Participating in Emacs carnival after a long time.

https://tusharhero.codeberg.page/may-i-recommend-these-lesser-known-org-modes.html

I am also excited about next month's carnival because someone is picking up an idea I suggested :)

#Emacs

#emacs #mu4e

is there no way in mu4e to jump to an email in an inbox, e.g. no imenu? any folks have this setup some other way? surely y'all aren't just holding the down arrow till you get to the email you want to reply to...

Outlook is the absolute bane of my existence. Why is it that my draft email is completely unresponsive after I get back to it after a while? I wish I could just use GNUS or notmuch with #emacs but for these so called security reasons, my org has whitelisted imap access only for the outlook webmail and thunderbird (which according to IT is not recommended and will not be given first class support).

Oh and did I tell you that thunderbird doesn't work on my personal laptop because of said policies by IT? No wonder the astronauts on the Artemis mission had two broken instances of outlook. Good work #Microslop.

@oantolin This looks amazing! I'm always enamored by elisp zealots like you. Any recommendations to getting good at hacking on elisp? Maybe I should read the built-in `eintr` manual. #emacs @sacha

The wonder / danger of writing a novel in org-mode is that you can be writing a scene and suddenly have an idea about something you could do to make your life easier, and then spend a few minutes (or more) implementing it.

For example, this story's going to have a lot of back-and-forth over chat, and I wanted to be able to represent that visually in the final e-pub.

So, now I've got functionality to quickly set-up the blocks required to make that happen, and to visually represent it.

#emacs

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text in org-mode showing a chat between two characters. the "me" text is indented to farther to the right as is the convention in the left-to-right reading world.

.....and some staring

#linuxadmin #mailinglist #linuxkernel #opensource #tool #emacs #notmuch

Ah, missing pieces plugged into the jigsaw puzzle ...thanks a bunch, whoever you are!

#linuxadmin #emacs #tool #opensource #gnu

PS: Hey.....hey ...I am always late to the party...... never mind 😜

https://tsdh.org/posts/2021-06-06-update-all-emacs-packages-from-the-command-line.html

Did you know that GNU Emacs and Allegro CL Common Lisp were both shipped in the original NeXT system release?

#Emacs

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Original NeXT product sheet with GNU Emacs highlighted.

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Original NeXT product sheet with Allegro CL Common Lisp highlighted.

Assigning your copyright to the FSF helps defend the GPL and keep software free. Thank you Ewan Townshend for assigning your copyright to the FSF! More at: https://u.fsf.org/463 #Emacs #CopyrightAssignments

@sacha reminded me that I have fun writing code to generate neat pictures in #Emacs! I added a new picture type to luggage¹: hexinuous, which looks like this.

¹ https://github.com/oantolin/lugagge

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Hexagonal tiling with sinuous ribbons winding around and going over or under each other many times.

Song, generated via Suno, the theme is #emacs #emacslisp #emacsconfig

Somzera da porra!

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Song, generated via Suno, the theme is #emacs #emacslisp #emacsconfig

Sooo... #Emacs's awk-mode really doesn't like it when I do something like this /[^]]/.

It confuses the hell out of the auto-indentation.

https://blog.southfox.me/2026/05/may-i-recommend-treating-emacs-as-emacs/

My post "May I recommend... Treating Emacs as Emacs" for the #EmacsCarnival .

#Emacs

@restorante I use #Emacs in various aspects of my teaching, as well as almost all of my work.

I've made some blog posts about it. And I've made some videos about it.

https://fediverse.tv/c/emacs_with_dr_howell/videos

@acdw

Holly 🐄 ! #Hyperorg arrived in the official #Debian repository.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/hyperorg

It is an #org to #html converter regarding the #Zettelkasten principles.

#emacs #org #orgroam #html #orgparse #foss #opensource

Galera do #emacs

Vocês tem usado o Corfu ou o Company como autcomplete?

Depois de anos usando Company, acho que quero testar o Corfu.

