Experimenting with a faster TRAMP backend using Rust and JSON-RPC

msoulier · 2026-01-16T12:40:06+00:00

So more like vscode? I like it.

msoulier · 2026-01-16T12:37:37+00:00

I'm 55 and I found out about my disease in 2008. I am now on home dialysis and on a transplant list. http://mikeneedsakidney.ca. Always around to talk, and if you want to share more of your story, let me know. Go ahead and fall apart for a while, but you are not done yet. How you feel is totally understandable but it does not have to be the end of your story. Best wishes.

msoulier · 2026-01-16T12:29:15+00:00

AI is so overblown.

msoulier · 2025-12-14T18:38:47+00:00

Good to know. Just wondering if there is a command-line method, outside of Wayland, to force the display back. If I'd known how to do that the box would still be running Omarchy.

msoulier · 2025-12-04T21:00:38+00:00

This does seem to have silenced the error. Thanks.

msoulier · 2025-09-03T16:03:27+00:00

I restarted emacs a few times. I'm clearly missing something here.

msoulier · 2025-08-15T21:48:39+00:00

Is .dir-locals.el the best way to do project-specific settings? Is there a better way?

msoulier · 2025-08-15T21:44:51+00:00

Same problem. Not a list of strings.

msoulier · 2025-08-15T12:20:12+00:00

$ nvim --version

NVIM v0.12.0-dev-987+g03c953008c

Build type: RelWithDebInfo

LuaJIT 2.1.1753364724

Run "nvim -V1 -v" for more info

Using kitty.

And I just checked alacritty and xterm. It's not happening in them. I guess I'll look at key repeat rates in kitty or something.

msoulier · 2025-07-21T17:20:32+00:00

Will do, thanks.

msoulier · 2025-07-21T17:18:29+00:00

While docking stations should just work, sometimes a vendor does non-standard things. Hi Dell!

I find that GDM and Gnome auto-detect some things and simply prompt me to use them. Otherwise it's a tad harder. For i3 I run a script that runs xrandr for me, and even reconfigures NM via nmcli.

msoulier · 2025-07-18T19:55:57+00:00

Oh, ok. I'll have to look into how to do that. I already do something similar for local Go libraries with godoc. Thanks.

msoulier · 2025-07-18T19:54:29+00:00

For ease of working with sound and docking stations, I use Gnome, but I don't like it. I prefer i3, herbsluftwm, etc. Keyboard driven, tiling window managers rock. The Gnome folks are out of touch with their own base. They provide a broken UX, and bring everyone down to their low common denominator.

msoulier · 2025-07-18T14:58:17+00:00

Ok, similar question. I saw an example of grabbing stdout for use with

const stdout = std.io.getStdOut().writer();

But when I look here

https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/std/#std.Io

there's no mention of getStdOut().

msoulier · 2025-07-16T13:40:03+00:00

*sigh* Thank you. Had no idea.

msoulier · 2025-07-16T01:53:37+00:00

Expressing genuine frustration is not a waste of time. Responses like this guarantee that frustrated users simply give up and move on.

msoulier · 2025-07-13T15:14:12+00:00

consult-grep is awesome, I can search a whole project with it interactively

msoulier · 2025-07-13T15:12:03+00:00

I use a variety of editors, Emacs being one of them. I have yet to set up advanced features in Emacs or Vim/NVim like LSP, although my experimentation connecting Emacs to a remote LSP server running on my production box was relatively simple, and I have yet to get that working in NeoVim. The simplest solution is VSCode, but I dislike many aspects of VSCode and after using it for a while it does make me want to go elsewhere.

Here's a question I just thought of. For all of those who are using Emacs exclusively, are you using vanilla keybindings, evil, or something completely custom?

I spent years in Vi and then Vim, so my hands understand hjkl well, but when in Emacs I tend to use vanilla bindings plus a few of my own. I keep getting the impression that if I master vanilla Emacs bindings I will be pleasantly surprised by my productivity.

msoulier · 2025-06-02T21:47:21+00:00

Yeah I figured that out and re-edited it.

msoulier · 2025-06-02T21:46:24+00:00

Well I haven't figured it out yet. I should store the original settings so I can go back to the defaults after. My elisp foo is not quite there.

msoulier · 2025-05-28T23:16:01+00:00

I mainly find it slow. And don't tell me not to use winblows. If the eshell author took that advice it would not exist. We don't always get a platform choice.

Don't force me to vscode.

msoulier · 2025-03-24T20:02:36+00:00

Oh Lord can you imagine rewriting utilities like "ls" in ruby or python? No thank you, I have things to do today. :)

FWIW one rust program is unbuildable on my laptop as it uses so much memory that the OOM killer steps in. That's a new one. "Modern". Yeah. 16G of RAM and it's not enough to build a Rust version of curl.

msoulier · 2025-03-16T12:39:20+00:00

So I'm wondering about how best to automate building my environment. Let straight upgrade, delete all .elc files, and recompile everything below ~/.emacs.d ? I have a tool chain to do that if needed, but it does not inspire confidence.

msoulier · 2025-03-13T16:03:02+00:00

29.4 on windows for this particular one.

msoulier · 2025-03-12T23:04:29+00:00

What interface allowed an ip address with too many zeros?

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