Summary

  • Emacs is a powerful, feature-rich text editor that some people love and others hate, it seems to do everything, including cutting videos.
  • A scheme devised by mbork uses Emacs to show a video, accept cut-in and out marks and uses ffmpeg to output the video clip.
  • This is simplified by work already done to allow emacs to create subtitles with the help of mpv.
  • The keybinding remembers where mpv is when marking the beginning, and another keybinding grabs the end mark, calculates the arguments and calls ffmpeg to do the work.
  • This is more of a fancy scripting, orchestration and UI system than Emacs actually doing much work, but it shows the versatility and power of the application.
  • Emacs can also apparently run Doom, with help, whereas Doom Emacs is something completely different.

By Al Williams

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