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@teledyn@mstdn.ca
2025-08-19 02:47:45

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?

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org
2025-08-19 18:06:53

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!?

‪@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2025-08-19 18:06:53

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!?

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2025-08-19 18:06:53

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!?

@al3x@hachyderm.io
2025-08-15 17:47:37

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 mstdn.social/@trentskunk/11503

@stsquad@mastodon.org.uk
2025-07-16 18:09:32

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

@publicvoit@graz.social
2025-06-08 08:52:26

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

Emacs results after updating my inbox.org from my various capture files via mobile-org features. It shows 207 new headings.
@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-07-30 21:34:57

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

@al3x@hachyderm.io
2025-08-15 18:17:44

#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
```

@stsquad@mastodon.org.uk
2025-08-10 17:03:55

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:

‪@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2025-08-14 14:14:33

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…

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org‬
2025-08-14 14:14:33

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…

@mxp@mastodon.acm.org
2025-08-14 14:14:33

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…

@nebucatnetzer@social.linux.pizza
2025-07-09 20:49:32

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

@publicvoit@graz.social
2025-07-06 09:22:14

#Emacs #UOMF: Linking Headings
karl-voit.at/2019/11/16/UOMF-L

@al3x@hachyderm.io
2025-05-27 07:56:32

Looks like the builds published by Emacs for macOS X, which is one of the easiest way to get #Emacs, don't have native compilation turned on.
I suspected this when I was seeing tons of errors with my built-from-source version.
As a side note, I could not get the first pretest of #Emacs 30.2 build the macOS version.

@publicvoit@graz.social
2025-07-27 13:58:20

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

@gpummer@t.testitfor.me
2025-07-04 17:54:06

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

@stsquad@mastodon.org.uk
2025-08-08 09:07:14

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…

@al3x@hachyderm.io
2025-05-30 18:31:55

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! protesilaos.com/emacs/denote

@al3x@hachyderm.io
2025-05-27 19:47:34

Wow… a ton of tweaks and tricks for #Emacs emacs.social/@emacsnews/114581

@al3x@hachyderm.io
2025-06-04 21:25:07

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

@al3x@hachyderm.io
2025-06-03 10:12:26

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

@stsquad@mastodon.org.uk
2025-07-13 11:32:46

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

@al3x@hachyderm.io
2025-05-26 21:04:04

How can you check if a version of #Emacs was compiler with native-compilation on?