kickingvegas

kickingvegas, 13 days ago to 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

#emacs

kickingvegas, 18 days ago to emacs

Casual Dired v1.2.0 update now available on MELPA. Adds "Goto File…" command to the menu among other things. Details at https://github.com/kickingvegas/casual-dired/discussions/56

#Emacs

kickingvegas, 29 days ago to emacs

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, 1 month ago to emacs

Ever been too scared to use the #Emacs 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, 1 month ago to emacs

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

kickingvegas, 1 month ago to emacs

On the topic of #Emacs 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, 1 month ago to emacs

Wrote a post about writing #Emacs 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

kickingvegas, 1 month ago to emacs

Casual v1.5.0, a porcelain for #Emacs 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

kickingvegas, 1 month ago to emacs

FYI: for folks using the Mitsuharu Yamamoto fork of #Emacs 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, 2 months ago to emacs

In #Emacs, "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, 2 months ago to emacs

cc-isearch-menu update 1.4.0 is now available on MELPA for #Emacs. 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, 2 months ago to emacs

Announcing Casual, an opinionated porcelain for #Emacs 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, 3 months ago to emacs

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

kickingvegas, 4 months ago to SanFrancisco

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/

#SanFrancisco #sfba

kickingvegas, 5 months ago to orgmode

Preparing for the new year by putting away archiving all the tasks I did in 2023. #orgmode #emacs

kickingvegas, 6 months ago to SanFrancisco

I'm back at Harlan Records, #SanFrancisco 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

#DJ

kickingvegas, 6 months ago to random

LOL https://sfstandard.com/2023/11/17/sam-altman-openai-chatgpt-mira/

kickingvegas, 6 months ago to macos

Reminded that the command line utility pmset displaysleep 0 is a thing on #macOS.

kickingvegas, 7 months ago to emacs

Wrote about what I've done to make the #Emacs Tools menu more useful to me, with much of the emphasis on how rather than what. Every snowflake (or potato) is different. What commands you put in your menus is up to you. http://yummymelon.com/devnull/customizing-the-emacs-tools-menu.html

kickingvegas, 8 months ago to emacs

If you didn't know: #Emacs has a world-clock command to show the current time in different time zones. I write more about it here:
http://yummymelon.com/devnull/icmyi-emacs-world-clock.html

kickingvegas, 8 months ago to random

Can’t seem to make updates (writes) to sfba.social today. 😐

kickingvegas, 8 months ago to emacs

Wrote yet another #Emacs post, this one on using bookmarks (adding, listing, jumping to) in Emacs like you would with bookmarks in your typical web browser.

http://yummymelon.com/devnull/using-bookmarks-in-emacs-like-you-do-in-web-browsers.html

kickingvegas, 9 months ago to orgmode

Wrote a post providing some hard-learned guidance on defining tasks in #OrgMode. There are so many ways to define a task but some work better than others, particularly with agenda views.

http://yummymelon.com/devnull/defining-org-agenda-tasks-or-ive-been-using-org-agenda-wrong.html

#Emacs

kickingvegas, 1 year ago to random

Wrote a post on adjusting #Emacs to appearance changes (light, dark) on macOS. It's doable, but with a caveat. http://yummymelon.com/devnull/automatically-adjusting-emacs-to-macos-switches-in-appearance.html

kickingvegas, 1 year ago to random

I could totally see a future #Emacs #OrgMode having a UX like Mercury. https://www.mercuryos.com