Emacs and Vim Combined In New 'Spacemacs' Distro (spacemacs.org)

Long-time Slashdot reader Qbertino brings news of a new text editor offering what he calls "a modern, hipster-compliant makeover" of both Emacs and Vim: As a classic, perhaps the classic GNU project, Emacs has been marred by abysmal branding and marketing...that has improved slightly but might still leave some people unsatisfied [and] has also been engulfed in an eternal war with Vim, the editor of the beast. Mope no further, salvation is nigh! Spacemacs is a new Emacs distribution that aims to combine all the goodies of Emacs and Vim and then some...
Version .2 of Spacemacs was released this week "with more than 1700 commits since the last major version released in January 2016." With nearly 500 contributors on GItHub, Spacemacs plans to be "crowd-configured" with "curated packages tuned by power users," and is offering features like a real-time display of available key bindings, a simple query system for layers and packages, and of course, a clearly defined set of conventions.

Comments

Re: Hipster compliant?

[VanGarrett]

Jesus' real name, if you wanted to translate it by the same rules as has been done with other people who had that name in the Bible, is Joshua.

The trouble is that Jesus' message is largely misunderstood. People get tied up in obedience and the Hell-and-Damnation, self-righteous preaching style of modern evangelists. They tend to think that this is what Christianity is about, and you're most certainly right-- if Christ were to walk among us today in the way that he walked among the Romans, he'd be flipping tables at a great deal of American churches, just as he did with the Pharisees. Occasionally though, you do encounter a congregation that gets it right-- where they understand that Jesus' message had to do with love. That God loves us, and that we should show our love for Him, by loving eachother. Even Christ's sacrifice is misunderstood; people compare it to the Jews sacrificing doves and lambs to God, but really it's more like Abraham sacrificing his son to God; except that in Jesus' case, the roles are reversed. We didn't sacrifice God's son to God, but God sacrificed His son to us. That's what people don't get. The whole point of the thing is that we are more important to Him than anything else, including His own flesh.

Does that sound more like something you might be able to get into?

Re: Hipster compliant?

[argumentsockpuppet]

I'll bite.

Peter had a tendency to use bad language. He let his temper flare when it did no good. When confronted with a test of his faith, he buckled. I can see myself in his failures. Thomas saw people fed when it was impossible, saw people healed and knew Jesus. Yet when told that Jesus was alive, refused to accept the possibility of another miracle. He went so far as to say he would never believe unless he could touch the pierced flesh of Jesus himself. If there's anyone I see myself in, it's not Jesus, it's Thomas.

Of course Christians want to be like Jesus, but we don't act like him. We act like the people he loved and forgave. Over and over, we act like them and we have faith he forgives us too. The story the Bible tells is about people who fail as often as not.

I call myself a Christian, not because I act like Christ, but because I believe I should act like Christ. And because I believe Jesus forgives me for failing.

I've believed a lot of things that I no longer believe. As many times as I've gotten things wrong, I'm sure I still have a lot of things wrong now. I have done things, and I continue to do things, I regret. I think Yeshu will have to forgive me for getting his name wrong too, but considering my track record, I think that's the least of my transgressions.

If Christians were more like Jesus, if they went around challenging the status quo and overly-rigid thinking and pushing people to think critically, then I would really like that religion.

Me too. Meanwhile, I (try to) stick with something I was taught a long time ago. I do the best I can, where I am, with what I have.