iLemming

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by iLemming 1y ago
Well, sure, to a certain degree it is a hobby. Here, let me quickly run (define-it-at-point) command while I'm typing this comment, because of course I can do that in Emacs. First definition says "it's a horse", then the
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by iLemming 1y ago
> I do have just about every tool/feature you mentioned, just not in a single user interface. Well, just like I said - you're not getting it, we're talking past each other. It isn't about a "single interface&quot
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by iLemming 1y ago
It is indisputably not a hobby, at least for me, personally it ain't. I've been coding long enough to see a difference between "oh, what a nice gimmick" and "how the fuck would I even do that, if I didn't know
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by iLemming 1y ago
They exist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3h773bycP8
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by iLemming 1y ago
Yup, Neovim is very awesome, I use it myself pretty much every day whenever I need to ssh to a remote host. There are many reasons though for why it is unlikely to dethrone Emacs as my main driver. Just like Emacs could never fully replace
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by iLemming 1y ago
Sure, that's just another package I forgot existed. Guess what? You can still use all of them together in the same instance of Emacs and they probably wouldn't even complain about it.
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by iLemming 1y ago
Well, in the context of the discussion, you can "teach" Emacs to play Pacman. Imagine sending left/right/up/down commands to a Pac-Man emulator or whatever. The emulator itself may not "understand" these c
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by iLemming 1y ago
Yup, exactly this. The Unix philosophy has limits - text pipes work great for linear data processing, but often break down for interactive stateful workflows. Many modern tasks require rich data structures, not just text streams. Also, cont
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by iLemming 1y ago
I'm glad you asked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud3Gmxg5UZg - Browsing Reddit and HackerNews In Emacs (7 minutes). If you don't want to watch it: https://github.com/thanhvg/emacs-hnreader
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by iLemming 1y ago
First Pac-man was written for Zilog Z80 microprocessor in Assembly. What do you think Assembly looks like? Sequence of emojis?
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by iLemming 1y ago
I may not sound nice at times, but I strive to be kind. Kindness implies honesty. Why is it easier to learn a foreign language around kids? Because kids (with no malice in their hearts) would tell you the truth - when you mispronounce thing
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by iLemming 1y ago
> I don't get using emacs for non text things What do you mean by "non-text things"? You are dealing with the computer, it's all about text and mostly text. Sure, it might be encoded and digitized, but even structured
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by iLemming 1y ago
Emacs is weird. I think it changed something in my brain. Before Emacs, I never thought I would ever try controlling video playback from my editor. "Just why?" I probably would've said. I never thought I'd be trying to g
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by iLemming 1y ago
Typical reaction from someone who has no clue. Emacs isn’t a “hammer”; it's more like “glue” - you don't have to do everything _with_ Emacs, but it can definitely mediate and delegate specific tasks to more specialized tools - it
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by iLemming 1y ago
Does it finally work on Macs without weird rituals? I love the idea of using only Linux, but I'm too stupid to deserve an employer who'd let me live my dreams. I'm just happy I'm not forced to use Windows.
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by iLemming 1y ago
Yeah well, every muggle has to go through seven circles of note-taking hell before discovering Org-mode. Nobody gets magic for free.
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by iLemming 1y ago
I do a similar thing when I walk my dog. I have this primitive audio recorder app on my Android phone - the only requirement I had years ago when I found it was to be able to record directly into mp3 files, but that is no longer relevant. A
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by iLemming 1y ago
Org-mode gets immensely underrated, even though it's easily deserves the title of the best possible medium for note-taking. The degree it allows so much flexibility is astonishing, especially with Org-roam and similar alternatives - I
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by iLemming 1y ago
> You can use it as "just an editor." You can, sure - sometimes we all do, when we need to debug a faulty package, we run it with the -Q option. I've been working for many years with people who use Emacs, have many friends
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by iLemming 1y ago
My message in this particular instance is not aligned with either of these, and you seem to be misreading me. I have no issue with people choosing different tools, switching techniques, finding different ways of thinking about problem solvi
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by iLemming 1y ago
To start, I disagree. If it takes a person to turn away from a tool just because some random human tool said something online, maybe they are not ready, on what level - emotional, spiritual, mental, moral - I'll leave them to decide. I
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by iLemming 1y ago
I have. I just suck at it splendidly and not getting any better https://www.youtube.com/@ilemming btw, folks, if you have time, join our discussion today at 6PM Central Time https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx
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by iLemming 1y ago
> You're right, vim bindings are very qwerty focused. I can't share my personal experience, because I never tried switching either to Dvorak or Colemak - I never conceived my typing speed to be a bottleneck - I type faster than
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by iLemming 1y ago
- > I've never heard of using org-babel for managing dotfiles Oh that technique is just bananas - my entire system is in a single .org file, I'm sorry I can't share it - it contains private stuff and I just never thought a
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by iLemming 1y ago
Oy vey, I guess I'll have to get more prescriptive than enumerative. I do seriously appreciate your wonderment and the invitation for less emotional and more scholarly discourse. > getting an excellent UX for any one of those given
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by iLemming 1y ago
> 8 years user here so still an emacs noobie, but I switched to nvim I don't know man, whenever I see comments like this, I just don't get it - there's just no "switching" for me personally to anything, like ever
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by iLemming 1y ago
I have a similar but opposite experience. Since around 2015 I've mostly been working with people who primarily use Emacs. In 2014 I was the only weird one, then next team about 3-5, then a dozen, then there was a team of a few dozen wh
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by iLemming 1y ago
What? Emacs is in fact a digital anarchism - complete opposite of religion. It's Kropotkin¹ with parentheses - mutual aid through package sharing, no central authority (even RMS can't dictate your config), and every user autonomou
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by iLemming 1y ago
Well similarly opposite "myth" persists that Emacs (unlike Vim) is a non-modal editor. It really is a modal one.
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by iLemming 1y ago
A pro tip - add a clause in your LLM prompt to randomly misspell words, so people can't blame you for an aislopper. :)

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