[shadowgovt]

Modern emacs is surprisingly powerful, far from "Doom on a pregnancy test" (image display and UI widgets are just features).

Looking at the code for this solution (https://github.com/xenodium/dotsies/blob/main/emacs/ar/video...), it's under 400 lines (excluding the require of three very common libraries and an ffmpeg dependency). I'm not actually sure I could pull off this feature in 400 lines of JavaScript (and the binding logic for going from node to ffmpeg isn't going to come to my fingertips nearly as fast as the logic for emacs LISP, although I know that varies from person-to-person).

Plus, once it's in emacs it can glue to other things. If I want to grab video from an email and trim it, I have tools in emacs to fetch particular emails, etc.

I think the most reasonable way to think about emacs hacks like this is "I could do this in a shell script... But why would I when emacs gives me interactivity, a REPL, and the advantages of buffer manipulation as a metaphor?"