Using LLMs in Emacs

Writing these lines while experimenting with Chatbots within Emacs, using both gptel and aidermacs. I am still trying to find an attitude towards the use of tools and possibilities provided by large language models. My own parameters or constraints on working with LLM are based on being curious and being autonomous. So I am happy i have access to some models hosted on German servers within my academic networks. While this is not self-hosting in the strict sense, it still gives me a large sense of agency, because at least in theory i could host these open-weight-models myself.

Having access to a chatbot directly within Emacs through gptel empowers me and allows me to get quick responses on asking about short-cuts and commands i don’t remember and it feels like it is supporting my learning journey within Emacs.

As a teacher, being surrounded by students who use the commercially available solutions from OpenAI, Google or Anthropic, i feel very much a responsibility to explore alternative routes.

Still within my Fediverse-bubble, I read a lot of strong rejection of any usage of LLM’s so writing these lines feels like a confession.

However my experience so far is rather positive, Emacs is becoming itself much more usable and i am starting to play with aidermacs for simple playful projects like hacking a defunct laser-cutter and turning it into a drawing machine.

@bignose @bashbunni @tarsius Short tutorial for those who haven't learnt #Emacs yet:

* Inserting a character: press the character's button on your keyboard
* Moving the cursor: press the arrow buttons
* Erasing the previous character: press the backspace button

Meeting notes: https://list.orgmode.org/87ecitjbjp.fsf@Host-002.lan/T/#u

TL;DR: RSS/email workflow; new bug
tracker; Gentoo installation via tangle; bash/python blocks with live output; sentence-at-point patch; reporting bugs with patches; org-babel-post-tangle-hook; debugging Emacs config; open a link from inside heading (built-in); browsing web as Org files (shrface); notmuch setup; renaming org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c and similar.

Earlier notes:
https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html
#OrgMeetup #orgmode #meetup #emacs @sacha

Как один зажёванный лист в принтере Xerox привел к созданию GNU Linux и всей философии Open Source

Принято считать, что современный IT-мир построили Гейтс, Джобс или Торвальдс. Но без одного бородатого хакера из MIT, который в 80-х вусмерть разругался с принтером Xerox, у нас бы не было ни Linux, ни Android, ни концепции Open Source в её нынешнем виде. Ричард Столлман — создатель проекта GNU и вирусной лицензии GPL, самый радикальный, неудобный и бескомпромиссный философ от мира IT. Долгие годы индустрия считала его эксцентричным параноиком, который принципиально не пользуется смартфонами и шарахается от проприетарного софта. Но в эпоху тотальной корпоративной слежки и коммерциализации каждого байта его идеи внезапно обрели новый, пугающе актуальный смысл. Вспоминаем историю человека, который в одиночку решил сделать программное обеспечение свободным — и у него почти получилось.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1041420/

#Ричард_Столлман #Richard_Stallman #RMS #GNU #Linux #GPL #Free_Software #Open_Source #Emacs

Sous #emacs j'utilise whitespace-mode
Très pratique piur trouver les espaces et différencier tab et espace.

@bashbunni #Magit is so good, I have recommended developers learn #Emacs solely on the strength of how much they will enjoy https://magit.vc/

Thank you @tarsius!

"""
Oh, hello. What are you doing in my neovim?
"""
--- they, as to their agenda, which had somehow migrated from emacs to neovim

#emacs #orgmode #neovim #justaclientmaam

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my agenda, as in emacs

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my agenda, as in neovim

Emacs bra size calculator https://pulusound.fi/blog/emacs-bra-size-calculator #emacs

ZOMG HOW DID I MISS THIS

EMACS IMMORTALITY my blog post was featured on Irreal and I missed it

https://irreal.org/blog/?p=13531

#emacs

@Haydar Was ich auch sehr gerne lesen würde wäre ein Artikel, wo jemand wie du mit #Emacs #Orgmode anfängt und sich gleich ein System baut, das ihm mit technischen Limits und Nudges vom Übertreiben mit Config-Spielchen bewahrt. 😻

Gäbe genug Ideen: Config im Dateisystem read-only setzen; bei Änderungen verpflichtende git-Commits und eine korrekte Hashsumme fürs Weiternutzen generieren sodass man vor dem Aufwand zurückschreckt, ...

