Sometimes I get overwhelmed by having a free day and end up not accomplishing much. This morning it was processing my feelings toward my family's political views. I think it was valuable to come to some conclusions about why their views bothered me so much, but it took time.
I'm sitting on some patches and email drafts waiting for the fsf to update my copyright assignment record.
I'm going to work on objed for a while, then my blog. For objed I want to translate the test runner from a Makefile to an elisp eldev command. For the blog I want to do the opposite: translate the elisp build script into a Makefile.
Both are attempts at simplifying the development process though, just choosing the right tool for each job.
@holgerschurig@grinn I do not mean it flippantly: I have reached the age where I genuinely recognize the healthy "productivity" of a day where my concrete accomplishments are "did a load of laundry" and "pet the cats."
Gosh, after a reboot yesterday my RET key was bound to mark-sexp and I had no idea where that came from. In my init.el there was zero binding for that and it happened even in Fundamental mode.
Ultimately, after I commented out sly it is now back to normal. Sly was updated a week ago and for some reason the update landed on my machine.
Finally got #emacs set up and running zippily(?) because I'm running it natively in Linux. Org mode is fast, and I'm loving it. Only one problem now to solve: I set up Linux Mint on my Windows machine as #dualboot, but now I can't boot into Windows.
@birv2 there's a chance that grub defaults to Mint and doesn't have a timeout value to select a different boot option.
I don't know the steps to fix it, but this should be easy to look up. 🙂
Alternatively: are you dual booting from the same disk? If not, you should be able to fix this directly from BIOS by changing the boot device. 🤔
@pjaspers@to1ne Then just bind Alt-J to the function you want it to have.
If it would be Alt-Enter that does what you want, then first do Ctrl-h k Alt-Enter to see what it does (e.g. vertico-keyboard-explode) snd than bund that function to Alt-J in the proper vertico map.
I can’t believe it🤪: TIL #Emacs has support for tabs.
(In #Emacs and #Vim, with their support for windows, I use tabs as workspaces: setting up windows in a particular layout fitting the needs of that project)
@al3x it has support for multiple levels of tabs, which is even weirder, but makes sense if you treat the topmost bar for window configurations like you do!
Casual v1.5.0, a porcelain for #Emacs Calc, is now available on MELPA. This is a big release, with support for computer algebra, reading data files to support plotting and curve fitting, infinite mode support, showing the current value of the thousands and decimal separators, loading the settings file, and numerous UI improvements.
So, I'm currently in a middle of moving all of my calendars from Google Calendar to #emacs#orgmode in an on going effort to reduce dependency on Google.
This little project has been progressing better than expected! And now I've found a final piece of a puzzle that makes the whole thing come together: Orgzly Revived [1] (mainly for its Git syncing feature) for Android.
With this combination, I've successfully moved off Google Calendar for good and without any loss in functionality.
@not_null_p git syncing, you say? Never noticed! Am using WebDAV and occasionally run into sync conflicts. Does the git sync auto merge if possible without intervention?
I would like to give a shout out to all the excellent people on emacs.ch. You are not only passionate about Emacs and Lisp, but also friendly, fun and always willing to help out.
This post on #emacs#org-roam resonates very well with me, to the point that I actually double checked that I didn't write it myself. I've been fortunate I suppose to not have problems with org-roam's database for several years now, and I think it does make some sense to go ahead and build around a proper database layer rather than beat around the bush. It's something of a rejection of YAGNI, but I think people often wear YAGNI blinders. https://edstrom.dev/wzvdr/2023-02-26
I use Emacs with evil, and I hit ":w2<ret>" way more often than I'd like, leaving little files called "2" all over the place. So I wrote some advice to fix it
Thanks to all the #emacs people who responded! Today is wsl day. Yesterday was Linux mint in a vm. Tomorrow is native Windows. Just doing some light coding and banging out text. If emacs is reasonably zippy I’ll go with Windows since it’s just less friction. Nothing against Linux but one thing at a time. Plus printing just works on Windows
This morning's #emacs adventures: figuring out whether to run it natively in Win10 or in VM of Linux. Finally got it to save config settings in Windows, so playing with that for the day. Got a #fieldnotes notebook and started writing down key bindings. Getting comfier. Also researched #wsl2 as an option instead of VM. Feel free to chime in, #emacs people.#noobalert
Screaming a question into the void regarding #emacs#org#orgmode, hoping that someone will see this:
I'd like to have the same left-margin for all my text. Headline bullets (and list bullets etc.) should be to the left of this margin. In CSS this would be list-style-position: outside;
Would anyone know how to modify the indentations of the headings to some negative value? Pointers much appreciated!
I really enjoy reading this blog. Today I think I have found a solution to a long unsolved question: It's the "org-tree-to-indirect-buffer" function (bound to C-c C-x b).
This morning I'm investigating the Emacs Writing Studio series (https://lucidmanager.org/tags/emacs/), which is a wonderful introduction to #emacs. Especially as it relates to writing, which is probably about 80% of what I think I would use emacs for. Happy for other suggestions, thanks!
