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This is a complementary account to laotang@mastodon.social, much more focused on hacking Emacs.

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laotang, to emacs
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Introducing Cleandesk.el, a small collection of functions to rapidly rename and process files in Dired.

Pictures, PDFs and many other kinds of files frequently end up on my Desktop. In the past, I used Hazel and/or Devonthink (both macOS only) to automatically rename and refile. Cleandesk offers an alternative (manual) approach for these tasks from within . It draws on and .

To be sure, vanilla Dired probably can do most of this. But perhaps neither as convenient nor as swift. 😉

https://github.com/rtrppl/cleandesk

laotang, to emacs
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For the past few years (basically within the first few months of using Emacs in 2020) I’ve been using . My understanding of how completing-read and the minibuffer in should work are thereby strongly influenced by this experience.

This weekend I finally had some time to play with (and marginalia, consult, orderless… inspired by Prot's video). Probably I’m holding it wrong but it was not a smooth experience. Is it correct that vertico ignores the sorting of the collection used? Is there a way to change this? Why is the minibuffer here broken? Any advice would be welcome.

The images attached show the results for (completing-read "" orgrr-selection-list) in helm and vertico.

(completing-read "" orgrr-selection-list) in vertico

laotang,
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@sachac Thanks! This would explain why sorting is correct in Helm. It also explains why (setq vertico-sort-function nil) produces the correct order in Vertico.

laotang, to emacs
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The latest version of orgrr (https://github.com/rtrppl/orgrr) adds support for zettel IDs and "Folgezettel" (sequence of notes). For a long time I was not really convinced that orgrr would need something like this, even after being familiar with the great "Folgezettel"-debate (https://zettelkasten.de/folgezettel/).

But, I have to admit, this is a great way to work on a sequence of notes or on draft for a publication. Two weeks into this, it changed the way I interact with my notes.

Btw getting Luhmann's sorting right was way more complex than I thought. There are now six new user-facing functions, all documented in the readme.

AAMfP, to emacs
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I have a problem with my configuration: I need to for some .
This https://marcoxbresciani.codeberg.page/emacs/emacs.html is my current Emacs config file.
The strange thing that happens is that when I yank into an Emacs buffer some text in Japanese (say, from Internet or Notepad), instead of proper characters I see lots of ??????
Font supports Japanese, I also have Japanese IME.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
I just started using Emacs so I'm basically blinding copy config pieces here and there.

laotang,
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@AAMfP Not sure if this helps but is your source perhaps in Shift JIS and not UTF-8? See webpage>encoding, see also https://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/encodings.html and/or are you pasting to an org buffer or not?

laotang,
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@AAMfP Ok. It was just a wild guess. 😉There is something like language encoding to render CJK symbols readable. Usually this UTF8, but there is also Shift-JIS for Japanese (or GB2312 for simplified Chinese; see attached image). Copy&pasting from one encoding to another may cause issues.

I just checked my config and all I needed to set was:

(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)

But I have no experience with (Emacs on) Windows.

laotang,
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@AAMfP Hmm. I still think that the root of your problem is that the copied text is not Unicode/utf-8. I might be wrong here (no Windows to check) but Notepad++ doesn’t seem to use UTF8 out of the box and your browser might neither.

laotang,
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@AAMfP That's a bummer. Sorry, no ideas left.

laotang,
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@AAMfP Are you running emacs in WSL2? Or via Cygwin or some other way?

laotang,
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@AAMfP So now you use "(set-selection-coding-system 'utf-16-le)"? I have to write this down if I ever have to work with Windows again. Thanks for the follow-up!

laotang, to emacs
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What is the best way to use multiple accounts with without restarting ? Right now I’m using this https://gist.github.com/rtrppl/2afd098470d9c74086d412a59ff852c1 to select one of my accounts after Emacs has started but I would prefer to be able to switch accounts without restarting.

laotang,
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@mykhaylo I get this error. And there is a line about needing to restart Emacs in the manual. I played with mastodon-return-credential-account and other functions but did not get it to work.

laotang,
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@mykhaylo Thanks! The problem here might be related to the fact that I'm trying to hack mastodon.el to accept multiple accounts, so I'm not only running my own code :). Right now I don’t pass any tokens, as mastodon.el has the correct tokens for both accounts stored somewhere. I am just trying to find a way to clear the existing token and load the correct one (to avoid having to restart emacs).

laotang,
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@rahguzar @mykhaylo Thanks for the suggestions! Still am figuring out how works. The tokens (of multiple accounts) are stored in a plist file (mastodon.plstore). In this file it is also noted which account is active. The active account can be changed via mastodon-client--make-current-user-active. But somehow the old token is still active and is used somewhere in mastodon.el. Sorry for all the boring details.

laotang,
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@mykhaylo @rahguzar The first option is what I have been doing 😉 will try edebug-defun later.

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