I would love to see a project that rebuilds the Emacs UI but keeps the underlying core to give it a modern facelift, some things in emacs blend together and are a pain for my eyes to figure out whats what. It would be nice if the UI was modernized but the core was left as-is. I'm reminded of some of my favorite editors that are niche being Lisp related ones, where if you held down ctrl it would show you shortcuts in the UI itself and what they lead to. I also always enjoyed Racket's import arrows and other small things that are visually amazingly impressive despite being so simple.

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koiueo 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'd argue the opposite. UI is ok, it can be configured to look timeless (not modern).

But the core with its single thread processing and constant hangs, requiring you to repeatedly hit C-g at least once a day, is first in line for "facelift".

	▲	setopt an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> requiring you to repeatedly hit C-g at least once a day And bind `pkill -SIGUSR2 emacs` or similar to a OS-level keybinding…

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pama 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You mean something like which-key? It existed for a long time as an external package and was added to main emacs recently. https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/fa4203300fde682...

	▲	setopt an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		As far as I know, which-key only helps with key sequences. If you press C-c in Org-mode it will show you keys like C-c C-e, but if you hold Ctrl down it won’t show you C-RET for example.
	▲	tiu 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Alternatively beside which-key, hydras exist which are very nice for certain contexts (dired in the particular case for me) and provide a nice shortcut interface whenever activated. Demo at [0]. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qZliI1BKzI