iLemming

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by iLemming 2y ago
It still doesn't make it a DB-based solution. Calling it as such is confusing, especially to the long-time Org-mode users. They value the nature of all the data being in plain-text. No valuable data ever goes into that DB, it's pu
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by iLemming 2y ago
> Zettelkasten is an interesting thing, but more as a curiosity Zettelkasten is just an idea, and a great one. I don't know what you think it is, but all these apps - Obsidian, Roamresearch, Logseq, Org-roam - are based on that idea
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by iLemming 2y ago
Org-roam is not "DB-based". All the data remains in the plain text, org-mode format. Org-roam simply adds an indexing layer which sits in sqlite.
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I am absolutely sorry that I have failed to capture the fantastic essence and incredibly powerful qualities of Org-mode so carefully crafted in over twenty years of its existence. My poor writing style simply miserably failed to express it
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Org-roam just adds a thin layer of indexing nodes, nothing more. There's not much to it, so there's no churn.
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by iLemming 2y ago
I didn't say "another version of org-roam", I said "looks like pretty much the same idea". My words suggest nothing of what you're accusing me, but rather suggest of what I thought it was, after reading the des
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by iLemming 2y ago
Zettelkasten. It's an incredibly simple idea. Obsidian, Logseq, Roamresearch, Org-Roam - they all are based on that simple idea. I used to spend a lot of time, thinking how should I organize my notes? Tried many different methods - cat
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Org-mode is not just 'something', it's a powerful Emacs extension that transforms plain text documents into dynamic, interactive, and organized systems for notes, to-do lists, and project management, while seamlessly integrat
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by iLemming 2y ago
Looks like pretty much the same idea around Org-Roam, which is already well established set of packages. There already exists a vibrant community with things that extend Org-Roam itself. Not sure how this would be any better than that, yet
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by iLemming 2y ago
Three words: pomo fucking doro
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You don't really need an elaborate setup; it's sufficient to know how to install packages and explore some possibilities. It usually takes someone experienced to convince them that Emacs is truly the best choice for dealing with p
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by iLemming 2y ago
Right. I had the privilege and pleasure of watching and guiding people with and without a previous background in programming to learn a Lisp dialect. Some beginners, for various reasons, would pick Clojure or Emacs, or in one case, even bot
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by iLemming 2y ago
What? Really? OMG, Fennel is so nice. I'd use it for anything that needs Lua these days - neovim, hammerspoon, awesomewm, mpv, wezterm, etc. It's very mature and it even has an lsp-server implementation and a dedicated conference.
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by iLemming 2y ago
Yanking Emacs back to life? What kind of digital paganism is that? The Church or Emacs dictates using the mighty Daemon to summon it back to life.
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by iLemming 2y ago
Yup, Lisp is extremely malleable and egalitarian and unrestricted - that's why there's almost universally at least one dialect of Lisp exists for any non-lispy language and almost every known programming paradigm. The only rule it
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by iLemming 2y ago
Okay, please share your wisdom, tell me how would they express "1,000,000,000 - 100" using Latin numerals? Oh, I found the answer on my own, with the help of LLM. For a billion you can use M̅M̅, which technically would mean a thou
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by iLemming 2y ago
> I don’t see why you would ever have to switch to a certain IDE Alarmingly, basic proficiency in VSCode becoming a must in many software developing teams and I don't like that. People really seem to have zero concerns about Microso
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by iLemming 2y ago
For non-emacs nerds who didn't get the joke - command for exiting Emacs is 'M-x kill-emacs', also, you don't "delete-word" in Emacs, command for it is 'kill-word', there's also 'kill-paragra
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by iLemming 2y ago
You can simply 'M-x list-packages' and search for things. - Thesaurus - there are a few different packages, powerthesaurus, le-thesaurus, etc. I use mw-thesaurus, at this point mainly out of habit, it's the first Emacs packag
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by iLemming 2y ago
> LSP on emacs working well enough but the performance just isn't there. Have you tried https://github.com/blahgeek/emacs-lsp-booster ? Also, build Emacs --with-native-comp flag
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by iLemming 2y ago
Yup. The prospect of having to someday switch to VSCode unnerves me. It's not because it's technologically inferior to Emacs or because of my habits, muscle memory, dogmas, or childhood traumas. It's because of Microsoft. I j
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why not Fennel?
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Oh come on. Emacs is not that buggy. For a piece of software that's been developed for over forty years it's quite surprisingly stable. Most of the "bugs" I see are due to some tighter integration between different packa
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by iLemming 2y ago
Kids that dismiss Lisp without even grasping the amazing power behind it, remind me the story of Yanomami languages of Amazonian tribes. Apparently, there's word for 'one' and for 'two', but there's no word for
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> Emacs is actually rather slow. It depends on so many different things. Aside from platform specifics (sure, it can be painfully slow on Windows), Emacs might feel slow for various reasons, but it doesn't have to be. Built-in Profi
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> Writers seem to love it. Of course, how can you not love it? All the tools you need for writing are at your fingertips. You can have a thesaurus, spellchecking, translation and search, dictionaries, etymology lookup, word counter, Fles
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by iLemming 2y ago
"Data point" is simply this - Emacs and Vim have seen way too many popular editors and IDEs over the years and VSCode is just another thing in a long list of "contenders" - Brief, Wordstar, Borland Sprint/Turbo Pasc
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You don't "exit" Vim, tis not a stage - you quit it. And then go to Emacs because tis a killer, a vocation from which there's no quitting - it is for life.
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> It just works. That "it just works" thing gets me all the time. I just don't get it. Some things surely do work nicely out of the box in a proprietary specialized tool, like for example JS/TS-related things indeed a
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by iLemming 2y ago
> I would really like it if Magit was a standalone program And what about Org, Org-Roam, Anki-editor, pdf-tools and org-noter, Eshell, gptel and chatgpt-shell, Transient, Vertico, Consult and Embark, Dired, Notmuch and mu4e, elfeed and e

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