Re: What is the most useful potential feature which Emacs lacks?

[Arthur Miller]

address@hidden (H. Dieter Wilhelm) writes:

> Some too personal ideas?
>
> What I'm missing from stock Emacs:
>
> - Synchronisation of BBDB and Calendar (or other Emacs' PIMs) with
>   Nextcloud (or similar.  I read that Tramp connects now to Nextcloud
>   :-).
>
> - A tree view in dired (like ztree, for example).
You can already have this with some third party pacakges

Checkout dired-hacks and dired-ranger. I think there were some other
packages offereing a tree view of directories, but I don't remember any
more I don't use dired that way myself.

> - Starting executables from Dired under Windows (for example with S-RET,
>   OK, there's this package dired-launch).
You can do this too, shouldn't be a problem with few shortcuts, or
dired-launch or open-with.
> Where I often have to leave Emacs (mainly under Windows @work):
>
> - Capturing screenshots and drawing stuff over them.  This is just an
>   observation, I'm not asking to convert Emacs to the Gimp!
Have you tried "ScreenShot":https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ScreenShot

I don't take many screenshots myself, so I didn't try it myself, just
remember it was there.