iLemming

> I have eshell bound to a keybind, but I've never use it For years, I had a similar feeling about it. And then I learned that in eshell you can pipe in and out of buffers. So you can for exam…

I'm using Emacs to read these comments. Because... why not?

Emacs in its half-a-century existence afaik never had "batteries included" narrative. Whatever comes bundled in Emacs, either practical or not so much (e.g. tetris) - are recipes and guides …

Yes, it may sound like that to someone unacquainted with it. But have you ever thought about the reasons why Emacs remains relevant and triumphant even half a century later? Here's really fascina…

> How does Magit handle complex merges Like most of the things in Emacs - with variability that can suit [almost] every scenario - you can simply accept upstream or downstream changes with a keypre…

> is there any alternative path Yes there is - `alias vim='emacs -nw'` :) Seriously though, do grant Lisp serious consideration - Emacs only truly comprehensible through the lens of Lisp.…

Not trying to snob you, just for didactic means: Magit easily does that and more: - Not only you can see the log for an individual file - you can trace the evolution of a given function. - Yo…

> anything else it can do? 'It' can do virtually anything you want to get done. I'm not sure what you expect here, the laundry list of possibilities?

That's some weirdest complain, sounds like standing in a fully stocked kitchen and muttering there's nothing to eat. You're using the pinnacle of malleable apps, why don't you just…

Magit would make no sense outside of Emacs, because it's not just an extension - it's also a bunch of libs anyone can use - the way how Emacs works allows you to re-use and modify any behavi…

The opposite is also true. I have never heard anyone climbing the ladder specifically because they are "so fucking good" with [insert whatever IDE/editor] Dude is saying nonsense. "…

Yeah, before Emacs, it never occurred to me to even think of trying to control my browser from my editor. I never thought that I can type just about any text, not in the input box of some app, but in …

I genuinely never understood running Emacs in terminal, instead running terminal in GUI Emacs. That, until a day I joined a team where most development happens on remote EC2s, where people create join…

In the related news, master branch of Emacs now supports child frames in the terminal https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/m2h694lp7s.fsf@gmail.com , hopefully available in the next sta…

Wait, you hooked up Claude Code to gptel, or you're talking about its models Opus, etc.?

The only 2¢ I can add here is that LLMs are surprisingly good for solving tasks that involve Elisp. There's large corpus of Emacs Lisp in the wild - the amount of it on GitHub alone is shocking. …

I'm not trying to snub you nor am I arguing with you - my opinions are just that - I never said they are fundamentally true for everyone. Similarly, your experiences are yours - it would be wrong…

> I wouldn't say my expertise and abilities has grown exponentially Things always look easier only after you solve a problem, don't they? That is a known as hindsight bias (also calle…

You just unironically proved my point. Who's got a decade to spare, when they can wield the power in just a couple of months?

I think the problem that most beginners try to explore the editor features, instead of focusing on main fundamental truth about Emacs - it's not just an editor, it's a Lisp system with a bui…

I think your arguments are fair, well, for the most part of your sentiment anyway. I do use CIDER almost daily and have not experienced critical memory leaks and I don't feel like I'm fighti…

Are you writing all that sql simply to examine the existing data, or you're actively writing migratory expressions and such? For the former - if you're willing to completely alter your persp…

> the format should be self-justifying Well, it really is. Org-mode is absolutely amazing for anything that can be [even vaguely] expressed in the outline format - anything hierarchical - personal …

> I want my constellation of tools to be as interoperable as possible. Unironically, that's exactly what knowing some Lisp and Emacs gets me, and it seems to me you simply have very little ide…

I have done that for awesomewm https://github.com/agzam/awesomewm.d/blob/main/src/emacs.fnl I'm not using it anymore though. I moved to Hyprland. I built…

I don't use Windows these days. For Mac I wrote a simple Hammerspoon script; on Linux I do this on every WM I use - they typically have a way. You just need to call emacsclient to load a helper e…

I use Yabai on Mac for a WM - it works great with my big screen, but I haven't figured out a good workflow for when I need to use just the laptop, then it becomes a bunch of spaces with one or tw…

What's your wish for? Navigating the chats more efficiently, or simply typing the messages? If the latter, why haven't you figured out a workflow where you do all your typing in Emacs, or wh…

This is actually a legit complaint. The proper naming would be "Org-Babel" - even in the context of Emacs it's almost always, invariable prefixed.

Yup, never had no problem with that. My notes are in Org - if I ever need to grab something to share with a colleague, my yanking command is advised - with a prefix it calls Pandoc and converts to mar…