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from my link log —
Making emacs tramp go brrrr.
https://coredumped.dev/2025/06/18/making-tramp-go-brrrr./
saved 2025-06-23

@… about his decade of using #Emacs #Orgmode:

Mitsuharu Yamamoto’s Emacs Mac port provides the ‘mac-osa-script’ function, which allows you to use JavaScript to control Mac apps using JavaScript (JXA), in addition to AppleScript.
Some years ago, I made a small package to insert links from Mac apps into Emacs, inspired by grab-mac-link, but simpler, in part due to using JXA.
Today I finally took some time to add documentation. If you use the Emacs Mac port, maybe it’s of interest.

Mitsuharu Yamamoto’s Emacs Mac port provides the ‘mac-osa-script’ function, which allows you to use JavaScript to control Mac apps using JavaScript (JXA), in addition to AppleScript.
Some years ago, I made a small package to insert links from Mac apps into Emacs, inspired by grab-mac-link, but simpler, in part due to using JXA.
Today I finally took some time to add documentation. If you use the Emacs Mac port, maybe it’s of interest.

Mitsuharu Yamamoto’s Emacs Mac port provides the ‘mac-osa-script’ function, which allows you to use JavaScript to control Mac apps using JavaScript (JXA), in addition to AppleScript.
Some years ago, I made a small package to insert links from Mac apps into Emacs, inspired by grab-mac-link, but simpler, in part due to using JXA.
Today I finally took some time to add documentation. If you use the Emacs Mac port, maybe it’s of interest.

I love it when you paste an error message into the search engine, and hit a query from yesterday.
With a solution that works. #emacs

from my link log —
How to open a file in Emacs.
https://www.murilopereira.com/how-to-open-a-file-in-emacs
saved 2025-06-23

How to open a file in Emacs
A short story about Lisp, technology, and human progress.

Hoping some gnome-based #Emacs folks may have guesses: when it launches, I see the usual Emacs text menu at the top of each frame, but /somewhere/ in a long (and messy .emacs) something is 'different' from KDE and I get useless Win/Mac menu-ish things instead. Any guesses where this feature gets turned off?

i used to be the guy who made fun of ppl who wouldn't leave emacs because of magit and now i'm the guy who won't try jujutsu because of lazygit

It looks like 1) I have missed 30.2 announcement. 2) I can’t find a tagged version for 30.3.
I am using savannah Git and git tag shows emacs-30.2 but not emacs-30.3. (I did first git fetch —all —tags too)
#Emacs https://mstdn.social/@trentskunk/115033968414560407

Make sure your code follows a consitent style using the {lintr} package. #rstats

A Linter for R Code
Checks adherence to a given style, syntax errors and possible semantic issues. Supports on the fly checking of R code edited with RStudio IDE, Emacs, Vim, Sublime Text, Atom and Visual Studio Code.

Opened up an SVG file in Emacs and it surprised me by presenting the graphic and there was a little message “Type C-c C-c to switch between text and graphic forms.” What I actually wanted to do is change one color in the graphic and was able to iterate and preview without ever leaving Emacs. Smiling.
#Emacs #SVG

Naming things is hard. I finally landed on *hubi* or the *Homogeneous Unified Builder Interface*. There are many #build interface tools for #emacs and this one is mine: htt…

GitHub - stsquad/hubi: Homogeneous Unified Builder Interface - a transient interface to build tools for Emacs
Homogeneous Unified Builder Interface - a transient interface to build tools for Emacs - stsquad/hubi

Why do people fight about Emacs vs. Vim when you can, like me, just use both?

Gnome hat eine Option „Mauszeiger finden“: wenn ich die Ctrl-Taste drücke, leuchtet um den Mauszeiger eine Animation blauer Kreise auf.
Ich vergesse immer, daß es sie gibt, wenn ich wirklich mal nicht weiß, wo der Mauszeiger gerade ist, wackel ich wild mit der Maus hin und her.
Dafür werde ich bei intensiver Emacs-Nutzung von gefälliger Blubberblasen-Animation begleitet.

I find it kinda funny that the 2020 MacBook Air—my work machine (albeit with 16 GB of RAM)—is now described as being “still capable at handling basic tasks like a champ, including streaming video, browsing, and dealing with documents.”
I haven’t noticed #Emacs slowing down, so what do people do that needs so much more computing power!?

I find it kinda funny that the 2020 MacBook Air—my work machine (albeit with 16 GB of RAM)—is now described as being “still capable at handling basic tasks like a champ, including streaming video, browsing, and dealing with documents.”
I haven’t noticed #Emacs slowing down, so what do people do that needs so much more computing power!?

