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SVG-Line: Better Status Bars for Emacs – Charlie Holland's Blog

Original Article

Hacker News Discussion

📝 Discussion Summary (Click to expand)

Theme1 – Appreciation for the concept and the effort behind it

"I love this... A huge amount of effort." — noelwelsh

Theme 2 – Interest in modular UI patterns and the VOMPECCC suite

"A fantastic UI pattern and its wide applicability, building in a modular way, how Emacs provides a fantastic substrate for packages to fit together." — strickinato

Theme 3 – Preference for stable configurations and reluctance to over‑customize

"These days I’m a Doom Emacs user and don’t want to monkey around with my setup too much." — noelwelsh

🚀 Project Ideas

[Emacs Modular UI Component Library]

Summary

  • A reusable library of UI components (completion, selection, action) inspired by VOMPECCC for any Emacs package.
  • Solves fragmentation of UI implementations across packages.

Details

Key Value
Target Audience Emacs package developers, power users seeking consistent UI
Core Feature Plug‑and‑play UI widgets (Vertico‑style completion, Orderless sorting, Marginalia preview, Prescient actions, Embark keybindings, Consult navigation, Corfu hints, Cape bindings)
Tech Stack Emacs Lisp, built on top of existing packages (Vertico, Orderless, etc.)
Difficulty Medium
Monetization Hobby

Notes

  • HN commenters praised the VOMPECCC series and UI pattern potential.
  • Enables developers to adopt the same cohesive look without rewriting boilerplate.

[Emacs UI Component Marketplace]

Summary

  • A curated marketplace where packages are built from standardized UI components.
  • Turns UI consistency into a selling point for developers.

Details

Key Value
Target Audience Emacs extension authors, community maintainers, end‑users
Core Feature Component‑based packaging system with versioned UI modules, easy integration via simple API
Tech Stack Emacs Lisp + JSON manifest, hosted on a static site with GitHub integration
Difficulty High
Monetization Revenue-ready: transaction fee per premium component

Notes

  • Commenters highlighted modularity; a marketplace could monetize premium components.
  • Provides a discussion hub for UI best practices.

[Emacs Theme & Layout Designer]

Summary- A graphical/configurator tool that auto‑generates UI layouts using VOMPECCC patterns.

  • Lets users customize completion, selection, and keybinding flows without manual editing.

Details

Key Value
Target Audience Emacs users who want visual UI tweaking but avoid manual config
Core Feature Drag‑and‑drop layout builder with live preview, export to init.el
Tech Stack React front‑end (Electron) + Emacs Lisp server, JSON config
Difficulty Medium
Monetization Revenue-ready: one‑time license $15

Notes

  • Users expressed love for the concept but reluctance to monkey‑patch their config.
  • Could spark discussion on tooling for Emacs customization.

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