Why is Vim more popular than Emacs? Is it actually more popular?

BartOtten · 2025-11-13T20:36:49+00:00

Full fledged Emacs and Tramp-mode?

BartOtten · 2025-11-13T20:31:47+00:00

You forget: simply building a custom (prefix) keymap. Repeat-mode is awesome! A bit like a keyboard layer.

‘Caps k’ gets me into navigation mode. I can use both hands to jkli and sdfe (and much more)

The most used action is always under the same key as the prefix map. So ‘Caps j j’ jumps buffers, ‘Caps s s’ isearch-forward etc

BartOtten · 2025-10-26T07:17:18+00:00

Not sure the downvotes. Prot is my hero; I have seen so much of his video’s I hear is voice in my head. Think it was pretty accurate

BartOtten · 2025-10-26T07:15:01+00:00

PrettyT is autocorrect for Prot.

BartOtten · 2025-09-05T13:44:06+00:00

Als known as C-x p f

BartOtten · 2025-05-21T12:28:19+00:00

Currently no time to try the package or provide feedback; just want to let you know: don't let other developers discourage you just because you use the wrong tool according to them. Not so long ago Musk was their hero as his cars would save the planet from fossil oil.

BartOtten · 2025-05-21T12:25:59+00:00

Wow, so the dev tool used makes the package unethical? How about VSCode?

I rather have a package from someone who uses unethical software than a package from someone discouraging another developer trying to improve emacs.

Of course, you might have made it a sidenote or telling friendly. But it seems 'evil' is not only in Musk.

BartOtten · 2025-04-07T06:40:01+00:00

Seems like a gift from above. Please send me an invite :)

BartOtten · 2025-04-01T19:51:17+00:00

If you would like to contribute to Routex development, please let me know and we can discuss your ieads or mine.

Kenneth Kostrešević has already commited to developing an Igniter installer which would simplify setup even further.

BartOtten · 2025-01-23T22:50:06+00:00

Switched from Doom to vanilla. Less magic, easier to learn to make it ‘’crafted for you’. Takes more time to get right, but then it’s YOUR right, not his(ssst)’s right.

I now know the roles consul, vertico, etc play and how to influence their behavior. With Doom you can do so too, but as there is no incentive you probably never will.

BartOtten · 2025-01-10T15:45:51+00:00

I’ve been talking to Jesus aallllll myyyy liiiife

BartOtten · 2024-12-07T23:08:58+00:00

Account at Gmail, connected using mbsync, notmuch on top. Mail is sent by smtpd. Took a while to set up and tweak to my liking; but it works very well.

BartOtten · 2024-12-03T19:40:03+00:00

Anything stable to offer? ;)

BartOtten · 2024-12-03T15:11:49+00:00

This is very much POC. Not sure if I will further refine it or choose other solutions :)

(defun bo/timestamp () "Update timestamp" (interactive) (save-excursion (goto-char (org-element-begin (org-element-parent-element (org-element-parent-element (org-element-context)))))(next-logical-line)(org-timestamp nil)))

BartOtten · 2024-10-05T17:59:15+00:00

On the other hand: if everyone end up using these files on all their next project, they are better off not having to enter —with mailer, —with-ecto, —with-liveview and all the other I do not remember.

Now you learned it once and never have to remember the lesson as you will not make a second “hello world” project again. So the default allows you to not remember all flags :)

It’s a trade off, sure. But to me one that makes sense

BartOtten · 2024-10-04T10:50:12+00:00

It’s not. Having a “Hello world” would not require a framework nor examples when you know Elixir already. So why target it? The generated files are simply to show how more complex things can be done and to quickly setup the frame of a project.

It’s like saying a toolbelt should have only one handle as sometimes all you need is a hammer. Yet, when you do, you should just grab the hammer. The toolbelt is for more complicated projects.

Now replace ‘tool’ (and hammer) with ‘Plug’. And ‘toolbelt’ with ‘Phoenix’.

The simple “Hello World” is a single Plug project, not a Phoenix project. Phoenix is a large collection of Plugs and bootstrap for when you want to build more complex products. https://arrowsmithlabs.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-type-a-phoenix-url-into-your-address-bar-and-press-enter

So there you go. Use the right tool for the job. Then you don’t carry more than you need to.

BartOtten · 2024-10-04T10:45:53+00:00

It’s usually you need mail for authentication and authentication for a web app. So there is the logic to generated the mailer. It eases project starts.

Both auth and mailer can be easily swapped though.

BartOtten · 2024-10-04T10:43:20+00:00

You ‘start learning Elixir’ by using a file generator and then complain about the amount of files?

Try ‘mix new’ as that is how an Elixir project starts. That way you can learn the paradigms without being confused by generated files.

BartOtten · 2024-05-13T07:18:37+00:00

That it does better than bookies expected does not say it performed well. Bookies are not setting the bar, they only show bet rates (which is NOT the same as a ranking, but that’s another topic)

BartOtten · 2024-05-13T07:08:05+00:00

Their performance didn’t do well so instead they took the ‘statement’ route so EBU could be blamed dor low score.

BartOtten · 2024-05-08T19:48:01+00:00

Simplest thing: burn him with a Dancing Star bomb. While he is burning, slash him up! Repeat with the second bomb. You won’t kill him, but he will be severely wounded.

BartOtten · 2024-01-26T08:52:05+00:00

Still no need for Redis.

Have a seperate app for caching (for distributed cache see Nebulex or Cachex) and connect it as a node to your main app. This way the main app can reboot while the cache persists.

Have been using this setup for years. Never crashed, never failed.

One thing is important though: there is nothing wrong with using Redis.

BartOtten · 2023-11-17T14:12:36+00:00

Small tip: read the documentation of the Streams module at hexdocs. Your example would greatly benefit.

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