iLemming

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by iLemming 5d ago
> has way more bugs than modern editors That's just factually untrue. Emacs core is not obviously buggier than, let's say, VSCode, which has tens of thousands of open issues and is written in Typescript. What differs is visibil
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by iLemming 5d ago
You're spitting nonsense. Emacs cannot exists without running inside a Lisp REPL loop. Emacs is not a text editor, technically it's a Lisp REPL with the built-in editor. Dynamism and malleability on the live image is the point. Th
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by iLemming 5d ago
Wake me up when all the 40-years of Emacs package development all migrated to Lem. Do you even use Org-mode? Anyone who tried it beyond just basic outline features knows very well - Org-mode needs Emacs to run. There's no such thing as
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by iLemming 5d ago
CL is really not the answer. In fact, most Lisps probably can't beat Elisp for the simple reason that majority of Lisp dialects are very data-oriented, while Elisp is specifically text-oriented and that's not the property of the l
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by iLemming 5d ago
Building software takes time. It remains a difficult craft, with or without the help of LLMs. You can't simply build a piece of "important software" in just a few months, and the good models capable of reasoning on complexity
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by iLemming 5d ago
Emacs doesn't have "plugins", they are called "packages" for a reason. Every Emacs package is not just a plug-n-play "product", it's a recipe, you can use them as libraries, cherry-picking behaviors y
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by iLemming 5d ago
Yeah, right. Why the fuck those "Atlanteans" chose to fight over the land that is literally the farthest point from any major sea? You know that Uzbekistan is a double-land-locked country?
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by iLemming 10d ago
That piece is now extracted into https://github.com/agzam/clipimg.el
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by iLemming 12d ago
I have a piece of Elisp that checks if the last thing in clipboard is an image, then sends it to tesseract¹. It's not as accurate as I wish, but it's very fast and it works for cases when someone's screen sharing. I've b
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by iLemming 13d ago
I'm still so conflicted about Fable. Sometimes you throw at it seemingly impossible problem to solve and it might come back with some brilliant suggestions. Sometimes you give it a straightforward task with explicit instructions and it
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by iLemming 13d ago
Yes, we need transparency. And it needs to be brutal. We need a new conventional, agreed and respected model for all OSS contributions. Any creator of anything shared publicly must adhere to agreed standards - they should explain the vision
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by iLemming 13d ago
I honestly don't get software engineers who don't know basic vim motions and don't even care to learn them. Seriously? They plan never to use `less` and `more`, they won't be reading manpages, they are okay with not know
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by iLemming 13d ago
vim is not a single concrete editor - it's rather an abstract idea, and ideas do port (if done properly). But some substrates have poor foundation for porting, some have much more flexible base. Every vim plugin for major editors - VSC
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by iLemming 13d ago
Emacs is not an editor, it's a text-based orchestrator - a live Lisp image that happens to ship an editor, where every function is introspectable, redefinable at runtime, and written in the same language. Any external tool becomes some
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by iLemming 14d ago
Buddy, I did. I did. And I can rant for a quite a while for why the opinions there have jack squat of sound reasoning. On [almost] every single point there. What I love about Vim and Emacs is that they taught me humility. I am grateful to m
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by iLemming 14d ago
> I'm really happy that we live in a world in which people who don't know how to use the tools It's not a happy world. It's dystopian. I really don't like how unskilled people get confidence for creating novelty
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by iLemming 14d ago
> We need something like Emacs, but a well designed Emacs. Wow. This is brilliant. Nobody ever. Not once. Not even theoretically. Nobody in 50 years of Emacs' existence ever tried that. Not a single programmer ever said this or atte
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by iLemming 14d ago
You can exit Emacs by clicking a button, by making a mouse gesture, by telling it via voice command, by key-press, by modal key-chord sequence, by writing into a file, by selecting a menu item, by directly evaling (kill-emacs) command, by c
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by iLemming 14d ago
> Can this be done out-of-the-box now? Yes, with built-in packages there are at least two different ways - speedbar, or Dired in a side window. And what even "out-of-the-box" means? In Emacs-land packages are not like extension
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by iLemming 15d ago
We get it, guys - you don't like reading news about AI, but can you just stop spamming submissions with this crap - "HN with no AI, built with AI", wtf is that? I feel like building: "HN for non-haters of AI", where
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by iLemming 15d ago
Borland was huuuge. The name was so prominent, my college-mate one day (without a hint of irony) said: "All this time I thought the first name of Pascal - the mathematician, was Borland and that's how the company got the name. I j
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by iLemming 15d ago
For anyone got angered by my tone, allow me to explain. The OC clearly has no idea what this post is about, it has nothing to do with "freezing" or whatever, and remarks like that are simply disingenuous, ignorant and presuming. S
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by iLemming 16d ago
whisper.cpp is awesome but even it just can't process a three-hour vid in seconds. What do you suggest should I'd be doing? Clench my butt-cheeks and stare intently into its work log, hoping it would finish faster? Ah, I know, you
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by iLemming 16d ago
> I notice it on macOS So, on Mac there are two main problems - displaying and fork/exec. Rendering on Mac is slower because NS port display backend just sucks. Emacs's redisplay emits many small drawing operations per frame -
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by iLemming 16d ago
Oh, you're so funny. What you've been "editing" buddy, your gramma's cookie recipes? Just the other day I transcribed a three-hour long video of a meetup, picking the model, setting parameters, running the process;
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by iLemming 18d ago
You just don't know it yet. Emacs vims better. Source: I'm a die-hard vimmer.
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by iLemming 18d ago
What? Noooo. Emacs is not a text editor at all. It's a thing-to-hate when you don't know it, and a thing to use for everything but text-editing when you love it. That's why...
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September 2026 Emacs meetup recap [video](youtube.com)
18 points by iLemming 18d ago|1 comments
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by iLemming 18d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1w4jiiv/emacs_atx_me... Good discussions. Various topics. We went over three hours, so I had to make a shorter recap video. - We've talked some good amount of
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by iLemming 19d ago
I'm not a musician, I suppose I should have picked a better analogy. Now I'm listening to Mahler and trying to find enlightenment. Thankfully, my desk audio setup is better than my car's.

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