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nesarkvechnep 56 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: My I3-Emacs Integration

I did the same integration with an Erlang daemon. All relevant key presses are sent to it and based on the current focused application the daemon does different things. I built an Erlang library i3_IPC to listen for events and send commands to Sway.

Pay08 56 days ago | [–]

I'm curious; why Erlang?

nesarkvechnep 55 days ago | | [–]

Why not Erlang?

It's is great in everything which requires talking to and/or listening on a socket. It's amazing for writing and running daemons.

krupan 56 days ago | [–]

Care to share?

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