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While I'm not an Emacs user I like the philosophy of it. And I like text editors.

That said, I use orgmode on android (orgzly) and used it on sublime text (orgextended), that's a nice feature. I know one guy who uses emacs and when I heard of lem (https://github.com/lem-project/lem) I told him. (Lem is also in CL)

He was quite enthusiastic of it, but 2 or 3 things were missing at the time, the first of all you guessed it, it's org-mode, second was magit but he could use lem without it and finally it was a plugin manager (but we agreed it is a lot of work).

I don't know what are your plans but I hope I could give you some ideas.

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> magit

Since last year we have what's a start of Magit in Lem: https://lem-project.github.io/usage/usage/#version-control-w...

It has a status buffer, it can push/pull/commit, stage files and parts of hunks (no arbitrary region yet), list commits (with a handy pagination), manage stashes, do an interactive rebase (no reword yet). It's fast for big codebases (linux kernel) as it doesn't call the git binary a lot. We watch the performance and we have plans to read git blobs natively. I contributed it (https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/oh-no-i-started-a-magit-...). Working on it is a pleasure as the Lem codebase is very clean and introspectable (and specially so through Lem).

I like the name ‘legit’ for your project and I look forward to trying it.

To be honest, I live in regular Emacs for all productivity things, but I have also spent a fair amount of time using Lem when coding in Common Lisp. Such a cool project!

Thanks for your input! I don't org-mode myself but I know it's a killer feature for many. In fact, I think if someone commit to it, they can likely build an even more powerful version of org-mode with a lot less and cleaner code, because Neomacs use arbitrary HTML DOM as its editing representation, and no need for regex/text-property hack. See https://github.com/neomacs-project/neomacs/issues/53 for an example.

That being said, Neomacs definitely need a user base and eco-system for that to happen, but I hope so!

As for magit, I wish one day Neomacs get one as well. For now one can use Neomacs's built in terminal for git.

If you're not using the Orgzly Revived fork then I recommend giving it a try.

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