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I had forgotten about the "quiet time" of Sublime. It felt like a repeat of the Textmate downtime.

I had also forgotten about VSCode. I like having a GUI editor handy in my dock for quickly opening something drag-n-drop style. And most of the editors I can see in there right now are a little laggy (I'm looking at you Atom, and you, Brackets) so VSCode is now downloading for a quick test.

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Emacs will respond to a file's being dropped onto its dock icon (and the response can be whatever Lisp code you want) but of course there has to be an Emacs icon in the Dock, which means the Emacs cannot be running "inside" a terminal.

If you enable server-mode you can run gui emacs to get the icon in the doc and pop up a gui window when you drop something on it, while also connecting in a terminal.

Waiting for the Emacs chorded key command for hacking your ocular nerve to capture which icon you are staying at to then open your file...

You're joking, but I recently thought about the idea that we could actually use the advent of cheap eye tracking software for gaming to write an EasyMotion-like plugin that moves the cursor to the position on the screen you're currently looking at.

For now, this will sadly likely keep to prove difficult since the driver situation on linux isn't really good yet.

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