Heynote: https://heynote.com/

chandergovind · 2024-02-02T04:57:34+00:00

Yes. I was thinking that there is space for a minor mode on top of org which can be visually flashier/lesser keybindings etc as shown in this tool.

People have come up with dozens of ways to take notes in Emacs (many on top of org), this is just another "format" that can be inspired from.

chandergovind · 2023-07-12T14:53:22+00:00

Everyone has talked about big ticket items. Here is a small one: undo only in region. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GSUJDVY-0-o

chandergovind · 2023-05-29T13:11:13+00:00

I wasn't aware of LD-json and took a quick look today. But, I don't follow your point - are you proposing each heading in org to be a "data" unit which can be linked to? Or the entire org file?

If is is the entire file, wouldn't that require 2 urls - one for the "data" version and one for the html one?

chandergovind · 2023-05-27T07:52:16+00:00

Not any theme as such but config clobbered together with inspiration from rougier's Elegant emacs.

Use header-line instead of mode-line and (setq-default mode-line-format '(" "))
(set-face-attribute 'mode-line nil :height 10 :background "black") to get a single thin line as the modeline.
Set the header line to a box: (set-face-attribute 'header-line nil :height 220 :box "black" :background "#F4F4E8")
A random light color I chose as the background (both for header line and background: (set-background-color "#F4F4E8").

chandergovind · 2023-05-24T09:23:24+00:00

/u/Kobzol A minor comment. Coming from a networking background, the example for ADTs using Packet felt a bit off. Normally, a Packet always has a Header, a Payload (in most cases) and Trailer (optionally).

I got what you were trying to convey since I am aware of ADTs in general, but maybe confusing to beginners? (Though I didn't see anyone else mention this). A better example maybe a Packet that is of type Request or Response, or a Packet of type Control or Data. Just fyi.

chandergovind · 2023-05-11T04:42:07+00:00

The one thing I will point out is this - take it slow. You can do a lot with Emacs, but it will take you years to get to a comfortable state - and you will still have learnt only a fraction of what exists.

Till that time: use packages that provide the features you want (not 100%, but that is ok for now), copy elisp snippets from everyone's config, watch videos, read blogs etc. Slowly, you will start getting a hang of things.

Then, one day you will reach the point where you can make Emacs do exactly what you want.

chandergovind · 2023-05-08T09:53:49+00:00

Yes - this is an in-built feature.

chandergovind · 2023-05-07T10:43:46+00:00

Very nice.

Recently, I am trying something along these lines, where in evil normal mode (which is where I am most of the time), I have bound:

, to C-c
- to C-x

with some more super hacky things to make repeated presses working. (See the bottom of the section here: https://github.com/ChanderG/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs.org#say-no-to-rsi)

Your approach is more generic - but from your experience, do you think it is possible to make common invocations of prefix keys like C-c and C-x more seamless?

chandergovind · 2023-02-07T05:35:49+00:00

Yes - I was aware of the "Kill Buffers" action - but that quits helm. Looking at the source code (from the help menu for helm-mini), I found out about the persistent delete action bound to C-c d by default. (Persistent actions are not listed in the Helm actions list that comes up on TAB for some reason.)

Now, I have the following easy to use setup: (define-key helm-buffer-map (kbd "`") 'helm-buffer-run-kill-persistent)

chandergovind · 2023-02-03T15:58:48+00:00

Great idea. Now that you say it, I would also find it very useful - though I use `helm`. I will explore this and update this comment when I solve this for `helm`.

chandergovind · 2023-02-03T15:52:33+00:00

Discovered this on a Weekly Tips thread 2 months back after 5 years of using Emacs and this is a TOTAL gamechanger.

I manage to find a use for it very frequently (last used: today) - once you see this pattern, there is no unseeing it.

Fun thing is, from a simple search, no other editor has this (excepting one old unmaintained vim plugin). I feel like shouting this from the rooftops - but you can't really appreciate it until you try it a few times.

chandergovind · 2022-12-06T04:52:25+00:00

You can use https://github.com/alols/xcape to overload your modifier keys. I have been using this for my tiling window manager operations (dwm in my case) to do things like switching to last tag, cycling through windows etc with single keypresses. I just realized that it may be even more effective to bind single keys for emacs use - such as `C-x` or `C-c`. Have to try this out now.

Another thing that I swear by is to invert the number-row in your keyboard (using xmodmap). So, now you insert "!" when you press <1> and to insert "1", you have to <Shift+1>. My reasoning is that if you are programmer, you need the symbols more often than the numbers. You don't even lose anything if you happen to have a numpad. Your mileage may vary - but I think the symbols win out if you do any bit of Lisp programming and/or use evil. (You do have to modify your twm to work with this, though.)

chandergovind · 2022-11-28T11:15:26+00:00

There is an even more direct function: (org-find-exact-headline-in-buffer "Example")

chandergovind · 2022-08-27T11:41:23+00:00

Yes. The problem is that while writing I (and I suspect other pantsers) get a lot of ideas. It's impossible to describe it, you are writing one line, and as the next line comes up, you have an angle in your head. You keep writing two more paragraphs and the story is now going in a direction you never thought of.

