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Is this based on Hemlock, or was it written from scratch?

I really, really want a graphical emacs. By that I mean, I want an emacs with graphics, not an emacs in windows. I want to easily be able to draw stuff.

I ran into this the other day, I like to dabble in emacs, and I had a list of results I wanted to make a quick chart. I ended up dumping it out in a simple CSV, and copy/pasting that into a spreadsheet, and hitting "chart".

Would have been nice to go (line-chart my-list) and have a window pop up with reasonable defaults. And be able to print it to a PDF.

emacs has some SVG support, but I guess its maintainer whim whether you get it or not, I wasn't able to easily get it working on my Mac. That could be a start. But something "nicer" would be, you know, "nice".




Maybe this would interest you:

https://sqrtminusone.xyz/posts/2021-05-01-org-python/

(the very first screenshot is Emacs)


When building it, choose “make sdl2” to get the graphical UI. I also build the text UI, but the sdl2 UI is more fun and is very responsive. I didn’t see any ability to draw graphs in the window.


image-mode can render real images, so there should be a way to embed charts of some kind.




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