is a GUI, and the ffi is fabulous of you need to use a c
library in making your tools.
Best of luck,
Jack
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On May 19, 2019, 10:19 PM, Andrew McDowell wrote:
> Thanks Александр,
>
> I expect I need to let go of some of the fancier ideas I have for this, and
> just develop the basic components using tools at hand. I think some of what
> I’m after might come under the heading of file editing, as opposed to text
> editing, as I want to nimbly pick up and toss around blocks of text from
> multiple files, more efficiently than laborious copy/paste, and I haven’t
> found an application that does that well. Sounds like projectile goes a ways
> on that sort of thing.
>
> Appreciate the ideas, and if anyone has any further suggestions for tools,
> etc, let me know.
>
> Andy
>
>> On May 18, 2019, at 6:56 AM, Alexander Ilin <ajs...@yandex.ru> wrote:
>>
>> Hello, Andy!
>>
>> From my point of view, and from the software experience that I have (both as
>> user and as developer), it seems to me that you could get a lot of the
>> benefits you are looking for from Spacemacs with org-mode and projectile.
>> That's where I'd be heading with these requirements, and then I'd adapt
>> those to my needs, since the source is available, the LISP language is quite
>> nice to work with, and the community is there to provide some guidance and
>> support.
>>
>> If you want to go completely crazy with this, dive into Plan 9 or Project
>> Oberon (the latter could be simpler for a novice), but I'm not sure how much
>> support you could get there. You'd probably need to become a full-time
>> developer to understand and modify those systems to your needs.
>>
>> Returning to Spacemacs, org-mode would give you the no-mouse-needed
>> structured capabilities (GTD, PIM, etc.), and you could work exactly like
>> what Ginko offers if you opened the same file with different levels of
>> unfolding in three vertical columns (or "windows", as they are called in
>> Emacs). Projectile would let you search your (text) files with ease and
>> organize them into projects.
>>
>> Here's a well-regarded org-mode tutorial in case you want to take this route:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQS06Qjnkcc&list=PLVtKhBrRV_ZkPnBtt_TD1Cs9PJlU0IIdE
>>
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