As it happens, the Emacs Stack Exchange site launched in public beta a couple months ago.<p><a href="http://emacs.stackexchange.com/" rel="nofollow">http://emacs.stackexchange.com/</a><p>(After first seeing the title, I assumed that's what this post was about!)
This is Yet Another Example of the amazing utility of being able to easily and stably extend one's environment. emacs is just a text editor, but this project is changing it into a Stack Exchange client. That's useful!
Emacs makes complex things possible and simple things hard: <a href="http://www.tjradcliffe.com/?p=74" rel="nofollow">http://www.tjradcliffe.com/?p=74</a><p>That post is the fifth most popular thing on my blog, all from search-hits looking for how to count words in Emacs.
if you're only using StackOverflow, I created a small mode called sos-mode: <a href="https://github.com/omouse/emacs-sos" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/omouse/emacs-sos</a><p>The difference is that sos-mode is made for getting answers quickly and being able to copy/paste any code snippets. The output buffer of answers uses org-mode so it's easy to tag the list.<p>A full-blown stackexchange mode may be good if you're answering questions or looking for a lot of answers but I don't see that happening a lot. Most users are anonymous (sos-mode doesn't require login) and just want to get some answer.
This is a killer idea! Looking forward to seeing where it goes... will be as helpful, if not more, than ERC has been for me while searching for answers.
I never fully "got" emacs even though it was the popular editor during university times and I occasionally use it for quick server admin stuff.<p>Today I feel it has missed its boat with good looking and user friendly stuff available like Sublime Text, Atom, Eclipse and even cloud IDEs.<p>I cant help but to laugh quietly to addons like this.
Questions asking us to recommend or find a tool, library or favorite off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. Instead, describe the problem and what has been done so far to solve it.<p>(just kidding. I don't like SE but I'm sure this is a great tool for people who do like SE.)