Chris Wellons • 4/26/2026

I have officially retired from Emacs

This article details the author's retirement from Emacs after 20 years of daily use, transitioning to modal editing and Vim. The author describes replacing key Emacs applications with native C++ GUI tools built using wxWidgets and Dear ImGui, specifically stackcalc (a calculator clone using GMP/MPFR) and Elfeed2 (a feed reader). The post also calls for new maintainers for several Emacs packages and discusses technical decisions around toolkit choices for multi-platform applications. It is highly relevant to IT/technology, focusing on software development, tool migration, and open-source maintenance.

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#vim #modal editing #Emac