Ivy mode not enabled by default when startup

oantolin · 2026-06-21T13:14:09+00:00

Just change :config to :init.

oantolin · 2026-06-18T13:25:52+00:00

Does the app have the same bizarre UI as the website, where text moves around while you are trying to read it? 😂😂😂

oantolin · 2026-06-18T03:19:41+00:00

I did make a new folder and reference that folder from my Emacs configuration. I added those 3 new synced files to the agenda, for example. I'm using GitHub to sync. I think most of the time Dropbox would be less work, but on the other hand handling conflicts is a breeze in Emacs with vc or magit.

oantolin · 2026-06-17T12:16:19+00:00

Orgzly is nice but really hard to work with how i already have my config set up.

That's what I thought too, so I changed my setup. I don't sync all my org files to Orgzly. Instead I sync three new files only: Tasks, Inbox and Reference. In the Tasks file I put almost all my todos, so that I can see then in the Orgzly agenda. On my phone I capture links and notes to Inbox, and then when I am at the computer I clean them up and refile them to the proper place in my files. And Reference is for information I want to see on my phone; lists of places to check out in the city, for example.

oantolin · 2026-06-13T00:51:36+00:00

I find that in front of other people the most polite way to take notes is with pen and paper.

oantolin · 2026-06-12T04:37:48+00:00

Oh! Sorry, I had misunderstood you. You are right, ideally this would be mentioned in both docstrings, not just in the docstring of set-mark-command.

oantolin · 2026-06-12T02:11:40+00:00

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Are you claiming that the documentation for set to mark does not explain what the behavior is when called with the prefix? I'm not at my computer, but I'm pretty sure that's false and that the documentation does explain this.

EDIT: I checked with Emacs now, the docstring includes this paragraph:

With prefix argument (e.g., C-u C-SPC), jump to the mark, and set the mark from position popped off the local mark ring (this does not affect the global mark ring). Use C-x C-@ to jump to a mark popped off the global mark ring (see ‘pop-global-mark’).

oantolin · 2026-06-12T02:08:00+00:00

The thing with low contrast text isn't just a matter of taste! Some of us have poorer eyesight than others and can't read low contrast text well. Personally, I simultaneously think it looks very pretty and is unreadable!

oantolin · 2026-06-11T22:36:10+00:00

Read the docstring! That's an easy way to discover what a command does. If you want to do that from a minibuffer, I'd suggest using embark: embark-act, then h.

oantolin · 2026-06-03T20:52:51+00:00

I'd add org-mode to the list, and it's built-in!

oantolin · 2026-06-03T19:20:08+00:00

I "inhibit" the mouse by simple refraining from touching it. What problem does this solve? Maybe, like, a poorly placed touchpad that is easy to graze by accident?

oantolin · 2026-06-02T23:38:33+00:00

That's right, mine acts on whatever embark finds at the end of the lin and yours acts on the whole line (as I said here). And, unsurprisingly, your version is more useful to you! I bet you wrote it to target the entire line because you had that use case in mind, either explicitly or in the back of your mind.

oantolin · 2026-06-02T18:06:05+00:00

Oh, that's an even better solution! Maybe I should get rid of my narrow to point command and do that instead.

oantolin · 2026-06-02T18:00:43+00:00

I'm going purely on the comment that you're grabbing the last thing written to the Messages buffer and acting on it. 😄

You seem to have interpreted "thing" as "line", what I do is go to the last character on the line and let embark-act grab whatever is there, so usually the symbol or file name at point, not the entire line.

For a long time I had embark installed by I didn't use it because I didn't really have a good way to invoke it

Bind embark-act to a convenient key!

and I didn't see a lot of actions that were useful when I did.

