I never used LT, but that description sounds like Emacs to me.

scrollaway · on Oct 1, 2014

Heh okay, emacs is extremely programmable. I don't really consider it an IDE but that's fair.

It'd take a long time to explain the differences but emacs is far from lightweight, it's a beast. LT is very barebones. And LT is written in HTML/CSS/CLJS which makes it stylable and programmable as such, a real advantage over emacs.

tuhdo · on Oct 3, 2014

You can customize style as much as you can. Take a look at Emacs theme gallery: http://pawelbx.github.io/emacs-theme-gallery/

Emacs is an IDE, first and foremost, to Emacs Lisp itself. Other Lisps are close. It's an excellent editors for other languages, and a good enough IDE for some languages. See my C/C++ guide in Emacs: http://tuhdo.github.io/c-ide.html.

Fyi, people wrote parsers, chat and email clients in Emacs that LT is still dreaming.