[osgovernment]

Emacs is meant to really be a text-editor. I'm all for utilizing Emacs and Vim to do unique things, like ledgers and time tracking, since those are essentially markup formats for text editing. However, crosswords just seems more or less like playing games in Vim. It is cool and all, like I said, but it seems much better suited for at least a semi-interactive text-based CLI app.

I applaud the developer regardless, but I personally would be much more keen on using this if it was standalone and not dependent on Emacs.

[ashton314]

> Emacs is meant to really be a text-editor.

That’s where you’re wrong, kiddo. ;-P emacs is an interactive Lisp environment that incidentally ok at editing text. I remember someone making the argument that Emacs is a great application platform, because it provides an extremely consistent API across all operating systems.

[stretchcat]

Crosswords are grid based word games. A text editor displays text in a grid. It seems like a great fit to me.

[yakubin]

Not necessarily. Acme displays variable-width fonts just fine.

However, Emacs is not just a text editor, so it shouldn't be judged solely as a text editor.

[stretchcat]

Emacs also can display proportional fonts fine. But it's proficiency with fixed-width fonts seems most relevant for crosswords.

[Jkvngt]

Emacs is the last remaining original era Lisp Machine actually. Symbolics died, Xerox Parc's defunct, etc. But emacs lives on.