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   Lars Brinkhoff (larsbrinkhoff@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Apr-2026 15:03:59 JST Lars Brinkhoff

   Hot take? Every editable text field should be an Emacs buffer. I don't want your semi-arsed Emacs keybindings, I want the full thing.

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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Apr-2026 15:56:55 JST Janneke

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     And M-x should open the minibuffer

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jun-2026 11:38:10 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @larsbrinkhoff @jwz
     Why stop there?

     Emacs is practically an OS unto itself, so why not make every text field a separate virtual operating system? It boots when displayed. Its initial text appears to it as ROM. Mouse and keyboard events appear to it as network traffic; this is also how it publishes changes to its content. Now every text field in a form can panic independently!

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jun-2026 14:02:29 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @larsbrinkhoff

     (Just to be clear, I was being purposefully ridiculous!)

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     Lars Brinkhoff (larsbrinkhoff@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jun-2026 14:02:30 JST Lars Brinkhoff

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     • Paul Cantrell

     @inthehands @jwz This sounds like fun, but impractical. If you want the hack value, go for it!

     As for me, I just want to edit text in style. That's the problem I'd like to solve.