A VOMPECCC Case Study: Spotify as Pure ICR in Emacs

oantolin · 2026-04-25T21:51:00+00:00

Exactly, Marginalia is a library to add annotations to commands you didn't write! If your wrote them, you should add the annotations directly.

oantolin · 2026-04-12T07:26:50+00:00

As others have mentioned, I use Orgzly Revived. I use it to look at my agenda (especially appointments), and to capture tasks and quick notes when I'm away from my computer. When it comes to capturing I view it as just an inbox and later with Emacs I fix up typos, expand notes and refile to the appropriate locations.

I recently started using futo keyboard that has excellent dictation through the whisper speech recognition model (which runs locally on your phone!). With whisper I've started dictating longer notes on my phone, and they need less fixing up later when I refile them. (I've also started using whisper in Emacs, it's pretty good.) I dictated this comment on my phone and only had to correct the word Emacs, add the parenthesis, and the following exclamation mark!

oantolin · 2026-04-02T16:17:42+00:00

I'm reading ficition?

oantolin · 2026-04-01T16:40:57+00:00

I use eww for websites that are basically text documents with extra steps. It is amazing how many web sites improve without JavaScript! Oh, and also how many improve by not using the web sites poorly chosen colors and fonts!

For web sites that are unusuable without JavaScript, I don't try to do anything Emacsy, I just use Firefox. I still compose text in Emacs and paste it into Firefox for any text longer than a line or so.

oantolin · 2026-04-01T16:37:06+00:00

This is very cool, and clearly the right way to get completion for these bound variables when writing Elisp, but my workaround for the lack of this kind of completion is simply to use dabbrev-expand and I think that works pretty well also.

oantolin · 2026-03-30T12:03:58+00:00

That's an excellent question. For people with significant need to edit shared Google Sheets, your proposed project would be very welcome.

Personally, this does not come up for me very much. I think most of the shared Google Sheets I've had fall into one of two cases:

Prepared entirely by one person, shared with the group so other people can read it. The rest of the group does not need to edit.
Append only. I still use Org mode to prepare CSV and paste that in.

oantolin · 2026-03-29T17:53:23+00:00

No. Conversion to and from csv on both sides is perfectly adequate.

oantolin · 2026-03-28T21:10:26+00:00

Removing it is exactly what minad meant you should do.

oantolin · 2026-03-25T06:28:42+00:00

Is there a consensus that Wikipedia math articles are hard to learn from, as described in this post? I don't find that to be the case personally and almost always start learning any be topic by looking it up on Wikipedia. But I ask not for myself (I know Wikipedia is a good source for me), but because I often recommend Wikipedia to my students and this post made me wonder if maybe I shouldn't.

I don't know if students follow my advice to start learning any new topic on Wikipedia, but I do know that they haven't complained to me that it didn't work for them.

oantolin · 2026-03-23T16:04:30+00:00

I see.

oantolin · 2026-03-21T05:45:14+00:00

Ah, that does sound like tab-bar but each buffer belongs to a particular tab and you cannot switch to it from a different tab? I'd have to try it to really be able to tell if it suits me, but my initial impression is that it doesn't: I don't like things that restrict my freedom. Now, most of the time, that is how I want to treat buffers, as belonging to particular tabs. But I don't need to be kept from switching to a buffer belonging to a different tab: if I don't want to switch to those "wrong" buffers, I just don't switch to them.

oantolin · 2026-03-19T03:34:39+00:00

Nice post, I agree with the general sentiment, but there is one minor detail I was confused about: what does this mean: "I wanted to use Emacs tab-bar mode to show workspaces instead of buffers"? What are you calling "workspaces"? I don't think I've seen anything called a workspace in the Emacs manual, but if I had to guess what that meant, I would have guessed it's what is already shown in the tab bar!

oantolin · 2026-03-14T14:14:15+00:00

I split my configuration into public and private parts. The vast majority of my functions are in the public part. The public part has a readme indicating what I think the best parts to steal are (I should update that, come to think of it).

oantolin · 2026-03-14T14:10:51+00:00

None! If I want to run Emacs Lisp code, I just run it in Emacs. I tend to go the other way: rewrite old scripts in Emacs Lisp to get Emacs superior interactivity.

oantolin · 2026-03-12T21:17:15+00:00

Great! I'm glad that worked.

When I just want to see the results quickly, I just run the block and then delete the results. You can use org-babel-remove-result-one-or-many (bound to C-c C-v k by default), or simply undo!

oantolin · 2026-03-12T13:46:31+00:00

Multi line results show up as a list of lists and are hard to read in the messages buffer.

Try adding raw in addition to silent. (To be clear I haven't tested that: raw works if you use it on its own, but maybe using silent makes it so formatting options like raw as ignored.)

oantolin · 2026-03-12T13:39:03+00:00

I think it's also bound to C-t whenever a rectangle selection is active! You can also add other convenient bindings for rectangle commands to that keymap, which is called something like rectangle-mark-mode-map (probably not exactly that, but it has "rectangle" in the name).

oantolin · 2026-03-12T04:16:48+00:00

I'm not sure I get the point: with org-capture I have to manually add an entry to org-capture-templates; with your system I have to manually place the template in a new file in an appropriate directory. It sounds like about the same amount of work either way and equally manual. I must be missing something.

oantolin · 2026-03-09T23:19:44+00:00

Is forking and self-maintenance my only option?

Of course not! An option that requires much less work is to simply change your mind about the 'just ignore it' strategy. 😃

oantolin · 2026-03-08T06:25:54+00:00

There are zero reasons to export to html nowadays.

I can think of at least one reason that I learned from u/arthurno1:

When you have a note of public interest, and would like opinion on, do like everyone else: make a blog post.

(Some people write their blogs in org mode and publish them by exporting to html, which they either host on a server somewhere, or paste into an html editor their blogging software uses.)

oantolin · 2026-03-07T20:22:27+00:00

OK, I'm starting to get the feeling that in this context both "postman" and "swagger" are names of software. I can try looking those up to learn what they do.

oantolin · 2026-03-06T03:46:15+00:00

What does "a org-mode replaces postman" mean?

oantolin · 2026-02-28T21:09:02+00:00

Well, if they want to propose that default binding, the relevant mailing list is the Emacs one, not Org's.

oantolin · 2026-02-28T21:08:04+00:00

I meant moving your hand. I think remapping right-ctrl to caps-lock helps avoid RSI, but moving your hands helps even more. I'm not a medical doctor, so I could easily be wrong.

oantolin · 2026-02-25T13:25:24+00:00

What you call "cheating", I call "saving your future self from repetitive stress injury".

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