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> having your markup language tied to an editor Org-mode isn't just a markup though, and Emacs ain't just an editor - it's rather one cohesive system. I use Org-mode to manage all my…

One of the biggest wins in my life that Emacs has granted me is the principle of never sacrificing plain text liberties. I could've probably achieved similar results using other tools, but the wa…

What I don't understand in all that noise from the LLM critics - they keep talking about how LLMs are so horrendously bad at writing code as if that's the only thing we're trying to use…

Somewhat relevant: can somebody share good mpv defaults (or some other interesting technique) for playing YT videos? I have managed to get it to work, but it still pauses a lot for bufferring. I wonde…

I feel there's much more to it. There are so many pieces in Clojure that just feel like they're done right. Even after a decade of using it, I remain happy. Not a single other language (and …

Yup, only Dired allows you to edit your file structure tree like editing a wiki page and at the same time integrates well with source control. Where else can you mark some files and dirs and see the g…

Why? Vim is not just a concrete set of products. It's also an idea. One can perfectly remain a die-hard vimmer and use Emacs. That's a fundamental truth unrecognized only by those who misund…

Those who still remember Norton and Far Commanders, can you recall this favorite song of yours, once even featured in "Madagascar"? <F6><Tab>, <F6><Tab> I like to mov…

Cool. elfeed rocks. I should use it more.

> I can come back to a Clojure program I wrote ten years ago and it runs great Is that thanks to JVM or due to the way how Clojure works? Because I can share the same anecdotes for my Clojurescript…

> i access it via emacs elfeed?

> It still looks to me like Linux 20 years ago. Like visually? I personally don't care much for animations, transitions, rounded corners (this one I actually hate, because you can't even …

My biggest gripe with macOS vs. Linux is that the former allows IT departments to completely control them. They overload these otherwise very capable machines with so much crap that things start to cr…

Some workflows not possible on Windows. I avoid using Windows thus I don't care about the pain of having to depend on it - have zero interest in what's not possible somewhere else. What'…

> seems to be a pretty accurate emulation of Emacs Orgmode Oh, so it allows you to have source blocks in different languages where you can pass data between one another? I am highly skeptical it&#x…

> why ... didn't help answer this simple question? How do you know it didn't? Someone may have observed it and fixed it someplace else, but from the point of OP it doesn't matter to …

"When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge." The journey itself is more important than the destination.

Emacs is not really a text editor. It's rather a Lisp REPL with a built-in text editor. Everything what makes Emacs so great is because of that. That specifically makes it difficult to compare wi…

> that's how apps decline in popularity and eventually die, thus decreasing the value of the huge amount of time you've invested That's true. That happened to many apps that I invite…

All of these points are wrong, or at least debatable. Emacs is not slow, or unergonomic, and certainly not hard to change. What elitism are you talking about? Is math or string theory elitist? If I fi…

> I disagree with the other commenters about there being a steep learning curve There's a "steep" learning curve with Emacs only because people constantly get focused on the wrong as…

Two words: "depend a bot"... Okay, three words... Anyway, updating dependencies and fixing bugs is "maintenance", not "adding new features". From the project management p…

I think even better to encrypt the password in ~/.authinfo.gpg, e.g., machine my_db login my_usr password bla-bla-123 And then in the source block header, you can inject it into a varia…

I don't even write in Rust, yet I'm curious if those libraries you talk about are truly in "abandoned" state and not simply in "done" state? Some languages somehow manage…

Yes! Doom Emacs & Spacemacs are recipe books, not necessarily concrete products you have to use in prescriptive manner. Any Emacs user can make use of their modules, some of them are full of inter…

Lua is especially annoying - even after years of using it I just can't really decide how to format it for better readability. lua-fmt sometimes works, often it makes it even worse. I welcomed Fen…

> code have much less importance than in other fields. Although I'm not a game developer anymore (I've done some in the past) I still have hard time believing this sentiment to be true, e…

> As I understand, you mean, fp approach is comfortable to work with large codebase. I didn't say anything about "large codebases" or "FP approach". I'm just saying th…

Fennel already "works". There's a small community of devs around it and in my opinion and practice, it remains a better choice to use instead of Lua directly. I don't even hesitate…

AFAIK Janet is not "much simpler to interface with C++". Janet has good FFI for C, but not for C++ directly. Janet's native FFI system is designed specifically for C libraries. C++ has …