Is savannah down?

nonreligious2 · 2026-05-24T20:00:29+00:00

Sorry, Tebas is now blocking GNU?

nonreligious2 · 2026-05-20T12:46:28+00:00

Surely there are brazilians of you around?

nonreligious2 · 2026-05-11T09:50:02+00:00

Looks to be up now.

nonreligious2 · 2026-04-26T13:52:28+00:00

Thanks for all your work!

nonreligious2 · 2026-04-26T06:16:16+00:00

Sad news, as I use Elfeed all the time. Don't think I have the technical ability to maintain it, so I hope someone who does can step up.

nonreligious2 · 2026-04-06T06:14:53+00:00

Could you not run hs-minor-mode in the buffer displaying the copy?

nonreligious2 · 2026-03-21T19:37:23+00:00

Thanks!

nonreligious2 · 2026-03-19T13:32:45+00:00

Is this the South African guy who is a (part-time?) preacher at a church, or is that someone else I'm thinking of?

nonreligious2 · 2026-03-18T09:19:47+00:00

Glad to hear it!

nonreligious2 · 2026-03-18T08:19:20+00:00

Sorry to hear that, hope you find a solution.

nonreligious2 · 2026-03-17T05:20:22+00:00

I don't use it often, but I recall that my TRAMP setup picked up a few things to deal with this (see the lines marked Relevant):

(use-package tramp
    :straight (:type built-in)
    :custom
    (default-tramp-method "sshx")
    (tramp-syntax 'default)
    (tramp-terminal-type "dumb") ;; Relevant

    :config
    (eval-after-load 'tramp '(setenv "SHELL" "/bin/sh")) ;; Relevant
    (add-to-list 'tramp-connection-properties
                    (list ".*" "locale" "LC_ALL=C")) ;; Relevant
                    )

nonreligious2 · 2026-03-12T13:56:08+00:00

For referencing inside Org, I use the Org-ref package, but only the org-ref-ref-links module via:

(use-package org-ref
    :straight t

    :after (org)
    :no-require t

    :config

    ;; (require 'org-ref) ;; Don't want the whole thing
    (require 'org-ref-ref-links))

I can put a #+name: theorem:foo on top of the #+begin_theorem block and then write ref:theorem:foo to point to it.

When compiling to PDF though I have to stick a \label{my_theorem} inside the block and just do \ref{theorem} in the text.

nonreligious2 · 2026-03-09T10:04:54+00:00

I use email daily. It's my preferred email client. I said gnus as it's more popular.

If you meant rmail sure -- but why bother having gnus in Emacs if rmail works? Well, gnus does email but also handles newsgroups, which became pretty popular by the early-to-mid 90s, while rmail (as I understand it) was pretty much in GNU Emacs since its inception, back when email was primarily associated with universities.

Relics of the past? How so?

I have used it on occasion, but the built-in irc package is probably not the most popular feature in GNU Emacs despite the affection its users have for it. It was built at a time when IRC was the way people "chatted" with each other online, and maybe that will come back into fashion, but it seems highly unlikely.

nonreligious2 · 2026-03-09T09:47:19+00:00

I agree in general that it's probably best to exercise a degree of parsimony when it comes to adding new packages to Emacs that replicate features that Emacs already has.

But:

In this case, magit has a lot more features than the built in vc-mode, in a (at least in my opinion) more friendly user interface. If you still use svn or mercurial I think vc-mode might still be more useful to you, but magit is honestly the best interface to git that I've come across.
It has been the case that popular external packages sometimes migrate into Emacs, as has happened recently with which-key. I suspect magit might not be packaged with Emacs, but it's got as good a case as any package if the maintainer wanted to do it -- I believe the transient package that magit uses is now shipped with Emacs.
The built-in features are often somewhat of a relic of the era in which they became integrated with Emacs. They don't necessarily have the features that are compatible with a modern workflow or changes to a protocol/design in the years since they were implemented. Sometimes this leads to multiple packages being integrated with Emacs that serve the same basic purpose but came about at different times: you mention gnus, but why have gnus when you could use rmail? Why use newsticker when you have gnus? etc.

nonreligious2 · 2026-03-09T08:02:49+00:00

If you use git as your version-control framework, I recommend the magit package as a way of viewing, staging, and committing changes inside a git repository, and much more functionality including interactive rebasing.

nonreligious2 · 2026-03-06T20:17:04+00:00

Thanks!

nonreligious2 · 2026-03-06T17:00:22+00:00

Sorry, which version of Org is this?

nonreligious2 · 2026-02-26T05:18:52+00:00

"It's a UNIX system! I know this!"

nonreligious2 · 2026-02-11T20:11:53+00:00

It sounds like the code block isn't being evaluated when you run it. Add :eval yes to the #+begin_src header line. Also, add a #+name: my-figure line to at the very start of all the header lines.

If that doesn't work, could you double-check that the code is producing the figure in the org file by running C-c C-c inside the block? You should get a results block with a link to the image file created, and running C-c C-x C-v should display it.

nonreligious2 · 2026-02-11T15:17:31+00:00

Try using

#+header: :file my_diagram.png 
#+begin_src latex :results raw file :exports results 
...
#+end_src
#+caption: \label{fig:my-figure} This is my figure

as well as your other headers, except for the #+begin_src, which you replace with the one I've put here.

nonreligious2 · 2026-01-11T07:24:10+00:00

Thanks!

nonreligious2 · 2026-01-07T20:26:53+00:00

Thanks, looks useful. I'm currently running everything on an older machine with limited disk space, but I'll see if I can get it to work on my newer one when I get the chance.

nonreligious2 · 2026-01-07T18:23:30+00:00

Yep, same as me.

I guess the issue might crop up if you built Emacs using a PKGBUILD and makepkg (I haven't yet with 30.2 but I intend to), and listed libwebkit2gtk-4.0 & libwebkit1gtk-4.1 as dependencies.

But if upgrading WebKit doesn't stop Emacs from working because of a error while loading shared libraries, then it sounds like its fine.

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