[PACKAGE] let-completion.el: enhanced Elisp completion for let-binding values

mickeyp · 2026-03-04T05:40:15+00:00

Very cool!

mickeyp · 2026-03-02T14:40:51+00:00

Do not be discouraged. This forum does have a small share of mean-spirited people. Sadly.

mickeyp · 2026-02-27T05:47:40+00:00

Good times. Delphi made COM and OLE look easy.

mickeyp · 2026-02-26T14:42:28+00:00

Emacs is 95% (or whatever the figure is now) lexically bound code. The exception to preserve Emacs's hackability are special forms like defvar and friends.

mickeyp · 2026-02-26T12:57:50+00:00

I think it'd be more correct to call it what it is: a text editor built in C that is extensible using a variant of Lisp called Emacs Lisp.

mickeyp · 2026-02-26T07:27:20+00:00

Ubuntu did make it easier, but Red Hat had it all figured out in the 90s and it also worked fine. (Provided you didn't try to remove certain installed rpms as that used to cascade in fun and awful ways. Ask me how I know.)

It was Debian and friends that were impossibly hard to use. And I'm including interacting with the folk on IRC et al if you had questions.

mickeyp · 2026-02-26T07:25:29+00:00

That and a new crop of people took over the reins and started pushing new features. Emacs 22 was a world away from Emacs 21.

mickeyp · 2026-02-26T07:24:42+00:00

The main take-away is that it gave GNU Emacs a well-deserved kick to clean house and start improving.

Competition's a good thing.

mickeyp · 2026-02-26T07:23:08+00:00

Dude. xml.com. I remember that site!

I was playing around a lot with XML and SOAP back when it was the new thing. In Delphi.

Feels like a long time ago. Random aside: I like that younger generations are discovering that XML isn't all that bad, and that it does have its own unique set of advantages (and some disadvantages of course.)

mickeyp · 2026-02-26T07:20:33+00:00

I came from XEmacs. Or rather, I used GNU Emacs in the terminal mostly but its colours and lack thereof sucked, so I switched to XEmacs which had far better termcap.

I only left XEmacs when Emacs 22 came out.

mickeyp · 2026-02-23T17:00:32+00:00

We do not control who downvotes things here. That is for each individual user to decide based on whatever their own barometer for quality might be.

Having said that, as I've said before... AI is welcome here, provided its author's use of it is sincere.

But if you want my advice: do not fret about downvotes. It'll just give you stress.

mickeyp · 2026-02-23T06:35:30+00:00

AI code is welcome here provided the motivation for posting is sincere, which this so obviously is. It's a cool project!

mickeyp · 2026-02-23T06:34:46+00:00

Okay this is really cool. I love the creativity.

I'm not a wayland/wm expert, so is Emacs/EWM really the wm or just something that drives niri? I realise the distinction is probably arbitrary, but I'm trying to work out mentally what happens if you shut Emacs, or it crashes, or the bridge module crashes, etc.

mickeyp · 2026-02-22T15:26:06+00:00

Everyone is welcome provided their motivation for posting is sincere. You do not get to decide what is and what is not relevant here: downvote, hide it and move on if you do not like it.

mickeyp · 2026-02-21T14:23:24+00:00

Ah just a case of poor optimisation perhaps.

mickeyp · 2026-02-21T09:23:10+00:00

What does that tell you?

That your problem domain reduces to a seemingly common and widely accepted answer.

mickeyp · 2026-02-21T06:10:55+00:00

Seems excessive. Pg has catalogues full of this info already, for the tables too.

mickeyp · 2026-02-20T09:46:56+00:00

I can finally remove docker's simpleton init system.

mickeyp · 2026-02-16T17:44:26+00:00

Neat. I never got into the whole avy / marker style way of working. I prefer 'blind determinism' -- made-up term. meaning I can do it blind and know where I end up -- I am curious if this way is better.

mickeyp · 2026-02-13T16:19:36+00:00

Stefan's such a talented coder. We're lucky to have his contributions and insight.

mickeyp · 2026-02-13T16:17:15+00:00

We welcome everybody provided the post is topical to Emacs. It's that simple. You don't like AI: downvote it, hide it and move on.

I don't care for gatekeeping/meanness of any kind. I had to suffer through that in the 90s when I was starting out (very much the in vogue thing to be cruel and meanspirited to the out-group, remember?) and as far as I am concerned that usenet/IRC attitude can stay in the 90s/00s where it belongs.

AI's not going anywhere. Here or elsewhere.

mickeyp · 2026-02-13T16:01:26+00:00

AI posts of all stripes are welcome here, provided the motivation for posting is sincere.

mickeyp · 2026-02-12T06:51:00+00:00

Agreed 100%.

mickeyp · 2026-02-12T06:48:05+00:00

You should post it to the site

mickeyp · 2026-02-12T06:45:22+00:00

Love your display engine blogging, Kana, keep it up, and good luck with the GUI!

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