#emacs people: Is there an easy way to customise org-capture (and perhaps org-agenda) to just use the same window and leave my window management alone?
I’m knee-deep into stack overflow posts and wasting way too much time here. This is one of my most longstanding annoyances of #orgmode
(This is actually one of the reasons #orgrr does not use org-capture for new notes.)
@rogersm@kommen Python is also self documenting ... but I still won't use it for everything. For me, self-documenting would never be a criteria for programming language selection. It's however "nice to have".
BTW: nowadays compiled languages, which look non-self-documentating at first, might be exactly that with the help of language server protocol and a smart LSP server. So it's now the tooling, not the language.
If Google Podcasts asks to export all subscriptions to YouTube Music and this one finds nothing to import, the only reliable solution is to move everything to elfeed in #Emacs.
Announcing Casual Avy, an opinionated Transient menu for Avy, a package for jumping to visible text using a character-based decision tree. More details about it at the link below. If you've never gotten around to trying out Avy, this menu can help you understand why folks who use it swear by it. http://yummymelon.com/devnull/announcing-casual-avy.html
I'm reading Naomi Fisher's book "Changing Our Minds: How Children Can Take Control of Their Own Learning." The discussions of adult self-directed learning and also Peter Gray's theory about (play + curiosity) * sociability = learning reminds me of how much I like the #Emacs community.
@ctietze it's actually mostly geared towards parents considering homeschooling or unschooling, but I think it's useful even for supporting kids who are in more traditional school. Our kid is in virtual school, so we have a lot of flexibility in supporting her interests. For example, I found it useful to learn that mastery learning (focusing and persisting, learning more effectively, managing emotions better, becoming less distractible) generally develops around age 9, so I don't need to worry too much about our 8-year-old learning in short bursts and exploring different interests.
In #emacs, sometimes you want to surround a region with some text or delimiters -- say, <div> and </div> in HTML, or == for Mediawiki headers, or similar.
There was a blog post a while back that had a nice function for that -- I improved it so that you can repeatedly call the function and it will correctly nest the text it inserts. That is, you can first surround an HTML region with a span, then immediately call surround-region again without re-marking the region, tell it to surround the region with a div, and it will correctly nest the HTML tags.
yes any gui program is an issue using pen/touch input but ive been using pen input since the days of the Thinkpad X61
GNOME is a good OS for trying touch out, but i "found" a 10in android tablet which i want to set up just emacs on explicitly for org-mode & basic denote setup
Do any of you know of a package that lets me use slack / mastodon style emoji insertion?
Between Mastodon & Rocket (awesome macOS app) I keep starting to type : foo : instead of going to M-x insert-char
Obviously we can't just use : foo : because programming languages use colons all the time, but surely there's something similar we can do like !: foo :! or whatever.
🤔 I can't remember a language that combines colons and bangs.
A very nice feature in Emacs 30 that got recently merged is etags-regen-mode by Dmitry Gutov:
+++<br></br>** New global minor mode 'etags-regen-mode'.<br></br>This minor mode generates the tags table automatically based on the<br></br>current project configuration, and later updates it as you edit the<br></br>files and save the changes.<br></br>
I found it useful when working with C code, will have to try other languages as well. By default it uses the etags executable, which depending on your system might be Universal or Exubrant Ctags.