iLemming

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by iLemming 1y ago
"The Idea" here I think is in the revelation of the ultimate preeminence of text in a programmer's life. Plain text deserves our utmost attention, yet many programmers overlook its significance and rarely give it deliberate t
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by iLemming 1y ago
Yup, totally. Emacs users been impressing juniors for fifty, and vimmers for over thirty years. Pretty much ALL software was ultra-productively done just this decade. Nobody really wrote anything before VSCode came to see the light ten year
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by iLemming 1y ago
Haha. What's really cool about eww, that you can just open any page, and then change the major-mode of it - I read org-mode, markdown readme's like that, or explore CI logs, etc.
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by iLemming 1y ago
I don't want to sound like "advising", because long-term recommendations often carry the personal weight with them- whatever I tell you worked (or didn't) for me had an effect on me - it's never guaranteed to have a
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by iLemming 1y ago
Do you really have to be a jerk? Or you were dropped in your infancy and you just can't fucking help it? Go seek some professional help maybe, it really hurts to see someone being so miserable.
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by iLemming 1y ago
> we're here to edit text though, I thought? It seems you're missing the point - that example is 'reductio ad absurdum' - a showcase of the logical extreme of capabilities, not an illustration of concrete practicality
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by iLemming 1y ago
r/emacs discussion - https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1ogaf4t/piping_inout...
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Show HN: Piping in and Out of Emacs(github.com)
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by iLemming 1y ago
> NOTHING is going to happen while the Republicans control congress, period For anyone interested, for the past 30 years, Republicans dominated for 22 years in total, while Democrats only 8.
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by iLemming 1y ago
> I have eshell bound to a keybind, but I've never use it For years, I had a similar feeling about it. And then I learned that in eshell you can pipe in and out of buffers. So you can for example grep the content of one buffer and p
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by iLemming 1y ago
I'm using Emacs to read these comments. Because... why not?
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by iLemming 1y ago
Emacs in its half-a-century existence afaik never had "batteries included" narrative. Whatever comes bundled in Emacs, either practical or not so much (e.g. tetris) - are recipes and guides for extending it.
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by iLemming 1y ago
Yes, it may sound like that to someone unacquainted with it. But have you ever thought about the reasons why Emacs remains relevant and triumphant even half a century later? Here's really fascinating stuff: I can start a fresh new inst
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by iLemming 1y ago
> How does Magit handle complex merges Like most of the things in Emacs - with variability that can suit [almost] every scenario - you can simply accept upstream or downstream changes with a keypress; use plain (line-by-line) diffing or
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by iLemming 1y ago
> is there any alternative path Yes there is - `alias vim='emacs -nw'` :) Seriously though, do grant Lisp serious consideration - Emacs only truly comprehensible through the lens of Lisp. The experience may open your eyes to an
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by iLemming 1y ago
Not trying to snob you, just for didactic means: Magit easily does that and more: - Not only you can see the log for an individual file - you can trace the evolution of a given function. - You can diff not only branches, commits an
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by iLemming 1y ago
> anything else it can do? 'It' can do virtually anything you want to get done. I'm not sure what you expect here, the laundry list of possibilities?
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by iLemming 1y ago
That's some weirdest complain, sounds like standing in a fully stocked kitchen and muttering there's nothing to eat. You're using the pinnacle of malleable apps, why don't you just rebind the keys you don't like?
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by iLemming 1y ago
Magit would make no sense outside of Emacs, because it's not just an extension - it's also a bunch of libs anyone can use - the way how Emacs works allows you to re-use and modify any behavior of any function with extreme granular
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by iLemming 1y ago
The opposite is also true. I have never heard anyone climbing the ladder specifically because they are "so fucking good" with [insert whatever IDE/editor] Dude is saying nonsense. "Emacs users are unemployable" soun
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by iLemming 1y ago
Yeah, before Emacs, it never occurred to me to even think of trying to control my browser from my editor. I never thought that I can type just about any text, not in the input box of some app, but in my editor - with Emacs, if I need to typ
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by iLemming 1y ago
I genuinely never understood running Emacs in terminal, instead running terminal in GUI Emacs. That, until a day I joined a team where most development happens on remote EC2s, where people create joined tmux sessions. Besides, it turns out,
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by iLemming 1y ago
In the related news, master branch of Emacs now supports child frames in the terminal https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/m2h694lp7s.fsf@gmail.com , hopefully available in the next stable release. That means we can have floa
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by iLemming 1y ago
Wait, you hooked up Claude Code to gptel, or you're talking about its models Opus, etc.?
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by iLemming 1y ago
The only 2¢ I can add here is that LLMs are surprisingly good for solving tasks that involve Elisp. There's large corpus of Emacs Lisp in the wild - the amount of it on GitHub alone is shocking. For comparison - whenever I try using a
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by iLemming 1y ago
I'm not trying to snub you nor am I arguing with you - my opinions are just that - I never said they are fundamentally true for everyone. Similarly, your experiences are yours - it would be wrong to generalize based solely on that data
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by iLemming 1y ago
> I wouldn't say my expertise and abilities has grown exponentially Things always look easier only after you solve a problem, don't they? That is a known as hindsight bias (also called the "knew-it-all-along" effe
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by iLemming 1y ago
You just unironically proved my point. Who's got a decade to spare, when they can wield the power in just a couple of months?
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I think the problem that most beginners try to explore the editor features, instead of focusing on main fundamental truth about Emacs - it's not just an editor, it's a Lisp system with a built-in editor. I think focusing on unders
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by iLemming 1y ago
I think your arguments are fair, well, for the most part of your sentiment anyway. I do use CIDER almost daily and have not experienced critical memory leaks and I don't feel like I'm fighting Emacs warts all the time, although of

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