How was your weekend? I love a rainy weekend in the Pacific Northwest corner of America, as it relieves my guilt of doing what I want to do ... staying inside. I read a little, wrote a little, hacked a little ... even played a classic #videogame from the 90s (Curse of Monkey Island on #ScummVM).
I also did a little math. Yeah, been thinking of taking the "Yes, and.." dice mechanics used for luck rolls in #rpg games (not sure who came up with it first), and fusing it with Mythic GM Emulator's Fate Chart, popular with the #solorpg crowd. Since I'm always playing with my notes written in #emacs on the screen, I hacked it in #lisp. Shared the details in case anyone wanted to do something similar in their favorite programming language.
Scratching my head at an Emacs issue: Elfeed-org doesn’t seem to load my feeds. I’m not sure why, everything looks OK. I have my feeds.org and I have the path defined in rmh-elfeed-org-files and it does show the value it’s supposed to have.
Almost thought I had a good way to move #org documents into #confluance from converting them into #html. They used to have a built in HTML renderer but I suppose they couldn't fix it on the cloud and disabled it. Too bad all the html rendering apps from the marketplace are priced WAY too high for what they offer. Guess I'll have to stick with exporting to #markdown for now.
I love this quote. Can't seem to find the original author to give attribution where due:
#vim is immortal in the nokia brick-phone sense. It's got very few dependencies, it'll survive a drop from a ten foot pole and it's cooperative with like thirty year old technology. It's fast and ergonomic and once armageddon comes you'll shell into the flaming wreckage of a datacenter and edit configs with it. Pure embodiment of the strength and certainty of steel.
#emacs, by contrast, is immortal in the shambling fleshbeast sense. Its thousand thralls write beautiful evocations to pull domains you never could have wanted or imagined from its flesh. It grows cancerously to envelop any domain, any need you may want from it. You can tear out its heart and swap it, still-beating, for a new one. It embodies the ultimate desire to survive. It can send email.
Does anyone use #emacs as a personal wiki, or do you prefer something like #tiddlywiki?
Chatting with a friend who thinks that it would be a lot of work to configure #orgmode as a wiki, but I think it pretty much has all the features, right?
TiddlyWiki claims to be a single doc wiki, in which case, the function from #orgmode to insert links mimics that behavior well. Sure, a couple of small #lisp functions can improve it, so I wrote another essay explaining a bit how I go about writing them: https://howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/tiddly-wiki-in-org.html
@deong@abmurrow I have done this too. A keyboard with "home row modifiers" is fantastic, and is the only way I can deal with the awful non-#emacs app interfaces I have to use.
I'm really enjoying Mastodon. While each person here exposes a Venn diagram of overlapping interests, you get to know each other, initially through our overlapping interests, but then, we're exposed to other perspectives in a more thoughtful way.
Everyone is so nice, and for once, I'm enjoying a social media platform. Big hugs to all.
Trouble with hangs on encrypted saves with #emacs 29.1, even after downgrading #gnugp to version 2.2. A large problem with #macos#homebrew is you can't get fine-grain control of older version installations without a great deal of consternation.
Got a questions about my office background in this weekend's presentation at #emacsconf... especially my license plate. t.ly/xKiVE
When a dear friend wanted a vanity plate in Utah, the state had just started to allowed 7 characters, so he thought HEATHEN would be locally humorous. The next day, our boss came in and said, "What's up with the license plate?"
My friend smiled, "Yeah, pretty good, huh?"
Our boss replied, "Not really. I mean, what does Heat Hen mean?"
When my friend passed away, his widow gave me that license plate, and that is why it belongs on my bookshelf of memories.
#DoomEmacs geeks. I need help. How do i configure it such that :edit always assumes the current working directory is the repo root not the directory of the file in the current buffer? I really miss that behavior from #Vim.
@masukomi I usually call project- oriented variations of common functions, like find- file, etc. in #emacs. These are on my leader, under SPC p
This works for me, because I sometimes want a file next to another, instead of starting from the top of the repo. But if you know a little Lisp, You could write a function, that sets the default-directory variable, and then advise some functions to call yours before it runs.
Let me know if that is enough information to get you started, otherwise when I get to my computer, I can give you a prototype to work with.
I've updated my ebb/flow functions in #emacs shell that I presented at last year's #EmacsConf, and wrote an essay describing it. Wondering if others would find out useful as a package...
Try this. Open a Terminal in Emacs, and type a command that outputs some data other than a filename. Say uuidgen.
Now type: echo and then launch your avy-goto function of choice, and select the first letter or two of your UUID (in this example). Now type y and then the latter(s) in front of the UUID.
Amazing. No need to use the mouse to select the text. No need to move the cursor around. THAT is the most compelling reason for running your terminals inside your Emacs.
Should companies pushing for a return to office, but also advertising their carbon-neutral footprint for their offices/data centers, take into consideration the carbon generated by their employees coming into their offices?
Dealing with a big file in #emacs, but have a wide physical screen? Split into multiple windows, and call follow-mode. The file will now flow as if you had multiple columns. Scrolling works just as you'd expect. Packages like avy-goto become really powerful.
