Teaching an old Bovine Gnu Tricks: What's next for Emacs?
summary
A GTK3/GDK port replaces Emacs’s old X-centric display path with a pure GTK3 GDK backend using Cairo, solving Wayland quirks (no global coordinates) by treating the editor area as a widget and fudging some events; the effort compresses hundreds of commits into ~58 change files and 16,000 lines changed, becomes a daily-driver on Wayland for months, raises memory use slightly, and leaves redisplay and input-event compatibility as the main unresolved nasties while native compilation (libgccjit) continues to speed Lisp-heavy code.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 1:42Release of Emacs
- 2:14Tabs
- 5:12Why Am I Using Emacs
- 7:01What Is Emacs as a Thing
- 18:23Emacs Widget
- 20:13Gtk Input Management Method
- 21:05Core Challenges on Emacs
- 26:13Integration
- 30:29Where Does Udk Emax Go Next
- 37:46Libgccit as a Back End Compiler for Emacs
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