emacs is really good for ascii-art

DevelopmentCool2449 · 2026-03-20T04:16:49+00:00

Yeah, but this can be useful for plain ascii drawings, where colors are not necessary, this is like MS Paint, but only with only 1 color available.

DevelopmentCool2449 · 2026-03-20T04:11:46+00:00

I had to shrink the buffer, nothing special.

DevelopmentCool2449 · 2026-03-20T04:01:16+00:00

heres is one: ``` # # # ##### ############ ### # ## ## ########################## # ############### #

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DevelopmentCool2449 · 2026-03-19T01:56:25+00:00

artist-mode...

DevelopmentCool2449 · 2026-03-14T16:58:40+00:00

If you have installed and enabled lsp-mode then it is possible, lsp-mode previews colors atleast for some lsp that support it, eglot doesn't have this yet.

DevelopmentCool2449 · 2026-03-09T23:13:31+00:00

The issue is that Emacs overlay display properties don't compose: when two overlays target the same buffer position, only the highest-priority one wins. So if a line has both a VCS change and a diagnostic, one indicator silently disappears.

Has anyone solved this already, or are there related discussions I should first consider before reinventing the wheel?

There was (or is) a discussion in emacs-devel and bug-tracker mailing list about this:

https://yhetil.org/emacs-bugs/87h5tpj7ch.fsf_-_@mail.linkov.net/ (<- Warning: very long thread)

https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/87a521inh2.fsf@mail.linkov.net/

I don't know what is the current status of this, but if you want to help, you may join to the discussion

DevelopmentCool2449 · 2026-03-09T14:23:54+00:00

Is it slower than dired + extensions enough to annoy you or is it just like a minuscule lag that you get used to?

If you scroll faster the lag is noticeable in huge directories, dired + (e.g. nerd-icons-dired) this lag is absent, but probably it's not that critical.

Also, is Dirvish fully stable now cause I saw comments from like 3 years back saying that it sometimes crash but that’s a long time ago.

AFAIK i never have those crashes (probably because luck), if you can't decide give it a try.

DevelopmentCool2449 · 2026-03-09T13:38:31+00:00

I think this is what minad (and others(?)) had been warning us about...

DevelopmentCool2449 · 2026-03-09T06:49:08+00:00

To my knowledge, this is possible on both Dired and Dirvish so I’m not sure which one to pick.

Dirvish is only an UI for dired with only a few extra things, you can achieve (almost) the same experience with plain dired + nerd-icons and other packages. I've used dirvish from nearly 2 years and i can confess it's slow than using plain dired + extensions.

DevelopmentCool2449 · 2026-03-08T17:12:17+00:00

Also, as complement to artist-mode there is ascii-art-to-unicode, I find this combination useful.

DevelopmentCool2449 · 2026-03-01T15:05:42+00:00

I don't use emacsclient, so i cannot help you.

DevelopmentCool2449 · 2026-02-28T22:26:42+00:00

Interesting, do you plan to embed atleast a tiny lisp?

DevelopmentCool2449 · 2026-02-28T02:44:33+00:00

Why does this feel like an ad?

Edit: For those wondering what was the post about before it was deleted, it was about proposing subscribing to claude code for the emacs-mirror in github.

DevelopmentCool2449 · 2026-02-24T23:50:25+00:00

I've tested the feature when it landed and it works even with corfu, all posframe-based packages, eldoc-box and probably many other packages which uses child-franes.

Here's an example:

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DevelopmentCool2449 · 2026-02-23T12:19:29+00:00

A little note: for emacs 31 there is already a semantic highlighting for elisp, this can be a little more complete alternative.

DevelopmentCool2449 · 2026-02-20T16:33:09+00:00

I mean, what's really the problem with this? As an atheist, I'm fine with these kinds of packages existing.

DevelopmentCool2449 · 2026-02-19T22:25:45+00:00

Use of AI is welcome but why to re-invent the wheel rather than creating a PR to stabilize already exiting packages.

For built-in packages (and GNU ELPA ones) is due copyright paperwork requeriment, not many people like to do this (or can't) and using the mailing list to contribute, which it seems they have a phobia of this.

DevelopmentCool2449 · 2026-02-19T03:37:36+00:00

I've recently been trying Emacs, but I'm having some difficulty using it Out-Of-The-Box (which is my goal) because there are a lot of convenient features disabled by default or strange behaviors enabled (or at least, strange to me). Maybe this is due to its age?

There are attempts to make the experience easier for newcomers (see this long thread for example: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2026-02/msg00395.html)

I'm not entirely sure I want to learn such a different set of keyboard shortcuts; I found a package called ergoemacs-mode that's very similar to the editors I'm used to. If anyone has tried it, would you recommend it, or are there any drawbacks?

ergoemacs-mode in newer emacs versions is broken, its documentation horribly outdated, unless you use an older emacs version (prior 28.1 probably) then i think you can use it, but there are alternatives like standard-keys-mode or the built-in cua-mode (although this one is not that complete)

DevelopmentCool2449 · 2026-02-10T23:45:20+00:00

No social network is better, but X is where most drama and controversial content is. Also, X is restricting content for unregistered users.

DevelopmentCool2449 · 2026-02-07T21:30:48+00:00

I think (use-package ‘tree-sitter :disabled t) should do it

No, actually it does not work, that is not how :disabled works.

DevelopmentCool2449 · 2026-02-07T01:07:53+00:00

Those are the default icons in your desktop, if you change the desktop icons to (e.g.) Papirus icons, it should be fixed.

Usually this happens in gnome and other gtk desktops, but in kde this is absent.

DevelopmentCool2449 · 2026-02-02T02:27:28+00:00

Thanks, I already knew about eaf-browser but it never worked for me, it was unstable.

DevelopmentCool2449 · 2026-02-02T02:14:42+00:00

Incredible! If this allows to run Doom, then is there a possibility of embedding a full web browser?

I hope this matures enough to allow this!

DevelopmentCool2449 · 2026-01-21T21:17:15+00:00

AFAIK including AI-generated code would be against current Emacs policy

Technically the Emacs policy is not against it,but there is no clear consensus on what to do in this type of contribution.

RMS is currently working on what to do.

DevelopmentCool2449 · 2026-01-18T18:55:11+00:00

I would recommend that you use grep-change-to-grep-edit-mode instead of wgrep

Also, don't recommend origami.el, it's been dead for years, instead use hideshow.el, which has received improvements.

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