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26 pointsjacktasia9 comments

This is great and all, but it’s yet another Emacs mode for a Software-as-a-service.

Viewed purely as an image manipulation tool, I have real trouble seeing a good reason why this couldn’t be done locally using Cairo. Viewed as an Imgix parameter previewer, I don’t see why you wouldn’t simply use Imgix directly via a web browser.

I made this for fun as a side project, because I love emacs and imgix (I work there). You're probably right that this could be done using Cairo, but I'd be shocked if you could do it as easily as you can with imgix.

Yes, you can use imgix directly via the web browser, but for building complex URLs this is way faster (especially if you're an experienced emacs user). Think encoding and moving between parameters of a super long URL.

because emacs-fu

They're stocking up for the next Emacs vs Vim thread.

>I don’t see why you wouldn’t simply use Imgix directly via a web browser.

I don't see why I'd want to do it in a web browser when I can simply do it directly in Emacs :)

Imgix is a image web hosting service. I’d assume that anyone wanting to use such a thing would be perfectly at home using a web browser.

This is great! I can barely remember my editor/IDE days before Emacs. I mean there was nano, pico, vi, vim, Gedit, and on to Eclipse, but Emacs was the only one that allowed me to work the way that I think.

I can remember my days before emacs, it was about six months of vi back in 1990. Been emacs ever since :)

I don't know much about imgix, looks like a service to add to or possibly enhance images? Demo looks neat though! I do use emacs as an asset browser for quick looks at images to verify content in web apps, but I'm not sure I'd use something like this personally.

Ha! In my early days of computing, when we had to walk to school uphill both ways, 5 miles in the snow, going from punch cards in 1977 to line editors was fantastic, I first used original "ed" in 1978, with it's one error message of "?" (it was developed in the days when 110 baud Teletype terminals put an extreme premium on every character typed and printed), some random ones in micros, then EMACS was a fantastic improvement in 1979-80. And I haven't looked back.

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