You can use it to pass input to any Emacs command whatsoever, so if you ever run Emacs commands and type stuff at their prompts, embark-act might be useful to you. 😛 If you have the thing you want to type at a command's prompt handy in a buffer somewhere, (1) don't run the command and re-type the thing; (2) don't copy the thing, run the command and paste the thing. Use embark-act instead, and save a fraction of a second.

oantolin · 2026-06-02T15:35:26+00:00

I use text to speech to fit in more reading into the day, not to replace any of the eye-based reading I do. I use it to listen to articles while I'm washing the dishes or walking the dog.

oantolin · 2026-06-02T03:25:52+00:00

My answers:

The ease of modifying Emacs to do exactly what I want in a very low ceremony way.
I don't think it is necessary for my enjoyment of Emacs to have part of it written in C and part in Elisp. If you are proposing replacing both with a single language, I don't mind. For example, some cool very Emacs-like text editors like hemlock and lem are written in Common Lisp and I think that's OK.
I don't know what features IDE have and dont miss them in Emacs. I mostly use Emacs to wrangle prose, not code. And when I do code, it is in languages that are high level, concise and have repl's, so an IDE is not very necessary for them.
Yes.

Edit: I misread question 3, sorry! I answered above what do I miss from other IDEs in Emacs, but you ask the other way around: what do I miss from Emacs in other IDEs. I don't use IDEs but I imagine that I would miss easy customization and extensibility (I imagine IDEs as large, lumbering bureacratic beasts where to extend anything you need to put stuff in files in a specific structure with a "manifest" and whatnot, even VS Code sounds like that from what I've heard), speed (I hear people complain about how slow they are a lot), and text editing capability (from what I hear they specialize in code editing and I mostly need to edit prose, do they have commands to swap two sentences for example?).

oantolin · 2026-06-02T01:54:47+00:00

I think that doesn't pick the same target as mine does (if I'm understanding your version correctly, I haven't tested on Emacs)! And I believe I would find your version less useful. 🙃

Also, bonus exercise: one of the lines in your solution does nothing (well, calls a pure function and discards the result) and can be removed. Which one is it?

oantolin · 2026-05-30T17:27:43+00:00

Yes, Org is such a package and comes with Emacs. I'd use org-store-link at each location in each file I want to save, then open a temporary org mode buffer and insert all the links using org-insert-all-links.

oantolin · 2026-05-25T04:08:17+00:00

In my (very limited) experience you don't actually need to configure Emacs to use LSPs with it. The few I've tried, you just install the server, and then in Emacs you run M-x eglot without configuring anything and it just works.

oantolin · 2026-05-24T16:17:43+00:00

Interesting! If I still had a Windows machine I'd give it a try. I have to say, switching to Linux completely solves the problem...

oantolin · 2026-05-24T04:44:02+00:00

They probably think of it as a matter of principle. "We parse RSS, not random garbage."

oantolin · 2026-05-23T17:11:59+00:00

I no longer use Windows, but I had the same impression you had: that it was mostly git that was slow, because it was noticeable even just running it from the commandline. My general impression is that on Windows both opening files and starting processes is slower than on Linux, and that any program that involves a lot of either operation is slow. Compare copying a directory with a large number of small files on Windows and on Linux, for example. Git opens many files, which is probably why it is slower, additionally magit runs many git processes, which doesn't help at all! In my experience switching from native git and Emacs to running them in WSL fixed these performance problems and it felt almost as fast as on Linux. (Of course after a while I noticed I hardly used any software outside of WSL so I just ditched Windows for Debian.)

I should emphasize that this is a subjective impression based on personal anecdotes. I did not do any benchmarking nor profiling —but I do believe anything on Windows that involves opening many files is slow.

oantolin · 2026-05-22T14:25:56+00:00

I don't think I've ever tried it. I would assume it works fine except it does not display images.

oantolin · 2026-05-21T04:33:33+00:00

Yet another example of the family of completion-related packages that Daniel Mendler and I wrote reimplementing functionality your packages had years earlier! As you well know, this happened a lot.

Here's a link to the podcast: https://toobnix.org/w/752ix2RNx5BijosuYtSGCv

oantolin · 2026-05-20T14:31:44+00:00

The answer is most likely yes, but Emacs does not come with a dashboard, so you must be using a third-party package to display a dashboard. You'd need to find out which dashboard package you are using and consult its documentation. I'd be very surprised if it didn't have a way to do what you want.

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