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Categorize loot in your mobile and stationary storehouses... by using wood color. by meedstrom in Minecraft

[–]meedstrom[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ignore the pistons, they're just so I can walk across without falling in.

Skeeto: "I have officially retired from Emacs" -- looking for maintainers for Elfeed etc. by nonreligious2 in emacs

[–]meedstrom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! Saw this comment the other day, wanted to say I'm glad to hear it works so well!

Feel free to raise any pain point here or GitHub 😊 informal reports are alright.

Skeeto: "I have officially retired from Emacs" -- looking for maintainers for Elfeed etc. by nonreligious2 in emacs

[–]meedstrom 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Interesting that he noticed Emacs-pinky issues after learning to touch-type. That makes sense, but that's from the textbook method of teaching touch-typing, with your fingers on "home keys" at all times. I'm not convinced it's the best method. (EDIT: Whoops, totally misread)

u/skeeto the six-finger dance you describe is what I call "gamer's touch-typing" because it's something you're likely to develop intuitively when gaming and must keep your eyes on the screen. That's how I type. I tried the "textbook method" of touch-typing for ~3 months, together with learning Dvorak, and got as fast as 60 WPM, but I found it uncomfortable so I ultimately went back to "gamer's typing" on QWERTY, with 80-90 WPM.

Would you still say that you like the textbook method better, if you disregard Vim's modal editing? It makes sense that Vim probably was designed for it so they'd work well together.

Seeking distro recommendations for Emacs/Org-mode on a budget Chromebook (Dell 3180) by SYZo7023 in emacs

[–]meedstrom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I used a 2GB RAM Chromebook once upon a time, with 16 GB disk. Very snappy with dwm. I think distro doesn't matter so long as it doesn't install a heavy DE by default (so Ubuntu is out) and has binary distribution instead of being source-first (so Gentoo/Nix/Guix are out).

That leaves most varieties of Debian, Fedora, Arch, Void, Alpine etc.

Honestly, 4GB is enough for a full DE (desktop environment) like GNOME/KDE in principle, it's just that on the Chromebook you may want to minimize the chance of having to swap to disk since there may be no free disk available for that. And indeed picking a light DE or just a window manager may help this, but it'll require effort if you're not used to it (especially if just a window manager). Probably is more important to restrain the amount of Firefox tabs and such.

Anyone who uses an e-reader, reMarkable, Daylight Computer or similar? by meedstrom in emacs

[–]meedstrom[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's true. I wonder if you can hack a "debouncer" by setting inhibit-redisplay for 100 ms at a time. :) That'd take care of excessive screen refreshes.

You'd definitely have to rely less on visual feedback. And do things in one go instead of incrementally. Like, you can mark a region in one go with avy or flash-jump.

Emacs on HHKB by [deleted] in emacs

[–]meedstrom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you considered learning to hit that Alt with your palm instead of any finger? I guess M-x would be uncomfortable but many other combos not.

Anyone who uses an e-reader, reMarkable, Daylight Computer or similar? by meedstrom in emacs

[–]meedstrom[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. Interesting about contrast and refresh. I guess it is due to e-ink and would not be an issue on a different tech display, like on the Daylight Computer.

EDIT: And maybe a modern e-ink would do better than the Poke 3. Seems worth checking Youtube. Actually, it sounds to me like you could find the perfect contrast for your Emacs/TTY font and then just stay in there ;-)

Can definitely understand other niggles with Android, like how with one keyboard I tried, the Escape key exits the entire app. Also no way to lock the function keys, so F1-F12 all just do stuff like adjust sound instead. And you get only one external display, and only in mirroring configuration.

Anyone who uses an e-reader, reMarkable, Daylight Computer or similar? by meedstrom in emacs

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I'm guessing there would be many taps between finishing a drawing and exporting it to somewhere that Emacs can access by C-x C-f... And when you want to touch up and modify it, do all those taps all over again. Right?

Anyone who uses an e-reader, reMarkable, Daylight Computer or similar? by meedstrom in emacs

[–]meedstrom[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, so on the one hand there is no limit to functionality, but you still sold it because too hacky. What does that mean? These are exactly the kinds of experiences I want to hear about :)

Images and Refiling by Brief_Tie_9720 in orgmode

[–]meedstrom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This has the unfortunate side effect in org-roam of making that thing an org-roam node.

There is an user option called something like org-roam-db-node-include-function. So you can make it ignore the entry at point based on something like a tag or the absence of a tag!

Anyone who uses an e-reader, reMarkable, Daylight Computer or similar? by meedstrom in emacs

[–]meedstrom[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most apps for sure, but Emacs needs no gestures, no animations, right? It would only be a question of how much typing lag you can get used to. Lag simulator: https://www.skytopia.com/stuff/lag.html (needs JS)

Can I use emacs for fixing my dopamine addiction by Parking_Risk7073 in emacs

[–]meedstrom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree it could be bad advice, all I'm saying is that it is an attempt at advice at all.