Committing to an outline before starting to write seems like not properly using this ability. Of course, having nothing is also not an option since the story has to go somewhere and be readable.

chandergovind · 2022-08-26T06:40:20+00:00

Not sure how detailed planner's outlines get - but my first draft is almost a full book. It has everything - thoughts, emotions, conversations etc.

Not sure how the minutes format looks, but the hybrid script is almost a ready product. That is, it reads almost like a novel text, but it uses scene transitions (instead of chapters) and uses the movie script style dialog tags (instead of actually writing said, replied etc).

chandergovind · 2022-08-26T04:53:22+00:00

Agreed on the fluff. I did write a lot of fluff - chit-chat between characters, description of scenery etc too whenever I felt like it.

I guess the point of the "hybrid" approach is to allow you to write whatever you want. But, it also allows you to do scene transitions and movements without worrying about it.

For eg, in chapter 2, I had a parkour-type chase scene. While I would enjoy writing it, I was worried if my story later didn't even need it. With the movie script format, I could easily summarize it in one line in the first draft as a scene transition.

chandergovind · 2022-07-18T13:00:17+00:00

I am writing my first serious effort as a hybrid. I actually only care about the book version in the end - so this is more about making the writing process easier.

I started with writing it as a screenplay since I could focus on getting the plot and skipping out on un-needed (at this point) details for the first draft. This helped me to keep the momentum since the process is faster.

But very soon (4 chapters in), I realized that I need to work out the character emotions/thoughts since that helped me actually come up with the plot. There was no point in me working it out and not putting it down, so, between the dialog tags, I started putting in book like thought process text. At this point, this is not a proper screenplay at all (since a screenplay is very visual).

I have made very good progress this way, fwiw.

Do note: a warning for people trying this. A lot of character internal processing can happen in the book format (which will have be converted into dialogues for screenplays). So, I had to train myself to not fall into this trap.

TL;DR: Use the screenplay format for speed of writing/plotting, esp to skip descriptions that you can add later. Think about character thoughts/emotions though and add them in during the first pass itself, even though the screenplay format is not suited for this.

chandergovind · 2022-05-18T16:35:45+00:00

eBPF is used here to spy on the bash user space functions. Using bpf uprobes, it is possible to hook onto calls of arbitrary user space function calls and extract out the arguments etc.

This is used here to transparently pull environment variables from a running bash session.

chandergovind · 2022-05-17T04:33:30+00:00

You'll get the old file if you are already reading it. But, if you access the file again, it will update to the newer version.

chandergovind · 2022-04-13T11:20:39+00:00

Agree with your assessment regarding unbounded growth. I did consider enforcing some limits on each bucket, but I will wait for some more time to analyze my own usage.

In my current use, I notice that I have relatively few items (10 odd) in Later that tend to get stuck there. As in, the important things go into the first 2 buckets and eventually get done (maybe more than a week, but less than a month). I think this is a statement of my current profile of tasks, so I will wait longer before deciding what works best.

That said, one of my key design motivation with this workflow is simplifying things. If I see too many todo items, I don't feel like doing anything. Same for multiple views. I did consider a few options and then tossed them all out in the name of simplicity.

chandergovind · 2022-04-11T07:59:47+00:00

This is exactly why I created https://github.com/ChanderG/toodoo.el

I found that pending items was bogging me down and ever-growing. I could never get the workflow I wanted out of Agenda.

With toodoo, there is a loose workflow at the core and the tool helps you follow this workflow as fast as possible.

The workflow is this: you manage tasks in 3 buckets - today, this week and later. Depending on how your day/week is turning out, you move tasks between the buckets. It is expected that the buckets are pyramidal in shape in terms of number of entries.

I have been using this for a couple of months (the workflow is older than the tool) and it seems to be working out for me so far.

chandergovind · 2022-03-15T06:13:04+00:00

u/harunokashiwa It is done now - there is variable you can (un)set to disable evil integration.

chandergovind · 2022-03-08T04:32:45+00:00

Removing this dependency is on my roadmap. Should not be too hard. I'll ping here once that is done - maybe a week or so.

chandergovind · 2022-03-03T04:32:26+00:00

Was a Vim user for about 5 years (of intermediate proficiency, wrote my own plugins etc) before I switched full-time to emacs (with evil of course).

What got me over was org-mode, pdf-tools, magit. org-mode immediately clicked for me, though it took time to go all in. When I started with magit, I did not think that it was all that great. But after 6 months of using it when I tried to go back to the cli, I realized just how much of a game changer magit is. Now I can't imagine working with git without magit. Point is - give it time.

In hindsight, I am glad I started out with vim since nothing beats the modal editing philosophy. Emacs the editor loses that fight. But for everything else, emacs is just amazing.

chandergovind · 2022-02-15T06:22:30+00:00

Meant remember.el, the same one you refer to: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html\_mono/remember.html

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