Any #emacs users that store per-project #comint history using #projectEl? Especially if it's for #haskell and #haskellMode. I don't expect there will be Haskell specific things... but who doesn't like a copy-paste solution 🙃 Any thoughts in general on per project histories with desktop-save-mode?
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A while ago I had to use a Windows machine at work, and of course the first thing I did was install #Emacs on it. Most things worked surprisingly well, but I couldn't get #Mu4e to work. I also tried #NotMuch and #Mew, but I also failed to either install them or compile them.
At the end I tried #Gnus, and everything worked out of the box. I didn't even need to install any GNU utility.
Gnus is not the prettiest, and its terminology and configuration is confusing. But it is incredibly versatile.
It has worked very nicely as an Email email client, specially to manage mailing lists. But now I also use it for things like Reddit and Hackernews.
What are your experiences with Emacs mail clients under Windows? Is anyone using something other than Gnus?
#Gemini is cool but I think it is too restrictive and it needs a specific format.
IMHO, #markdown ( #CommonMark ) over http/https would be very efficient.
Markdown is really a common format for content and there many tools able to manage.
It's easy to put md files on an existing http server.
I've not found a really easy to use markdown extension for Firefox or Chromium. I don"t know if there are browsers that render mardown natively ??
I'm writing a large document in #latex in #emacs and I track my changes with #magit. Is there a way to view to view Levensthein edit distance or similar instead of line diffs? MS Visual Studio actually does this quiet wonderfully despite being otherwise less than wonderful.
Each time I want to improve my #emacs / #orgmode setup, I'm hitting such a complexity wall that I always start rethinking that choice… Org mode is the best thing that happened to my notes and todos capture, but emacs is the most complex software I've run in my life… And loosing so much time for small things (and often not succeeding) is making it less and less worth it for me… And that makes me sad :/
Just got super tired of switching across #emacs windows by typing "C-x o" repeatedly. I searched for a better way and found ace-window by abo-abo. Thanks a lot for that!
Posted a while back about wanting to give #emacs a go for a bit, see what the fuss is about (I'm mostly a #neovim guy).
I've been doing that, specifically with #doomemacs (vanilla was awful, tbh, but Doom has a lot of decent plugins including lsp and Vim emulation out of the box, which makes it very comfortable), and I think I get it now. I'm especially a fan of #orgmode and #orgroam.
For now, I think I'll be using both Doom Emacs and Neovim depending on how I feel. Is...is that allowed?
Upside of #emacs: ease of being able to build your own computing environment. Downside of Emacs: ease of being able to build your own computing environment. It's so tempting to stop doing work and make another tweak to your config that will improve your workflow.
I don’t know if Sohrab Behdani’s screencast is the first #emacs related in #farsi or just the first one I’ve come across, but what a lovely surprise … I speak a little bit of Farsi but not enough to be able to understand everything. Regardless, thanks @sachac for showing how universal the Emacs ecosystem is https://yewtu.be/watch?v=h0oWdOrjjHQ
@ctietze Kinda all of it. Thinking off the cuff, imagining Embark+GPT-style behavior tied to a rich UX that emphasizes (but not necessarily enforces) time-based organization (shades of lifestreams from the 90s http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/freeman/lifestreams.html). Literate programming/notebook style behavior is available to process/transform any content put into it. I'm not suggesting that #Emacs could support such a thing any time soon; really more thinking what a future hot-reloadable environment could do; maybe a Smalltalk-style environment for the 21st century?
@ctietze TBH, I'm just thinking out loud what a different #OrgMode experience would look like. My first impressions of MercuryOS was like, "oh wow, #Emacs has got some parts that could do that." Also, I'd observe that so much development effort in Emacs seems to be in accomplishing context-dependent actions. Add to that the UX work by Rougier, it's tantalizing to synthesize these things and think of a far future Emacs that had support for rich UX.
Follow-up question: What kind of zone (AKA screensaver) programs would you like to see in #Emacs? The existing options:
Built-in stuff (most of which scramble the existing buffer text or otherwise mess with it)
Two Matrix™ ones
Rainbow colors
A steam locomotive (clone of the sl command)
A nyancat animation written by yours truly
Most screensaver ideas seem to be about graphics rather than text, but graphics are of course still possible. One thing I've considered is game cut scenes, much like the "attract mode" of arcade machines (or maybe just add a whole game and relax the screen saver rules a bit).
Combobulate is a package that adds advanced structured editing and movement to many programming modes in Emacs. Here's how it works, and how it can enrich your editing experience in Emacs.
I am not a lawyer and maybe this is a very naive or wrong-headed view. So, as far as I understand the legal underpinning of open source and free software, it is our copyright that allows us to assign licenses, which underpin free software.
Now, if that is correct, what does it mean that the US doesn't recognize copyright for partially AI-created content? Does it mean that partially AI-created content can NOT be licensed as open source and free software? Or does it go even further, meaning that proprietary software based on licenses is also not legal if it incorporates AI-generated content?
@ola Not all free software is made in the US. Even in the English-speaking world, the UK does not agree with the US legislation.
In any case, I don’t think most free software would ever be written like that. In a world where people still use #vim and #emacs, why would we ever want an AI system to write our code?
Combobulate: Structured Movement and Editing with Tree-Sitter (www.masteringemacs.org)
Combobulate is a package that adds advanced structured editing and movement to many programming modes in Emacs. Here's how it works, and how it can enrich your editing experience in Emacs.