eatmygodetia

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by eatmygodetia 5y ago
that's basically point - you can open an ascii file now because utf-8 is ascii oriented, but a utf-8 first editor will struggle with an old french text file for example. plain text has inbuilt biases which have changed over time, it&#
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by eatmygodetia 5y ago
I feel like a lot of use plain text proponents forget that outside of ASCII and now UTF-8, lots of alleged plain text documents with diacritics or non-latin characters are at least slightly difficult to open because of their somewhat esoter
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by eatmygodetia 5y ago
is your wiki still public? the link at the end of the article didn't work for me.
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by eatmygodetia 5y ago
I don't see why you wouldn't consider graphical Emacs to be the canonical implementation. It's part of the primary codebase, several features enabled by default rely on it, and it's what is started when you run emacs wi
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by eatmygodetia 5y ago
Yes. They removed a lot of the fun definitions in the nineties, but by popular demamd they were brought back!
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by eatmygodetia 5y ago
It smells incredibly clean. The air is very pure, apparently, and it's meant to be good for your healthm I noticed this - my cold cleared up while I was there (and started again soon after). There's a slight cave smell, but not
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An Atonement of Nano(noa-s.org)
4 points by eatmygodetia 5y ago|1 comments
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by eatmygodetia 6y ago
In Emacs's defence, it didn't reimplement everything so mich as implement it first. When there's very little prior work to go on, often parts of the design won't be great, and then it becomes hard to move away from them
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by eatmygodetia 6y ago
I'd say that it's just as common to hear "google Our Brand" as "www.brand.com" at the end of television adverts now. That's entirely anecdotal, but Google (or other search engines, but basically Google) h
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by eatmygodetia 6y ago
I'm suggesting Ada because in my mind it satisfies a similar niche to Rust, but offers a different perspective to Rust. Also I like it more. Ada is part of the Pascal family, but goes further as it were in all the Pascal aspects, maki
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by eatmygodetia 6y ago
Maybe not. As I say, I don't use it, but perhaps I'm not so immune to the hype of it as I thought.
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by eatmygodetia 6y ago
It's a general-purpose programming language, so it can be used for most projects. Most problems can be solved with most languages, sure, but rust is fast and "safe", so people flock to it. It has some nice features. Persona
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by eatmygodetia 6y ago
Emacs. It's such a mess, but nothing else comes close.
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by eatmygodetia 6y ago
~/tmp - desktop and downloads, mounted as tmpfs. ~/usr/text - pdfs and text files with name format author-title, no hierarchy ~/usr/projects - each project, not sorted by language ~/etc - $XDG_CONFIG_HOME ~&#x2
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by eatmygodetia 6y ago
> we can have a "markdown web" with less complex clients You might want to check out the Gemini protocol[1]. [1] https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
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A Roundabout Path to Emacs(distinctly.pink)
2 points by eatmygodetia 6y ago|0 comments