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As a developer, I find it a bit embarassing that I started using Emacs in 2000, that at some point I even read my email with it, and that I never took the time

As a developer, I find it a bit embarassing that I started using Emacs in 2000, that at some point I even read my email with it, and that I never took the time to really learn emacs-lisp. Still, some day I will. This book might help me. :)

bjarneh 5y ago
> Still, some day I will I said I'd lean Spanish some_day® as well, according to duolingo that was 9 years ago :-)
- rvdginste 5y ago
  Uh... well, it would be even more embarassing to admit how long I've been telling myself that I'd start learning emacs-lisp in earnest... so I won't. :)
bloopernova 5y ago
I'm just a devops person, not a coder by any stretch of the imagination, but I found that maintaining my .init.el in git helped me to learn enough elisp to be useful/dangerous. I really dig that it's a full on language used for the configuration files. It just makes so much sense to do it that way. (I also like VSCode's json prefs) Also I love sharing snippets of my .init.el: 40 │ ;; Taken from https://karl-voit.at/2017/02/11/my-system-is-foobar/ 41 │ ;; Check if system is Darwin/macOS 42 │ (defun my-system-type-is-darwin () 43 │ "Return non-nil if system is darwin-based (Mac OS X)." 44 │ (string-equal system-type "darwin") 45 │ ) ... 65 │ 66 │ (when (my-system-type-is-darwin) 67 │ ;; EXAMPLE: (global-set-key (kbd "C-z") 'shell) 68 │ ;; https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Init-Rebinding.html#Init-Rebinding 69 │ (global-set-key (kbd "s-/") 'comment-or-uncomment-region-or-line) 70 │ (global-set-key (kbd "s-<backspace>") '(lambda () (interactive) (kill-line 0))) 71 │ )
- jolux 5y ago
  system-type is actually a symbol, so you can do (eq system-type 'darwin) for the same effect. here's my macOS section: https://github.com/bklebe/.emacs.d/blob/b0ca255032d1240942ff885b98be51c9b5a37106/README.org#macos-configuration https://github.com/bklebe/.emacs.d/blob/b0ca255032d1240942ff...
  - bloopernova 5y ago
    Nice! I'll definitely take a close look at that.
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- TacticalCoder 5y ago
  > I found that maintaining my .init.el in git helped me to learn enough elisp to be useful/dangerous. The snippets you gave of your init.el are really basic but I do agree with you: working on init.el (and using Git to revert SNAFUs) helped me learn enough elisp to be dangerous too. The elisp I write is certainly not idiomatic but it gets the job done. I have some functions I wrote more than a decade ago and they still "Just Work [TM]"!

bjarneh 5y ago

> Still, some day I will I said I'd lean Spanish some_day® as well, according to duolingo that was 9 years ago :-)

rvdginste 5y ago
Uh... well, it would be even more embarassing to admit how long I've been telling myself that I'd start learning emacs-lisp in earnest... so I won't. :)

bloopernova 5y ago

I'm just a devops person, not a coder by any stretch of the imagination, but I found that maintaining my .init.el in git helped me to learn enough elisp to be useful/dangerous. I really dig that it's a full on language used for the configuration files. It just makes so much sense to do it that way. (I also like VSCode's json prefs) Also I love sharing snippets of my .init.el: 40 │ ;; Taken from https://karl-voit.at/2017/02/11/my-system-is-foobar/ 41 │ ;; Check if system is Darwin/macOS 42 │ (defun my-system-type-is-darwin () 43 │ "Return non-nil if system is darwin-based (Mac OS X)." 44 │ (string-equal system-type "darwin") 45 │ ) ... 65 │ 66 │ (when (my-system-type-is-darwin) 67 │ ;; EXAMPLE: (global-set-key (kbd "C-z") 'shell) 68 │ ;; https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Init-Rebinding.html#Init-Rebinding 69 │ (global-set-key (kbd "s-/") 'comment-or-uncomment-region-or-line) 70 │ (global-set-key (kbd "s-<backspace>") '(lambda () (interactive) (kill-line 0))) 71 │ )

jolux 5y ago
system-type is actually a symbol, so you can do (eq system-type 'darwin) for the same effect. here's my macOS section: https://github.com/bklebe/.emacs.d/blob/b0ca255032d1240942ff885b98be51c9b5a37106/README.org#macos-configuration https://github.com/bklebe/.emacs.d/blob/b0ca255032d1240942ff...
- bloopernova 5y ago
  Nice! I'll definitely take a close look at that.
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TacticalCoder 5y ago
> I found that maintaining my .init.el in git helped me to learn enough elisp to be useful/dangerous. The snippets you gave of your init.el are really basic but I do agree with you: working on init.el (and using Git to revert SNAFUs) helped me learn enough elisp to be dangerous too. The elisp I write is certainly not idiomatic but it gets the job done. I have some functions I wrote more than a decade ago and they still "Just Work [TM]"!