Haven't used Emacs/tramp since 2003 and am freshly impressed by its capabilities: It lets me edit files on a remote server, connected through a proxy server using my locally installed and carefully tweaked Emacs.
Emacs rocks!
emacs/local → proxy → server/file<br></br>
I found the easiest was to add the ssh/proxy conf to ~/.ssh/config and then just do:
What is your undo strategy on #emacs? I kinda use the default via the undo function, but somehow I am not too happy with it. Feels like sometimes it undos too much, and then I cannot revert back to the previous state.
And now for the last one: I came up with an idea two days ago and announced it on /r/emacs. It's a colouring system for items in #dired#Emacs. Almost none of my programmer friends could figure out why I would want to colour files different, which is funny because I can't think of a perfect system which doesn't use colours like this.
But somebody made it for me and it's now available and it works great. 💖 Thank you Karthink!
Today we setup Denote and went through some of its main features. What I like about it:
It is major mode agnostic. You can use it with Markdown, Org, Plaintext or whatever you want
It can be used to organize any kind of files (i.e. your picture folder). Denote happily renames and tags your files any way you want
Denote supports Backlinks. You can even automatically insert the backlinks into a note using Dynamic Blocks. Example:
(#)+BEGIN: denote-backlinks
(#)+END:
By executing this block the backlinks are automatically inserted into the note. You have to put this in your config to make this work:
(require 'denote-org-dblock)
Denote does not implement features that are already in Emacs, i.e. Search. That's my challenge I had with Denote, but as it turned out, with a package like consult you can easily search either by filename with consult-find or through the content of all notes with consult-ripgrep.
While doing this we discovered that global-emojify-mode interfered with minibuffer completions so that Emacs always froze for a few seconds when starting a consult-find. We found it out by using the amazing Emacs profiler (profiler-start). So if you experience this, consider turning on emojify-mode selectively.
In our next session we'll talk about "Organizing with notes" on a non-technical level. Prot will share some of his experiences, because I'm notoriously disorganized.
Note: I do not receive any benefits by posting about this.
@louis I'd really love to join your session about non-tech stuff! I think this would be an awesome session. (Un)fortunately, I'm away from my computer until next week Tuesday.
In any buffer in which Flymake is active, I want the stock command next-error to move point to whichever of these two locations is closest to the current location of point: where it would have moved it normally, and where flymake-goto-next-error would move it. (It is okay if prefix args other than 1 and -1 behave bizarrely.)
Additionally, if the location actually moved to is the location of a Flymake diagnostic, flymake-show-buffer-diagnostics should be invoked and point in that buffer should be placed on the diagnostic associated with the location moved to in the source buffer. (Basically match the behavior of a regular old compilation-mode buffer when next-error is scanning it.)
I'm pretty sure this could be done with some advice applied to next-error but I'm not smart enough today to code it up myself. Has anyone already implemented this?
i am stuck with a problem: i want to use (run-server my-handler) and change the definition for my-handler during development (REPL-driven workflow), but no matter what i do (i.e.: passing (lambda (request body) (my-handler request body)) it won't use my changed definition when i.e. change "Hello world!" to "Hello world1!" :(
i then need to restart the guile repl (basically restarting the server) to see my changes, please help!
I do miss some things from Gnus, but the more I use #notmuch in #emacs the more I like it. I didn't want to go to my terminal or vterm every time I want to get my mail, so I added a section to the hello screen with a button to call notmuch for me. Easy!
@dekkzz76@sqrtminusone yeah I realize that, and before using notmuch I did have mbsync on a timer, and my initial plan was to use mcron, but now I call mbsync in the pre-new hook of notmuch and I've kinda grown used to it that way. Now I prefer doing it manually because I don't want notmuch to start deleting things tagged as deleted (again something I do in pre-new) while I'm still going through my email.
🔴 Today on #SystemCrafters Live, we'll try out the Elpaca package manager for Emacs! This project offers some nice features including asynchronous installs and an improved package management UI.
Let's experiment with it to see if it deserves a home in your configuration!
Join us on YouTube or Twitch (in about 30 minutes!)
I do have a top level heading for each project I’m working on; and track the corresponding tasks within the sub levels. This allows me to also make better assumptions on how time intense certain tasks are/enables me to give better estimates.
Guy from the future appears in your coffee shop. Turns out it's @lisperati writing a game in #emacs on his Yoga Book i9 using a 7 year old 40% keyboard using angry fruit salad mode. You're just 5 years behind the curve man.
Hey #emacs nerds, a weirdly specific question that's impossible to search for because punctuation: Has anyone already written code that merges diagnostics from flymake with diagnostics from compilation-mode, presents a unified list of both, and makes C-x ` walk through that list?
(I am aware that this is actually one of flycheck's headline features, but flycheck and eglot don't get along AFAICT, and lsp-mode isn't an option for me because it isn't on speaking terms with rust-analyzer, for reasons too infuriating to go into.)
learning #emacs vs learning #vim is a bit like learning magic vs learning a language.
magic: you have to learn spells to get predictable results, every spell is specialized, need different result -- learn a different spell. looks cool and goes boom!
language: you learn basic tokens and rules and can build basic phrases. as you get more proficient and try to combine the same tokens differently, you get more complex phrases for more powerful results.
Hooks in Emacs are especially confusing when looking at documentation that doesn't refer to use-package. People reference adding hooks but the question is where the hell do I put this in my config? Does it go under the lsp config or the mode config? Oh and btw don't forget to remove the "-hook" prefix or you'll get weird silent errors when adding hooks to the ":hook" section. #emacs#lsp
Ah this isn't so much a cry for help post but more of a growing pains post of moving to a new editor. The System Crafters posts have certainly been helpful on my journey :)
