al3x

al3x, 11 months ago to vim

I haven’t been able to find all the right groups of people on the fediverse. And this makes me sad. I follow a group of people in my field of work and a large # of people in the Apple development ecosystem.

What I couldn’t find so far:

• people that talk regularly about #vim #neovim
• people that toot regularly about #comics #ComicBooks
• people that listen to #Jazz and toot about the albums they are listening
• people that listen to classical music and toot about those albums.

Can you help?

al3x, 4 months ago to emacs

Isn’t this behavior in #Emacs a bit strange: to use jump to matching parentheses, bracket, brace:

1. cursor must be on the opening character
2. cursor must be after the ending character

Why after and not on the last character?

al3x, 11 months ago to random

Does anyone know if there’s a way to change the font Safari uses for displaying text files?

al3x, 3 months ago to random

@siracusa sorry for bothering you with this question.

In SwitchGlass, “Show All Windows - Activate an app and bring all its window to the front.” Is this action supposed to also restore minimized or hidden windows? Or does it apply only to non-minimized, non-hidden? (The behavior I’m observing is the latter which is a bit confusing for me when thinking of “all”).

Thank you

al3x, 11 months ago to random

@MonaApp I’m getting an error when trying to load my Bookmarks. The error seem to indicate toward a Mastodon issue: “Error: Maston: Record not found. Reload”

Any ideas what should I do? thank you

al3x, 8 months ago to vim

Today I have used VS Code. Because I couldn’t get a file browser working in a logical way in vim. Almost every action resulted in a behavior that surprised me; negatively.

#Vim

al3x, 1 month ago to emacs

Is it possible to automatically attach a property to a #emacs #Orgmode heading creating using C-S-RET or M-S-RET?

I do like to have a CREATED property on all tasks so I can purge them when they've stayed too long in the list.

al3x, 4 months ago to random

What is the crafty approach for hosting a blog in 2024? I’m looking for recommendations. Thank you

al3x, 9 months ago to random

After many years, after many processes, after many tools, some things that still elude me and I struggle with in task management:

1. what is really a task vs what’s an idea
2. however good at filtering the tasks you get, there will always be more tasks than time and/or energy
3. instead of looking at the remaining tasks, there are no easy ways (or tool support) to help celebrate the completed ones

al3x, 1 month ago to macos

Does anyone know what happened with the Space Gremlin app? https://www.spacegremlinapp.com

I can’t find it in the Mac App Store. And I don’t seem to see it in the list of apps I bought either even if I do have the email.

#macOS

al3x, 8 months ago to random

In the last few days I had to use quite a bit a diff tool on my macOS.

1. bbdiff sort of worked but didn’t feel intuitive
2. FileMerge (through opendiff) felt like the beginning of macOS.
3. Kaleidoscope felt the most intuitive and friendly.

I haven’t tried vimdiff as I don’t know if it works on folders. I should though.

I’m considering upgrading to Kaleidoscope 4, but the list of new features and the transition to subscription are not very convincing.

al3x, 10 months ago to random

The TouchID on my iPad Mini works less than 10% of attempts. Is this normal?

al3x, 5 months ago to macos

Is there any remedy for the Menu Bar icons lost behind the Notch? #macOS

al3x, 11 months ago to neovim

I don’t find #vim and #neovim conversations on Mastodon. If you know of anything please let me know.

al3x, 8 months ago to random

How do people wear glasses and headphones? Honest question.

If I manage to put the temples under the cups, it hurts. If temples go above the cups, the angle is wrong.

al3x, 1 month ago to random

Besides not working, what frustrates me further is there’s absolutely no way to tell what features they support.

It’s beneficial to have a single connector. But having a standard to communicate what features they support and with what qualities it will make them really useful and friendly. https://social.lol/@andycarolan/112237460262692817

al3x, 1 month ago to orgmode

After losing some edits of #orgmode files in between #Beorg and #Emacs, tonight I have added a save-on-focus-lost to Emacs:

(add-hook 'focus-out-hook ‘org-save-all-org-buffers)

The simplicity to accomplish this result is incredible. Similar things can be accomplished in #vim too.

Modern editors have to expose configuration flags for such features. Which are indeed easier to use if present, but less configurable and less composable.

al3x, 9 months ago to random

fyi @pluralistic I have tried to subscribe to the feed using Reeder and it errors saying it cannot find a feed.

al3x, 9 months ago to macos

Here’s what I’ve discovered while playing with Command-Tab on macOS:

1. Cmd-1, Cmd-ArrowUp, Cmd-ArrowDown: shows all the windows of the selected app in Command Tab
2. Cmd-Q: quits the app
3. Cmd-H: hides the app

Surprisingly, Cmd-M doesn’t do anything. (I was expecting to minimize).

Any other tips & tricks?

#macOS

al3x, 8 months ago to macos

Experimenting with different window managers:

1. yabai (tiling) with 2 desktops (I need one on which yabai is not active; this might be
2. stage manager with a single desktop

#macOS

al3x, 5 days ago to random

I use a Google Workspace (something) with my domain and Google Photos.

Google is changing something about the paid storage. That has impact on Google Photos.

Documentation on how to get more space is absolutely impossible to read. I'm really concerned that this means I will lose all the photos stored in Google Photos.

al3x, 4 months ago to emacs

ⓉⓘⓁ [TIL] #Emacs

(forward-sentence) M-e
(backward-sentence) M-a

Easy to remember if you are using C-e/C-a for end/beginning of line

al3x, 12 days ago to vim

Productivity increases with the level of customization you are making in the tools you are using most often.

The downside is that the more used to these customizations you get, the more lost you'll feel when
using a system that is not configured as yours.

Simple example: create a new binding in #Vim or #Emacs. This is not only very common but
also very encouraged. After getting used to that, connect to a remote server.

al3x, 15 days ago to random

I am a bit confused by the advice on training I'm reading about.
On one side, there are studies saying to avoid training to failure. (this applies to non-hypertrophy training).
On the other hand, others say that endurance training requires sets to failure.

al3x, 3 days ago to emacs

Question for #Emacs users & experts:

I have tried to use replace-regexp to replace ) at the end of
a set of lines with B).

For the matcher I entered: )$.
For the replacement I entered B)

And it did not work. Why?

(I tried the second time entering B) as a replacement and it worked though)