Empecé a explorar #emacs por #orgmode. Es una herramienta muy potente, pero de momento yo solo necesito algunas cosas básicas.

He acabado cayendo en la cuenta de que, sobre todo, necesitaba un "método" para organizarme mejor, y un software que me ayudase. El método va a ser #gtd, y el software #nvim con el plugin de orgmode. Tengo mi nvim demasiado engranado, y no me apetece configurar evil mode.

Es probable que acabe pasándome a emacs, pero, por el momento, no me lo puedo permitir.

I've been using Emacs for almost 8 years. Six years with `evil`, two years with vanilla keybindings. I grew used to the `C-` keybindings (thanks to the thumb cluster on my custom keyboard), but when on the laptop I miss modal editing... Replacing Caps with Ctrl helps, but it doesn't feel as ergonomic as modal...

I've been looking at `god-mode`, `devil-mode` and `modalka`, but I can't seem to decide which way to go.

Thoughts and input on modal editing welcome!

#TIL in #Emacs I had trouble clearing the screen in certain repl or shells, and was using some hacky stuff to mimic C-l in a normal terminal. Turned out there is a function called comint-clear-buffer which is bound to C-c M-o in shell-mode, ESS, and etc.

It just does not respect multi-line `$PS1`.

A while ago, I wrote an article about my attempts to make development in Python more interactive, more "test" driven and more fun.

My North Star is the developer experience in Clojure, where you have everything at your fingertips using REPL Driven Development.

One thing that I haven't been able to figure out until now, is how to modify and evaluate Python code from an actual running program - without any restarts.

https://davidvujic.blogspot.com/2025/03/are-we-there-yet.html

the amount of times pkill -SIGUSR2 emacs has recovered my #emacs from a frozen/unresponsive state due to blocking network requests in flaky network conditions

Launching Magit from IntelliJ IDEA

https://dolzhenko.me/blog/2025/03/launching-magit-from-intellij-idea/

When will Rust Emacs be available in Ubuntu?

If they are ditching the GNU core utils I would expect that in some point in the not so far future, they also replace GNU Emacs with Rust Emacs.

There has been attempts to make it possible:

+ https://github.com/remacs/remacs (no longer maintained)
+ https://github.com/emacs-ng/emacs-ng (no longer maintained)

But in my opinion, the best attempt to port Emacs to Rust is RUNE (https://github.com/CeleritasCelery/rune).

This is a project that should receive some love (and money) from a big company that supports Free Software. No, Microsoft doesn't count, neither Apple. (Does Canonical still counts? I don't know.)

So, @ubuntu … when are we going to have our Emacs “oxidation”?

So I've been making a scorecard for the #Sims4 legacy challenge using #Emacs #OrgMode and it's been... A learning experience.
This one is more just a proof of concept, all it's using is the base game features, and I have some of the DLC, and I've got a few gameplay mods installed, so I have other skills and traits.

I've finished most of the easy stuff I knew, next is onto figuring out how to calculate the score, which will be... More difficult

Current side quest: setup lilypond-mode in emacs

Disclaimer: I don't use #org-mode (yet)

I'm wondering if I can define somehow list(?), "source" file(?) of things I will be repetitively using, so instead of typing manually every time name of the paint / book / etc I would be able to choose it from somewhere? I don't have any specific idea how it should look like, it's about avoiding typing it every time as it increases chances for making a mistake.

As a book translator I spend my days working with texts. Also it means I have to deal with user-hostile file formats like docx. Because editors, designers...
My long-time friend was LibreOffice. I used it since version 5.something. It's a great alternative to Microsoft Office. But in other respects you have to put up with this huge bulky piece of legacy code that probably still has Sun engineers' souls trapped inside.
And I want to boast with my little personal victory. I have finally finished a book fully typed in #vim and #emacs (for the glory of both editors) in Markdown format and later processed via #pandoc to docx (with all required styles and formatting). I used LibreOffice only on the last stage to iron out some quirks and typos. It seems this workflow works.
Which means I don't have to use this huge and unhandy LibreOffice suite every day.
Now I want to figure out if I can use org format for my translations or should I stay with Markdown. Because it seems I like it here with Emacs.

Custom VC-Focused Emacs Functions to Enhance My Git Workflow https://lobste.rs/s/kcnb6n #emacs #vcs
https://www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/vc-git-functions

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