"Many users choose to sacrifice a little screen real-estate to display some generally useful information: the current time and date, wireless network connections, the names of open windows, etc. #StumpWM allows you to display this information in a bar across either the top or the bottom of the screen."

What happens if I don't want to use that screen real-estate and instead just put a clock in my #Emacs mode line? Well, apparently the answer is on a different page: "The mode line can be turned on and off with the mode-line command or the lisp function stumpwm:toggle-mode-line". Cool, got to check it out.

This documentation is old enough to still make reference not to polybar, but to stalonetray, which got me chuckling - time flies fast...

Okay, here it is. Public for the first time.

https://codeberg.org/jamesendreshowell/emacs-config

#emacs #emacslisp

Anyone familiar with mastodon.el (the #emacs client for #mastodon)? I've tried for the first time to run it and I keep getting the following error:

Contacting host: bsd.cafe:443
Loading home timeline...
json-read: JSON readtable error: 60

🌗 我的 i3-emacs 整合實作
➤ 透過核心級修改突破視窗管理器與文字編輯器的整合瓶頸
✤ https://khz.ac/software/i3-integration.html
本文探討作者如何解決 Emacs 與 i3 視窗管理器之間的快捷鍵衝突與整合問題。作者曾嘗試使用 `xdotool` 等工具將按鍵轉發給 Emacs，但發現延遲過高且效能不佳。最終，作者選擇直接修改 i3 的原始程式碼，加入一種機制：若當前聚焦的視窗為 Emacs，則將按鍵事件直接轉發給該應用程式，繞過 i3 原本的綁定邏輯。此舉成功提升了操作的流暢度與整合體驗。
+ 這解決了多年來困擾我的快捷鍵延遲問題，直接 Patch i3 雖然激進，但在無法透過軟體層解決時確實是最優解。
+ 很有趣的實作！雖然作者提到還沒完全解決視窗失去焦點的問題，但這種對原始碼的深入剖析非常值得參考。
#Linux #i3wm #Emacs #軟體工程 #開源開發

emacs has got to be the ultimate in empathetic computing

I've yet to not be able to get it to meet me where I am, in this case it's markdown editing and beefing up the undo capabilities of the old Oculus engine in Wanderland. Oculus was the graph based executable markdown that still runs the backend of all of my sites. Markdown + executable fences + a simple peek/poke/call API for anything in its graph. Content addressable stuff for doing like whatever.

tabulated-list-mode on <l>WoU displays the undo stack for the current node. P to toggle snapshot pinning (for preservation). N gives the snapshot a name (a la git tag).

Preview / Snapshot / Restore your markdown files like save points in an RPG (which is how we got into this mess in the first place)

#emacs #orgmode

Alt...

a help file for the forgetful

Alt...

a test surface, a roll back surface and a cardinal set of edges as for navigation

Oh and the best part... the auto-edits all come with context. Any of the system level stuff or the Claudes and friends will announce why the snapshot was created directly in the list.

Emacs for the agentic age. Sorry RMS, it is kind of neat though

#emacs

Alt...

couple of additional snapshots created while demoing the system

And of course this was going to happen wasn't it?

Refactor your documents org-mode style, just with ###s taking over for our friends the stars.

Each section header owns its tokens in the graph, so moving them is just a matter of reassigning the header and its content goes with it.

Same slug or whole graph, content addressable content doesn't care what its address is.

And when we're done, we'll clean up after ourselves like mom taught us

#emacs #orgmode

My I3-Emacs Integration

https://khz.ac/software/i3-integration.html

#HackerNews #I3 #Emacs #Integration #EmacsConfig #Productivity #SoftwareDevelopment

🤡 Oh, the classic tale of "let's integrate two complex things because why not?" 🙄 Here we have someone heroically wrestling with window managers and #editors, only to discover that not all programs play nice with their grand vision—especially those rowdy apps like #Steam. But hey, at least #Emacs can switch themes, right? 🎨✨
https://khz.ac/software/i3-integration.html #windowmanagers #integration #humor #HackerNews #ngated

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

@paniash Recently our own @oantolin's example inspired me to move to this completely declarative model in which all my own code goes into local "packages" in the user-lisp directory.

But years ago now our own @sacha's example inspired me to move to a literate config, which finally extinguished the endless cycle of confusion and bankruptcy.

Having an Org outline provides conceptual modularity, but having discrete declarations provides computational modularity.

#emacs

NEW BLOG POST:

Match Emacs and GNOME light/dark theme

https://jamesendreshowell.com/2026-05-23-match-emacs-and-gnome-light-dark-theme.html

#blog #emacs #gnome

#emacs - I have tried ghostel yesterday, a very impressive project! looks like the build got nix-ified so I get it packaged nicely on nix-darwin. vterm has been a workhorse for many years but this is a clean improvement over vterm

Look, I found this to be really good, very interesting! https://kumakichi.github.io/org-github-pages.html #emacs #orgmode

My #Emacs config file now contains only use-package declarations. Took some doing, but now startup is significantly faster, and managing the thing is significantly easier.

#gnu #yakshaving

Lisp in Vim (2019)

https://susam.net/lisp-in-vim.html

#HackerNews #Lisp #Vim #Programming #Emacs #Editor #2019

Anyone fancy trying out a new markdown renderer in #emacs agent-shell and reporting bugs?

Branch at https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell/pull/597

#emacs #claude #anthropic #ai #google #goose #gemini #linux #github #macos #oss #foss #opencode #codex #vibe #windows

[The tool to do everything... even for the meaning of Life!] Since Wednesday 2026-05-20, "Denote version 4.2.0" has been released!
It's developped by Protesilaos Stavrou, aka Prot.
It's in text #format (plain text, or #Mardown, or #Orgmode).
It allows you to take notes very powerfully (tags, links & backlinks,...).
It works with #Emacs and Orgmode, which is for "your life in plain text" (calendar, TODOs, code, emails, speadsheet,...).
And it is at https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-05-20-emacs-denote-4-2-0/
Happy Denoting!

Almost every #emacs user I know has their own config (they don't like pre-made distributions like Spacemacs or Doom).

(bind-key* "s-r" 'jabber-roster)
(bind-key* "s-u" 'jabber-roster-chat-unread)

Now that’s what I call hotkeys. They are going to see a lot of action 🐱☕

#lang_en #jabber_el #Emacs

@Zenie @dekkzz78 so... I found your opinion on the matter strong. Especially beacause we have many more editor options nowadays (with various conveniences). For example, the trend is that 1 out of every 10 developers or reserarchers uses something like VScode rather than #emacs. I wonder if the new generations have embraced more complex editors like #vim and #emacs???