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kickingvegas, to emacs
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Okay here's another Transient I've made a while back, in this case for Avy. A bit esoteric, but this has enabled me to get a lot more out of Avy than just using avy-goto-word-1 or avy-goto-char-timer. Wondering out loud if I should publish this on MELPA.

Also yes, I've read Karthik's post on using Avy wrong. I readily admit I'm not sophisticated enough to put filter-select-act into practice.

#Emacs

kickingvegas,
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@mykhaylo Perhaps. OTOH, one could argue that libraries are just code where somebody else makes a decision. Transients posted on MELPA are just decisions already made for users who want them. So what's wrong with that? Not everybody wants to write Elisp.

kickingvegas, to emacs
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Ever been too scared to use the file manager Dired? I have and still remember what it's like, especially when I was new to it. But it doesn't have to be that way. Here's my take on making Dired a bit easier to use, for beginners and experienced alike.

Announcing Casual Dired, now on MELPA. Read more about it at the link below.

http://yummymelon.com/devnull/announcing-casual-dired---an-opinionated-porcelain-for-the-emacs-file-manager.html

kickingvegas, to emacs
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Wrote a post to show how to do mathing in with Casual. It only shows a fraction of what you can do with it.
http://yummymelon.com/devnull/mathing-in-emacs-with-casual.html

cstross, to random
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If I had more energy I'd be tempted to write a snarky, satirical, 21st century Jetson's style short story set in a future where all the dot-com 1.0-3.0 hype turned out to be true and faithful predictions of our lives in 2025. Just so I could explore the unanticipated drawbacks ("oops, the Amazon drone delivering your neighbour's new dishwasher just fell through your roof; meanwhile trades.com only shows you roofers who live in Boston, England, not Boston, MA").
https://aus.social/@ajsadauskas/112317411058906212

kickingvegas,
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@cstross also imagine a variant TL where MS truly embraced Interix back when Linux was still in the crib.

kickingvegas,
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@cstross damn i need to sleep, but a TL where US Robotics actually lives long enough to build robots.

kickingvegas, to emacs
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On the topic of Dired, I recently made a Transient for it . Dunno if this merits publishing on MELPA, but it works quite well for me, perhaps for others as well?

kickingvegas,
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To followup - have now cleaned up and packaged my Transient porcelain for Dired for submission to MELPA. That said, any folks wanting to do some QA on this, your feedback would be welcome. https://github.com/kickingvegas/casual-dired

kickingvegas, to emacs
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Wrote a post about writing Lisp docstrings, but a lot of it can apply to other programming languages with docstrings as well. http://yummymelon.com/devnull/writing-better-elisp-docstrings.html

ctietze, to random
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I have this old (2017) type that I need a new name for.

It was called EmptyAround. It is either 'before', 'after', both or none.

It expresses what kind of text is before or after the current insertion point in a text view. This contextual info is used to affect how auto-pairing characters behaves: i.e. typing a quotation mark at the end of a line or adjacent to whitespace characters, you get a closing mark after your insertion point for free, but not if you type the mark before a word.

kickingvegas,
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@ctietze “TextAdjacentToPoint” or some variant using “adjacent”?

kickingvegas, to emacs
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Casual v1.5.0, a porcelain for Calc, is now available on MELPA. This is a big release, with support for computer algebra, reading data files to support plotting and curve fitting, infinite mode support, showing the current value of the thousands and decimal separators, loading the settings file, and numerous UI improvements.

https://melpa.org/#/casual

jwz, to random
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DNA Lounge Update, Wherein this is just a sleepy seaside town now
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2024/04/16.html

kickingvegas,
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@jwz I'd observe that the cost of going out today, especially on the regular, especially with these past two years, has put it out of reach of most young ones today. As to why those costs are the way they are I think is a much larger discussion on economics, urban planning, and transit.

kickingvegas, to emacs
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FYI: for folks using the Mitsuharu Yamamoto fork of tuned for macOS, the 29.3 update is now available on MacPorts as a development port. https://ports.macports.org/port/emacs-mac-app-devel/

kickingvegas, to emacs
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In , "kill" is such a hyperbolic way of describing an editing action. Given the amount of murder in the world, I'd prefer a different word. Perhaps "clip"?

kickingvegas,
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FWIW, I don't think my observation on "kill" is a shallow critique. I am unmoved by @glitzersachen 's arguments. Communities change. I've been using Emacs since the early 90's and I find myself frustrated in translating arcane Emacs-specific language to colleagues who are lay to it (even to myself!).

