Spent way too much time today trying to figure out why consult-imenu will not work for me in #emacs and made zero progress.
Last night I had to tear down my configs for tree sitter because typing / in a js buffer would crash emacs. At least I got that fixed and can work on react code tonight.
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Trying out Gnus is a humbling experience that also provides a perspective on why people might not want to deal with Emacs, preferring alternative editors: it is not immediately obvious that overcoming a steep learning curve would bring benefits compared to an easier solution (like using a different news client). I just want to read my RSS feed, presented in a concise, elegant fashion, I don't want to battle with an UI that might've made sense back in the modem era
I am being a good little programmer and adding docstrings to some Elixir code. I hate looking at it. It so gets in the way of the code; see below.
I want an #emacs keypress that hides all lines between two regexps (One for @…doc…”””; one for the ending “””.) Weirdly, I can’t find anything. I used to be good at Elisp/Emacs programming, but I pretty much stopped doing that around 30 years ago. So looking for something similar I can hack on (or package that obviates the need to).
P.S. It’s my opinion that docstrings were a mistake. I imagine there was some hope that putting them next to the code they describe would help them stay up-to-date, but I am unconvinced they do. It’d be better to have a separate file which you’d bring up / jump to just like your editor lets you jump-to-definition. You don’t want to read the unformatted docstring anyway.
@marick I am mostly pleased with the XML Doc Comments in C# because the compiler (and the IDE, in real time) can tell you when you're missing things (like an undocumented parameter) or screwing things up (like documenting a parameter that doesn't exist). Not perfect, but I wouldn't want it to live somewhere else just because I like the proximity to the signature to see the issues in real time.
One of the most handy combination of functionality in :emacs: #Emacs is the narrowing and ediff buffers. Extremely handy. Kudos to all genius folks who have worked on this throughout the years.
Well, but the same applies to ALL of these functions. Use C-h f on consult-grep, consult-ripgrep and consult-git-grep. And you either see the C-u thing or two texts saying
See consult-grep for details.
And this text exists even for consult-git-grep.
And I'm fully aware that this is not the full solution, this is why I wrote "this is part of the answer".
Today I learned and practiced using Pikchr. Pikchr is a low-level diagram markup language. This is my second attempt at it and I think it clicked this time.
The program is available is a single function library and a CLI that emits SVG.
I used a lot of dot (from graphviz) in Org documents. But sometimes it arranges the objects in ways I don't like, and with dot it's often a fight against it to get the layout I like.
@holgerschurig I don't have much experience with graphviz but I had similar problem with Mermaid. Pikchr does give you more finer control over layout with the trade-off of complexity.
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For the first time in...a few decades at least. Maybe ever. Emacs is regularly and unceremoniously segfaulting on me. Pretty clearly something to do with tree sitter, which is a bit frustrating. (#Emacs 29.3 on MacOS from brew)
Not that anyone likely cares, but I just refactored my #emacs config away from literate org-mode, into a collection of specific elisp files. The top level init.el is now quite clean.
I got tired of having to edit source blocks in the org-mode config and having to preload org-mode just to load my config, all just so it looks prettier (?) when reading it on github.
The elisp files still have sections, rg can search them just fine. I'm happy. https://github.com/garyo/emacs-config
One of the issues with the #REPL (and #emacs which is just a great big text-oriented repl) is that it is additive in nature; it usually takes major effort or a restart to REMOVE things once they've been added (thinking on plugins which modify app state). #Clojure
I'm finding some really interesting blogs out there, and am reminded of the early days of the internet, when it wasn't all monetized and people just wrote about stuff they were interested in for fun. And I had an RSS feeder and got updates when people posted stuff. Plus blogrolls.
So I'm sure there's a way to do this now in #emacs, right? Can someone point me in the right direction? I've heard about elfeed but don't know anything about it.
@birv2 A web-based service has the advantage that all my desktop browsers as well as the app are in sync with the read/unread information.
I'm sure that is also possible for Elfeed when you sync the meta-data as well. However, since I'm reading feeds mostly away from my computer, this was the better solution to me.
So I was a bit off my org-roam habits and decided to get back on track. Since my daily driver is macOS, I am using Railwaycat's emacs-mac formulae on Homebrew. And boom! #emacs doesn't launch even before upgrading due to some wierd gcc issue.
Tried to upgrade... can't compile because of libgccjit issue (necessary for native compilation feature which makes elisp work faster). Turns out there are some breaking changes from GCC upstream and had to browse published issue to apply some workarounds.
In the process I've discovered the --HEAD option for brew which apparently allows to get the most recent-ish branch for a given formulae. So now I have Emacs 29.3 over default 29.1 for this contraption.
PS. As I like the Emacs help system which can browse its own source code to describe a function, it wasn't readily available with brew. Had to copy the code from brew cache to some static location and Emacs just asked to point for the sources there, nice!
@karthink@oantolin@ctietze So on first glance it's pretty cool but I realized there aren't that many embark actions as to need completing-read.
With the vanilla keymap prompter, all the possibilities fit in the popup window on my screen anyway. What is the appeal of completing-read-prompter? I guess it's to "search by typing" instead of by eye?
@meedstrom@karthink@oantolin Looking for an action by part of its name to learn the keys is the main appeal for me.
E.g. the phrase "collect" as an action I may remember, without having to know that it's called `embark-collect'. With alphabetical sorting, it would be at "e" not "c".
And there are a couple of "embark-" prefixed actions that are useful
The rootwork v0.2 blog posted about the author's journey through text editors, from classics such as vi(m) and Emacs to tools I've never heard of. They explain what they use the editors for and why.