Das wäre schon ziemlich cool, würde dir die Basics in Org à la todo.txt-Level einfach ermöglichen und dich vorm Herumspielen etwas beschützen.

Und ja, ich kann mich gut in dieses Problem hineinversetzen. 😉 Aber als Nerd kann man da kreativ werden und andere daran teilhaben lassen. 🤓

#PIM

Omg im officially #emacs famous! https://irreal.org/blog/?p=13836

Emacs bra size calculator https://lobste.rs/s/yszuka #emacs
https://pulusound.fi/blog/emacs-bra-size-calculator

#emacs #brainiac #productivity #systems

Time has come to release a new version of Brainiac. The whole configuration file has been almost completly restructured, cleaned up and properly commented. So I will declare this to be version 2.0.

Following changes have been made:

• READ.md has been extended to explain the installation and usage.
• Readability improvements:
  • All colors decisions are now left to Modus themes, we only change typografy, e.g. underline the PROG tasks to encode work in progress.
  • Multiple Org elements were restyled, e.g. ellipsis, tags etc., to improve scanability in large documents.
  • Added the configuration for fixed and variable pitch fonts. You may set the font family to your liking.
  • Packages org-bullets, org-appear and diminish introduced.
  • Priority cookies are removed after the task is closed, to remove visual clutter.
  • When saving, the tags will be aligned automatically.
• Added number of matches to isearch.
• Repeaters are now visible in the agenda.
• When jumping to items from the agenda, automatic narrow is done to improve focus.
• Capture from anywhere is now implemented by a custom script based on org-protocol.
• Many, many small tweaks, fixes and changes.

Get the new release from here.

Enjoy and keep hacking!

@chrisgerhard @CorvidCrone this, plus the very nice info pages for more structured details. Preferably read in #emacs, but there are plenty alternatives.

Testing strategies to remove any sensitive information from my #OrgMode agenda and org-ql search results for tomorrow's #Emacs Chat with @sacha.

I think just removing the sensitive org files from the list of files I usually search (appropriately named org-ql-usual-files) leaves enough search results to comfortably demo things (and removing those might be a neat 20 second demo of Embark). I might add some large extra file, to get more search results, like https://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.org

Assigning your copyright to the FSF helps defend the GPL and keep software free. Thank you Andrea Alberti for assigning your copyright to the FSF! More at: https://u.fsf.org/463 #Emacs #CopyrightAssignments

#emacs #lisp #emacslisp #catsofmastodon

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Björk's kitty husband: I SHOULD LEARN MORE EMACS LISP

watching @sacha and Prot chat about Emacs meta-strategies for learning and enjoying #emacs today was such a pleasant time.

thank you Sacha for sharing the time with us!

FYI, if you're in the San Francisco Bay Area and want to talk Emacs, coffee.el is having their monthly meeting this Saturday, May 30 at 11am at Haus Coffee. Details in the link below. All, from the curious to expert-level, are welcome.

https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/314950692/

#Emacs #SanFrancisco #SFBA

#TIL by accident that #Emacs has a built-in dictionary. I was using all CPU cores of my PC and couldn't afford opening a web browser, but I was reviewing a manuscript and my Emacs was also open. I went out on a limp and tried `M-x dictionary` and there it was, the glorious `dictionary-search` and `dictionary-lookup-definition`.

@Zenie @jbaty Giving up #TextExpander was the final, biggest obstacle to transitioning to Linux from MacOS eight or ten years ago. #AutoKey did the job under X, mostly, and #Espanso works sometimes under Wayland but only after a sojourn in config hell. But neither has ever been reliable. It must be a difficult problem space because it just doesn't ever work.

The vast majority of my snippets are for composing email, so I moved them to #yasnippet after I loved to #mu4e. And #Emacs has never let me down.

But that leaves tons of stuff in the browser where one is left just to muddle through.

