That's no text editor - it's a space station!

That rainbow mode also looks useful.

http://julien.danjou.info/rainbow-mode.html

I immediate tried to find to find a script for Vim that does this, I found this: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2150

That script is in need of some serious optimization, it reduces load times for anything with CSS in it (read: any HTML page) to a 5-second plus wait.

Try it on a large HTML file.

You may be right but I haven't noticed any delays. Large files load pretty much instantly for me.

That's nice.

I use

  emacs -Q -f list-colors-display

to find out the color codes

I discovered this gem in HN, but allow me anyway refer to it, as it's most appropriate: http://xkcd.com/378/

I was hoping it would look like Dwarf Fortress. :(

Now all it needs is a text editor and it's done.

Each time I see a post about Emacs, I get jealous because I prefer Vi's text editing.

If only there existed a good modal editor with a good scripting language behind it...

I keep hoping that Yi (http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yi) goes somewhere, but it doesn't seem too active.

Have you considered viper-mode?

Aye. I've used both Vim and Emacs (Emacs less so, but it was my main editor for a few months, so I feel comfortable if not proficient with it), and once I realized neither was what I wanted, I switched to Viper mode.

But, somehow, I never really adjusted to it and now switch between Vim and when necessary Xcode.

In the context of org-mode, that's actually quite useful. Did anyone ever hack some kind of canvas for emacs? Would probably work either by hackishly including changed images in the buffer or by embedding another X window.

That's really cool!

BTW, I installed it and it runs with Aquamacs or the latest GNU emacs distribution, but not for the command line emacs that ships with OS X. Fun stuff.