I find it kinda funny that the 2020 MacBook Air—my work machine (albeit with 16 GB of RAM)—is now described as being “still capable at handling basic tasks like a champ, including streaming video, browsing, and dealing with documents.”
I haven’t noticed #Emacs slowing down, so what do people do that needs so much more computing power!?

from my link log —
Emacs which-key vs Embark for help on prefix keymaps.
https://www.matem.unam.mx/~omar/apropos-emacs.html#the-case-against-which-key-a-polemic
saved 2025-07-08

Came back from a 2 week vacation with 207 captured #orgmode headings with notes, ideas, bookmarks, ...
#PIM #Emacs

There is something very satisfying about building my blog now with #Emacs.
However it is quite a large yak to shave.
Styling needs to be finished but RSS is already working thanks to @…
The whole thing is of course set up in a reproducible way with

Apropos of last weekends #emacs hacking. How many times would you ask an #llm to generate a #regex for you before you give up and just use a

Fareless transit is the emacs-vs-vim debate of the urbanist nerd.

#Emacs 30.2 built from source and running.
I'm using the following configuration:
```
CFLAGS="-DFD_SETSIZE=10000 -DDARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT" ./configure --with-ns --with-mailutils --with-x-toolkit=no --with-tree-sitter --with-modules --with-xwidgets --with-native-compilation --program-transform-name='s/^ctags$/emctags/'
make install
```

When I was young “culture war” referred to the vi and eMacs crowds both being wrong about how great of an editor nano is.

"On a normal ascii line, the only safe condition to detect is a 'BREAK'
- everything else having been assigned functions by Gnu EMACS."
(By Tarl Neustaedter)

The e in eMacs comes from the Enlightenment window manager, which will have a working release within the next half-decade.
#pooptoot

Using #Emacs 29.4 (railwaycat) on MacOS. Recently, I've been getting random “file has changed on disk” messages.
Thinking that these must be spurious changes (the file is copied and moved?), so I tried auto-revert-mode, but it seems that this has actually lost data—only #Orgmode clock tim…

Using #Emacs 29.4 (railwaycat) on MacOS. Recently, I've been getting random “file has changed on disk” messages.
Thinking that these must be spurious changes (the file is copied and moved?), so I tried auto-revert-mode, but it seems that this has actually lost data—only #Orgmode clock tim…

Using #Emacs 29.4 (railwaycat) on MacOS. Recently, I've been getting random “file has changed on disk” messages.
Thinking that these must be spurious changes (the file is copied and moved?), so I tried auto-revert-mode, but it seems that this has actually lost data—only #Orgmode clock tim…

A few days ago I got very excited when seeing a link for a minimal emacs setup.
Why? My Emacs setup is not minimal. And I always think it is not well enough organized.
I stopped looking at this minimal setup project very early. I have realized that I’d have to use and learn yet another set of settings that this would translate into Emacs options.
I perceive this extra indirection layer as an added complexity and distancing myself from understanding Emacs.

#Emacs #UOMF: Linking Headings
https://www.karl-voit.at/2019/11/16/UOMF-Linking-Headings…

TIL: I can read and write toots with #Emacs! (mastodon.el)

I don’t really have a use for Denote #Emacs package (I had some my own much simpler but similar solution).
It’s so thoroughly and thoughtfully documented that I am finding ways to use it.
Thank you Protesilaos Stavrou! https://protesilaos.com/emacs/denote

Trying to think of a project name for my #transient #emacs build tool interface. I've been playing around with an anglicisation of the #welsh phrase "iechyd da" which is often used as a drin…

Using #Orgmode for so many years, I just recently stumbled over the Elisp function "org-copy-visible" which is practical as hell: it copies the currently visible characters.
So you can collapse/expand, mark a region and then copy only the visible parts of it.
Particular helpful when you paste into non-Emacs or non-orgdown situations. Or to manually generate some table of conten…

What does it mean when % is displayed before a buffer name in #Emacs Ibuffer?

The only documentation I can find about using the `:custom` keyword with use-package is "The :custom keyword allows customization of package custom variables."
I have no idea how to read that.
1. Can I do (recent-mode t)?
2. If I am to set a config option like dired-dwim-target to t do I write that: (dired-dwim-target t) or (setq dired-dwim-target t)?
#Emacs #UsePackage

Its too hot outside so I've been doing some #emacs hacking porting #counsel-compile to a #casual #transient