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Evil is not just great. It's the only "true" vim layer outside of vim/nvim worth commending. Gary Bernhardt once said: "there's no such thing as vim mode", in the se…

> If you let the footgun machine constantly generate new code Are you talking about autonomous LLM projects that automatically write code? Yeah, no shit, I wouldn't run anything like that dire…

Don't try to "learn Emacs". Grok the foundational layer - Lisp. Emacs is not an editor - it's first and foremost Lisp interpreter with a built-in editor. You need to get two things…

Can't agree more. Lisp was discovered/invented for the purpose of AI research. Of course, modern neural nets and transformers is a big departure from McCarthy's vision of AI - logical, …

Hmm... it's hard to imagine that fishing with dynamite ever caused species extinction; trawling industry definitely did. I don't think it's a fitting analogy, but I get what you're…

Ah come on, guys, let's talk pragmatically. "Malleable editor as an OS layer" has benefits beyond subjective reasoning. Emacs has had M-x shell-command and arbitrary elisp eval forever.…

> I don’t see a particularly clear winner between them Because deep down they are incomparable categorically. Separate the tools from the foundational ideas and you see the very different value. Vi…

> Tons of companies are still fixing the losses from vibe coding. Well, you have to separate "future of" from "ensuing damage". This is similar to the fishing industry. Fisherme…

So? My terminal has the same full system access. If I didn't use Emacs, I'd be using Claude code in it. It's contained locally on my computer, I don't see any problem here. I use E…

> I don't think a lot of people understand what they're missing Very true. There's an enormous tacit knowledge gap. Check this out: I have to use Mac for work. My WM is Yabai, which …

Of course. I've tried different AI packages and currently gptel and ECA remain the main ingredients. This is a quickly changing landscape, and things may change, but for now it feels very good. I…

Care to explain? Why is it? You think it's dangerous or some other reasons?

That's a quote. You may want to ask Sheikh Mohammed (current ruler of Dubai) for why his dad was mocking him for his choice of a car. I just posted the quote - felt relevant.

"My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, and my grandson is going to ride a camel". Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, the forme…

Spacemacs "is not batteries-included" version of Emacs. You say that and people may get confused. It's not a "different version" of Emacs, it's not Emacs at all - it'…

First GitHub, now NPM? Oh no... That is happening, guys. Rise of the machines. I hope Jira is next and Slack follows.

Yup, whenever someone asks "how many people work on your team?", I usually answer: "about one third..."

Wow, this taking unusually long to fix. I suppose the team trying to fix it hit the Claude session limits and now can't do anything until the end of the cooldown and the only person who knows how…

A lazy-clone virtual filesystem? That is way out of scope for this project. FUSE needs a userspace daemon and Elisp is not a practical choice for implementing it - you're gonna need to build a C…

Yes - works with both.

> Being smart, accomplished, or experienced is no defence. Perhaps you're confusing "not using AI" with "not being dependent on AI", those are very different things. The ed…

Why? What makes Spacemacs so different/special that it requires some kind of distinct opinion that would be extremely valuable? Spacemacs is the same old Emacs with some out-of-the box customizat…

> LLMs have inspired a similar change in me FWIW, the age of LLMs made me build a deeper, more intimate relationship with Emacs, because it's a Lisp REPL loop with a built-in editor, not the o…

From what I can tell (by just glancing over the code) - it doesn't open the tree in Dired. I just wanted to browse any GitHub repo in Dired. You can browse the tree in any branch, view and copy f…

The bigger point is not about "a better UI", it's about having control over plain text. My issue with things like Jira/GitHub/Slack is not that they don't provide nice UI…

r/emacs discussion https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1sutzz6/new_package_... …

Ah, okay. I get now what the question meant. Sorry, it's past midnight here and my brain is ketchup. Git's own protocols let you talk to a remote repo without cloning it, so why not use that…

Of course it needs to use the API. How are you otherwise read the private repos?

> I'm talking about beginners If the beginners are curious about Lisp and insist on using VSCode, they can install Calva and try Clojure. It takes less than a minute and it has a really good &…

> Emacs is really slow on Windows Emacs on native Windows has to go through the Win32 API for everything - file I/O, process spawning, subprocesses. Packages that shell out constantly (lsp-mod…