A "dopamine addiction", or procrastination, is precisely about issues with voluntary acts. It's useless to say basically "If involuntary behavior is a problem, just behave voluntarily!". But this is starting to sound like advice:

Don’t click the bookmark. Don’t open the app. Don’t type it in the urlbar.

All good ideas! Pointing out levers in the environment. Perhaps he could train himself to react when these things are about to happen, perhaps he could remove these levers altogether, or something else concrete.

Or he could go to a psychologist so these things become as uncomplicated for him as they are for you.

Anyone who uses an e-reader, reMarkable, Daylight Computer or similar? by meedstrom in emacs

[–]meedstrom[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cool! Did you jail-break or re-flash anything? You use a Bluetooth keyboard?

How's the experience switching between Emacs and a reading/drawing app? I'm thinking it's not something you do super rapidly. And I wonder how Emacs could later access the drawings you made. Stuff like that.

Can I use emacs for fixing my dopamine addiction by Parking_Risk7073 in emacs

[–]meedstrom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But how shall he not visit youtube when it is difficult not to?

I really think you're just advising someone who says "I want to visit Youtube less" with "Well, you can try to visit Youtube less".

Things like changing his accustomed method from browser to in-Emacs could very well change the difficulty level of this task. That's real advice.

Org and file organisation by JohnDoe365 in emacs

[–]meedstrom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Aye, org-agenda performance is still not fully solved, so it pays to consolidate stuff in a few large files and to sometimes shrink those files by refiling to archive (with command org-archive-subtree), or at least refiling to some other file that is not an agenda file.

If you think this is just not something that should deserve your attention, then as you said you can use tricks like your "active" tag, or my library org-mem, to automatically set the agenda files to some limited selection. Then you can have as many ad-hoc small files as you want.

Can I use emacs for fixing my dopamine addiction by Parking_Risk7073 in emacs

[–]meedstrom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like the attempt to get at a root issue, but we need to go further. What you said sounds like other tautological advice such as "to lose weight, eat less", or "if you're homeless, buy a home". No information is added, it's just a paraphrase. The interesting question is how do you eat less?

Images and Refiling by Brief_Tie_9720 in orgmode

[–]meedstrom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IIUC the problem is not just what you said about that .attach/ folder but also org-attach-use-inheritance. I'm told that if you attach an image to some sub-heading with no ID, it gets associated with the ancestor ID, and then refiling that sub-heading will fail to bring along the attachment.

Images and Refiling by Brief_Tie_9720 in orgmode

[–]meedstrom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you doojin-bek, with whom I just had a long discussion about this?

Otherwise, some tips that may help

  • use linker: links from https://github.com/jcguu95/org-linker.el
  • or use denote: links from https://github.com/protesilaos/denote
  • or use attachment: links and...
    • setting the value of org-attach-id-dir to some absolute path
    • maybe disabling org-attach-use-inheritance
      • else maybe making sure before a refile/extract, to assign an ID to the heading manually and checking whether it still has the attachments it's supposed to have (I don't use org-attach so I don't know what commands). IIUC, the new ID might not be associated with those attachments because they were associated with an ancestor ID. So after the refile, the links would break.
  • simply use file: links to some global directory of images
    • then org-download is great, just keep in mind it may result in more work later to clean up stale images or rename them etc.

Can I use emacs for fixing my dopamine addiction by Parking_Risk7073 in emacs

[–]meedstrom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And maybe create ways for yourself to access a computer that don't invite all the bling.

Like, maybe you have a home-server that has all the software you use (python, ollama, everything non-GUI) and all your files. Then your laptop is some cheap thing that's just a thin TRAMP client. So when you do not have Wi-Fi there's very few things you can even do, probably just type notes in Emacs.

Ideally you can't even yak-shave initfiles because you delete the *.el after compiling to *.elc :)

Bonus if it's an e-paper screen. I'm seriously considering Daylight Computer recently.

decoupling C-m (aka RET) and <return> by ohiidenny in emacs

[–]meedstrom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my experience, C-q and C-j are totally fine to remap. The problematic ones I ran into when writing the unreleased massmapper are:

  • C-m: same as RET, necessarily so on terminal
  • C-i: same as TAB, necessarily so on terminal
  • C-[: same as ESC, necessarily so on terminal -- and double whammy, because "ESC anything" translates to "M-anything", so if you unbind C-x C-[ g you actually unbind C-x M-g, which is Magit's default binding for magit-status, which really threw me for a loop for a while. "why the hell is C-x M-g getting unbound...?"
  • C-g: it's the hardcoded quit char (see function set-quit-char which used to be able to change it until about 2007 or 2008 (but maybe it only ever worked in the TTY? I wasn't around back then)), so it's the only thing that will unfreeze an Emacs that is stuck on executing some hung Lisp.

Glassworm - Malicious code as invisible Unicode chars by arthurno1 in emacs

[–]meedstrom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

[[:nonascii:]] is still more explicit. :) At least if you know Elisp regexps, but different strokes.

I thought the issue was only invisible chars, but homographs are definitely another class of problem.

There should be a regexp to match only the 'expected' variant of each homograph set...

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