I take comfort in thinking that Emacs as a project will outlive us all. That said, I'd further add that much of the existing user base invested in the old terminology are going to die out in higher frequency over the next couple of decades. Future Emacs users (and developers) should not be beholden to their thinking, particularly when it is not in alignment with common conventions.

kickingvegas, to emacs
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cc-isearch-menu update 1.4.0 is now available on MELPA for . Toggling a search mode (regexp, symbol, word) will now automatically enter you into an editing mode with the menu still raised. https://melpa.org/#/cc-isearch-menu

kickingvegas, to emacs
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Announcing Casual, an opinionated porcelain for Calc. Discover the HP-28S that's been hiding in your editor for decades. http://yummymelon.com/devnull/announcing-casual-an-opinionated-porcelain-for-emacs-calc.html

kickingvegas, to emacs
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Hi folks, I just got my first package published on MELPA: announcing cc-isearch-menu. More info about it here. http://yummymelon.com/devnull/cc-isearch-menu-now-on-melpa.html

skinnylatte, to food
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I really like Chicha San Chen because they're one of the only boba brands that takes the 'tea' part of boba super seriously. You can see them brewing the tea, separately, from good loose tea leaves. In NorCal, they're only in Cupertino ;/ but they are also in San Gabriel Valley in SoCal. They're from Taiwan, of course.

https://chichasanchennorcal.com/

kickingvegas,
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@skinnylatte happened to be there today and got the brown sugar ginger infusion. Would recommend. Thanks for mentioning it!

jamesthomson, to random
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As an Apple shareholder, I wish Apple wouldn’t push for services revenue. How much better of a company would they be, if it was mostly about selling cool devices that everybody wanted to use? Would they make less money? Yes. Would they still be insanely profitable? Also yes!

kickingvegas,
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@jamesthomson Armchair psychologizing, but to me it seems like Apple's embrace of services comes from an institutional memory/trauma of being on a deathbed watch in the 90's coupled with a current workforce conditioned by VC-funded business models from the early 21st century. Always in the back of the exec team's mind is "what happens when we can't grow the hardware business?"

danilo, to random
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Obviously the first months of Covid were miserable, sometimes lethal, and for many utterly terrifying in their economic precarity.

But there are some fleeting aspects I am nostalgic for.

Specifically, the idea that human life was more important than the machinery of capital. That work should stop, and the people should be cared for.

The recognition of certain work as essential, and of housing as a right.

The sense of possibility in renegotiating the social bargain.

kickingvegas,
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@danilo This Arundhati Roy essay from 2020 (almost four years ago!) covering this thread still lives rent free in my head. https://www.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca

kickingvegas, to SanFrancisco
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Hearing a lot of helicopters and sirens in my neighborhood. Apparently a tree fell on 19th Avenue near or in Golden Gate Park. https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/large-tree-falls-on-4-cars-in-san-franciscos-golden-gate-park-19th-avenue-blocked/

kickingvegas, to orgmode
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Preparing for the new year by putting away archiving all the tasks I did in 2023.

dekkzz76, to orgmode
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Today's rare Yak shaving....

capture templates

kickingvegas,
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@dekkzz76 something I haven't tried yet but is on my TODO list is doct which lets you define your capture template declaratively.

https://github.com/progfolio/doct

kickingvegas, to SanFrancisco
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I'm back at Harlan Records, next week for Flavor #9 where I'll be making vinyl selections for your listening pleasure. Thursday 5 to 9pm, December 14, 2023. Address is 18 Harlan Place, near Union Square, off Grant and Bush. Come through for vibes, holiday libations and good times.

http://yummymelon.com/devnull/flavor-9.html

kickingvegas,
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@brennansv Too bad there's a schedule conflict with CocoaHeads but will be there in spirit!

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