Concerning Emacs (and Jazz) https://lobste.rs/s/dt7jn8 #emacs
https://omidmash.de/blog/concerning-emacs

@simontatham

So … how many people so far today have told you that it was almost certainly a recording of an eshell session, which was then copied into the animations by animators; the process used for other scenes and revealed later by the person who did these effects? Basically the terminal user's equivalent of motion capture.

Got to be more than one. (-:

https://web.archive.org/web/20111007222352/http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php?q=178

Or that have pointed out Xorg in the process list? There's probably something to be inferred from those window widgets, too.

Alas, I strongly suspect that the person who did this died in the first year of COVID.

https://jtnimoy.cc

#TronLegacy #emacs #eshell #SunOS #Unix #Cinema4D #Adobe

What are you guts actually using to switch between buffers in #emacs? and I mean efficiently - not just randomly tabbing through with C-x and the arrows. Are you using ibuffer, tabs, or what??

You can do it.

The only thing standing between you and what you want to do is a guided tour of multiple pop-ups you need to dismiss before you can get to that one thing you need to do, if you don't get distracted before you reach the point where you can do it.

Use #emacs, btw. Emacs has never greeted anyone with a guided tour that they need to dismiss when they open the app. Imagine if you were in control of the tool that lets you do exactly what you want. You can have it today if you want it.

Ok #zig and #emacs friends… how on earth can I fix the noise in my compilation buffer? Other tools do not seem to have a problem and I already use ansi-color-compilation-filter. Is Zig doing something above and beyond?

Playing #chess online with #Emacs

🇬🇧 https://en.andros.dev/blog/d8b3a759/playing-chess-online-with-emacs/
🇪🇸 https://andros.dev/blog/002f1b83/jugando-al-ajedrez-en-red-con-emacs/

@paniash #Emacs, #academia, #Mastodon: we so effin NICHE every single one of us is LISTED HERE

@oantolin @profoundlynerdy @slackline @rougier @ericsfraga @randyridenour @zamansky @kjhealy

On the #LispyGopherClimate podcast today, me, @screwlisp and @kentpitman had a fascinating conversation with @someodd .

During our conversation I remember her dropping this idea that the #GopherProtocol was all about menus. I remember this because she had said something like it in her Bartleby RFC document which I had read earlier, “But gopher is hierarchical. That’s the whole point. It’s a tree of menus, not a stream of content.” (I copy-pasted the section from which that quote comes below).

Just two weeks prior on the #LispyGopherClimate podcast we had a discussion with @chiply about “incremental completing read,” which was directly related to @karthink ‘s blog post on the Emacs Avy package.

So here is my crazy synthesis of the two: Emacs Avy as a Gopher client!!!

The incremental completing read pattern goes “Filter a list of results -> Select an item -> perform an action on the item.” The action could be to read the page, or to open a link that may trigger an “applet” action. I can see a whole new way to browse the Internet: no search engines, no LLM chat, just type what you think may exist and narrow down the list of all the content until you find something that you might want to read!

Is this post an attempt at humor, or am I just rambling? A little of each. I do want to try to build this thing, if anything to see how funny it would be to try to browse the Gopher network that way.

(Quoting @someodd )

I’ve been thinking a lot about how people in gopherspace – myself included – try too hard to make gopher be like the web. We abuse directories so we can have files with links. We call our writing “phlogs” which is just “blog” with a different letter, and then our phlogs end up looking like imitations of blogs anyway. Reverse chronological. Post after post. A timeline.

But gopher is hierarchical. That’s the whole point. It’s a tree of menus, not a stream of content. And the biggest abuse of gopher I see is people trying to flatten that hierarchy, trying to make it not-hierarchical, because that’s what the web trained us to expect.

So I started asking: what would sharing information look like if gopher had won? If the web never happened and something other than blogs took off? You wouldn’t have “posts.” You’d have a library. Subjects on shelves. You’d browse by walking through the stacks, not by scrolling a timeline.

That’s what bartleby is trying to be. Not a blog engine that speaks gopher, but a tool that takes the hierarchy seriously. Collections are the primary axis, not dates. Recent acquisitions exist, but they’re the display by the door, not the organizing principle.