mickeyp

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   by mickeyp 4y ago

   Thank you :) I'm glad you like the book and site! That makes me very happy.
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   by mickeyp 4y ago

   Agreed. This is really good advice.
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   by mickeyp 4y ago

   Yes, with caveats. Give yourself a goal you want to accomplish in Emacs -- just one -- and then start with that. Do not try to overload your learning by doing everything in Emacs from day one.
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   by mickeyp 4y ago

   I wrote about the importance of tree sitter a while back, for people who don't know why Emacs would adopt it: https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/tree-sitter-complicat...
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   by mickeyp 4y ago

   If you're using Emacs, you can of course get full dictionary lookup from inside Emacs using a wide range of sources running locally on your own machine: https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/wordsmithing-in-emacs
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   by mickeyp 4y ago

   I've written about Emacs for, hm, nearly 13 years [1]. My recommendation is picking one thing you want to start doing in Emacs, and then focus on getting good at that. Maybe that's doing your shell/terminal work in Emacs. Per
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   by mickeyp 4y ago

   EShell in Emacs can preserve point at the prompt that executed the command. You can then hit space to page through the output, or start typing to immediately jump to the end of the buffer (and thus a blank prompt): https://www.ma
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   by mickeyp 4y ago

   What I miss about Pascal is its offset indices. You could start an array at 0, 1, 42, or what have you. Useful in rare circumstances!
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   by mickeyp 4y ago

   Hardly. Britain's converting to metric -- one inch at a time.
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    by mickeyp 4y ago

    > I have co-workers who spent years on tracing request ids through each layer. It got scrapped after a couple of months because no one used it. "Hey bob, it seems the money we sent through the system disappeared. Can we trace it?&qu
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    by mickeyp 4y ago

    It's actually the perfect litmus test, and a good way to check someone's seniority or competence in in about 5 minutes flat: Developers who disclaim responsibility, or show no interest in, how their software is scaled, securely lo
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    by mickeyp 4y ago

    You mean to say you can't build a competitive web browser with ~$500 million/year income? Give me the $500m a year and I'll give it a punt.
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    by mickeyp 4y ago

    A bash script + a little elisp magic that leverages Emacs for fuzzy finding on the command line instead of fzf: https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/fuzzy-finding-emacs-i...
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    by mickeyp 4y ago

    - Decorator pattern, as seen in Python's @decorators; - Factory functions, as seen everywhere, even if people don't bother thinking of them as such; - Memento pattern, a common way of implementing undo-able actions in applications
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    Fuzzy Finding with Emacs instead of fzf(masteringemacs.org)

    2 points by mickeyp 4y ago|0 comments
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    by mickeyp 4y ago

    Thanks :) Enjoy! Shoot me an email when you've read it. I'd love to hear about what you've learned.
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    by mickeyp 4y ago

    Same. They're generally very good, and there's a lot of logic and fluidity to how movement and editing combine.
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    by mickeyp 4y ago

    I wrote about marking and exchanging point and mark without activating TMM: https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/fixing-mark-commands-... Also, the CUA rectangle stuff's actually mainlined and can be used withou
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    by mickeyp 4y ago

    You may like my article on this very subject: https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/evaluating-elisp-emac...
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    by mickeyp 4y ago

    Thanks! I'm very happy to hear that.
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    by mickeyp 4y ago

    Do you mean like `M-x speedbar'? Lots of third-party customizations for it, too.
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    by mickeyp 4y ago

    Emacs has `thread-first' and `thread-last'.
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    by mickeyp 4y ago

    Emacs is 40-odd-plus years old, and so are many of the names of functions in it. As a result, they may not have intuitive or obvious names. Emacs also does not use namespaces. That makes discoverability even harder. In f.el and so on, the f
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    by mickeyp 4y ago

    f.el and friends are useful, and add a lot of value. But elisp's function naming is all over the place and that can make it harder than it needs to be to find what you're looking for. That is also why people turn to libraries like
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    by mickeyp 4y ago

    > NFS is also more tolerant to breaking and resuming the TCP connection; this is fatal to sshfs. Except when... - The kernel driver crashes, resulting in unkillable processes and orphaned, mounted files that, if accessed, result in those
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    by mickeyp 4y ago

    > This conflates the user concept of a buffer with the gap buffer implementation emacs happens to use. I did not conflate these things at all. Gap buffers, etc. are irrelevant; a boring implementation detail. Unfortunately, _most_ editor
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    by mickeyp 4y ago

    The Linux OOMKiller is inflexible and as likely to kill the right thing as the wrong thing when there's memory pressure on the system. There's a reason why third-party userspace [0] ones are used in lieu of the builtin one. You ca
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    by mickeyp 4y ago

    There's a feature in Emacs that does that (unsurprisingly.) It's called `M-x spook'. It inserts random gibberish that NSA and the Echelon project would've supposedly picked up back in the 90s.
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    by mickeyp 4y ago

    You can instruct Emacs (with or without emacsclient) to open in a terminal with: emacsclient -nw That way, you'll connect to your Emacs server but using a terminal Emacs (even if your main instance is GUI Emacs)
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    by mickeyp 4y ago

    I wrote about all the way of doing this here: https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/evaluating-elisp-emac...