#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.)
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.
Can anyone recommend some good programming blogs (in the realm of lisps, emacs, guix, technical deep dives) that offer RSS feeds? I've already got https://wingolog.org/ from @wingo which is pretty much the exact genre of blog I'm looking for. https://ianthehenry.com/posts/ from @ianthehenry is also a good one (although the RSS feed doesn't seem to work with GFeeds :).
I just think it would be cute to have a selection of RSS feeds to browse through :)
@screwtape My "blog" site is automatically generated off my public Mastodon feed. All users of our instance can simply put a URL in their profile ([username].emacs.ch) and it automatically sets up the site incl. SSL certificate. We call it "Autoblog". Aren't I a genious? 😉
@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.
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.
I wrote a small post on using the rx macro in places where it's not supported, e.g. in Lisp data files.
rx is a macro which takes a special Lisp form and complies it to a regular expressions string.
The post demonstrates how I use #orgmode with noweb expansion to insert rx results in a source file. In this case, I use it to write scoring rules for elfeed-score with more readable regular expressions.
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.