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by dmortin 6y ago
Org mode is really good for note taking, so emacs has uses even if one does not use it for programming.
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by dmortin 6y ago
> You launch the tutorial/tour/whatever it's called and immediately it yells at you to use C-v to jump to the next page. And then M-v to go backwards! If you're a normal user, your response is probably something along
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by dmortin 6y ago
> To get anything approaching the productivity of an editor like Sublime or VS Code, you have to spend hours installing packages, learning their unique keybindings, and sorting out conflicts. Isn't it the same with VIM or other free
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by dmortin 6y ago
Popularity means more users and more contributors. I guess most of the core emacs devs are greybeards who started programming in the 80s or earlier, so what happens when they grow too old? Who will replace them?
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by dmortin 6y ago
> if we compare emacs to vscode, vscode simply requires less configuration to get going True, but then why do more people uses Vim than Emacs? Is it becase it's installed on servers and stuff? I wonder what percent of desktop progra
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by dmortin 6y ago
I have doubts about this. Maybe they did some simple variable settings, but I doubt they wrote proper lisp programs.
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by dmortin 6y ago
I meant that the C code in emacs stays as is. And if it calls to the elisp part then those calls should be replaced of course with calls to the JVM via JNI.
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by dmortin 6y ago
> I'd rather read up on the JVM which is frankly more powerful and interesting than the Elisp interpretor. Would it be possible to implement Elisp on top of the JVM? I mean in a way, so Emacs can use it instead of its own VM in a b
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by dmortin 6y ago
So to defeat this you just write a higher current salary on your application, right?
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by dmortin 6y ago
> How well does a car react when there is a construction flagger telling it to turn around, or when there is no signs and the traffic lights go down due to a power failure? It tells the driver to take over when it can't interpret t
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Bringing Gnu Emacs to native code(twitch.tv)
5 points by dmortin 6y ago|0 comments
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by dmortin 7y ago
Yes, it's useful. It's even better if you can search your commands with out of order matching (multiple words in any order). I do this from Emacs (you can use Helm or Ivy, for example) and it's extremely convenient and effect
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by dmortin 7y ago
> I'm referencing the "1 hour-task", which from my understanding usually does not demand to customize the editor itself. I your task involves the same kind of editing, for example, then in emacs it's trivial to write
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by dmortin 7y ago
Only my personal experience. I never encountered a situation in my professional life where I couldn't access the net. How is it verifiable? Is there some statistics of this?
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by dmortin 7y ago
The defaults. They aren't very good, IMO. Many users don't want to spend time with customizing, they want a system which works instantly with language plugins, and so on. VSCode does a very good job at that. Emacs is for people wh
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by dmortin 7y ago
The strength of emacs is that once you can program it it's extremely easy to write extensions for it, even for one off tasks, because it's so quick and easy. Compared to this writing extensions for vscode, for example, is much mor
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by dmortin 7y ago
Only a tiny minority of users can't access package repos. They can download the packages at home and mail themselves in a zip file. It's trivial to create a zip file containing the necessary files, plus a config elisp file which
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The most successful malleable system in history(malleable.systems)
2 points by dmortin 7y ago|1 comments
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by dmortin 7y ago
The point is searching multiple terms any order in a note. With org-rifle I don't have to think about the number of context lines or anything and I just type the terms and it finds the notes which have all of those.
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by dmortin 7y ago
Thanks. I was curious why org-rifle is not sufficient for search, but you just describe searching by tags which org-rifle can also do, or searching within a tag.
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by dmortin 7y ago
Could you show an example of those "little extra symantics" which helps you with this?
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by dmortin 7y ago
You can assign ids to headers and link to that.
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by dmortin 7y ago
The graph seems more like a gimmick, but the automatic backlinks are nice. Org mode is a really good text-file based solution for notes, especially with tools like org-rifle: https://github.com/alphapapa/org-rifle The
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by dmortin 7y ago
Actually, Emacs is a low coding editing environment, because the strength of emacs is that once you can program it it's extremely easy to write extensions for it, even for one off tasks, because it's so quick and easy. Compared to
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by dmortin 7y ago
https://github.com/codecoll/org-backlink
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by dmortin 7y ago
I don't know how he does it, but you can use tags for projects.
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Chinese Netizens Use Ethereum to Avoid China’s Covid-19 Censorship(forbes.com)
2 points by dmortin 7y ago|0 comments
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by dmortin 7y ago
> notes I take on the book I am reading today should still be available to me in 20 years. No app can offer that kind of guarantee Emacs + Org Mode You can be sure Emacs will still be around in 20 years and Org Mode stores notes in text
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by dmortin 7y ago
It's like using an external tool for something if it's better than the internal implementation of the editor for the same thing.
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by dmortin 7y ago
The strength of emacs is that once you can program it it's extremely easy to write extensions for it, even for one off tasks, because it's so quick and easy. Compared to this in vscode writing extensions is much more convoluted. Y

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