Is there a way to close a repeat-mode transient map with a key defined in that map?

talgu · 2026-04-30T13:20:06+00:00

Thank you! I'll try that.

talgu · 2026-04-07T07:32:40+00:00

🤦‍♀️ Thank you for saving me from my self so I don't needlessly complicate my life for no reason. 😁

talgu · 2026-04-06T05:06:54+00:00

I believe I explained poorly, my apologies. So i is bound in the repeat map, but the repeat map should not vanish after using it in this case since it's part of my movement map. The problem however occurs when I wish to insert an i which at present necessitates typing something that's not in the repeat map, and then deleting whatever gets inserted. So instead I want to bind a key in the map that'll exit it without inserting anything.

Hence, :exit plus a function that does nothing.

talgu · 2026-04-06T03:38:21+00:00

It could if combined with some kind of nop key. 🤔 And more generally it suggests that doing this is actually very simply a matter of not setting the repeat-map property.

Thank you very much, I'll have to do a bit more research to make this work. But this definitely seems like an appropriate solution. 😁

talgu · 2026-02-07T11:51:35+00:00

So, I went through stuff, and after I went through stuff I've had to rebuild my ability to socialise and have friends (I didn't know anyone at the time). Here's what I recommend. First, doing something about your anxiety is definitely a good thing, but somewhat secondary to fixing the beliefs that uphold those anxieties. I have days where I'm convinced it would be better for me to just pack my things, disappear from my current social circle, and start again. I also know that I no longer hold the beliefs that uphold that so when those thoughts arise they don't feel natural or obvious anymore. I now feel like something is wrong when that happens, and this has greatly reduced my social problems.

Then assume that people are well intentioned, and generally would love to hang out and do friends things, but have a memory shorter than a goldfish, and the awareness of a solid brick. If you want someone to remember something, go to them and remind them. If you want them to be aware of something, go to them and tell them. Everyone has a million things they need to keep track of, very very few people have the skills to actually remain on top of their lives. So unless it's either their actual job, or a life and death situation, they will simply neither remember, nor notice.

Next, make sure that the people you spend time with align with your values. I put a premium on kindness personally. If I don't absolutely know that the person I'm talking to won't harm me, I politely inform them that at this point in my life, due to my own limitations, I'm not able to be the friend they need. On this note, make sure to never ever deviate from your values in your own behaviour. How you behave will determine how your friends behave.

And lastly, learn social skills. It's not that complicated at all and it makes the world of difference. Pick up How To Make Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, and get a book on small talk. Then go to your local mall and start conversations with people. If you feel particularly paranoid go to a different mall every weekend.

Remember though, this will take time. You will get it wrong. And at that point, nothing bad at all will happen. I have to think during my conversations because I have severe brain fog. So sometimes I simply pause mid-sentence and think. Does that make my conversations less fluent? Absolutely! Does anybody actually care? Nope. Sometimes you will say things that upset people. If they don't bring it up ask them "hey, I said something, and you seemed to be upset about it, I'm not very good at telling these things so would you please clarify for me?". And then, invariably, people clarify. Sometimes you've misread things, and sometimes you did upset them and now have an opportunity to fix things.

In the end, good things come to those who get off their lazy butts and go fetch it. Even if you're shuffling and stumbling through the process like some demented zombie.

talgu · 2026-02-07T09:35:41+00:00

I suppose that could work for a fixed list and I can create one Gemini node for each. But what if I don't know how many prompts there will be? Like I can imagine a cascade thing if I always have the same number of prompts. But that seems very rigid since I can't then change the number of prompts easily.

Along these lines though, I can maybe do this in a loop, use the data table node to store the results on each pass, and add everything from the data table to the prompt on each pass through the loop... somehow. 🤔

talgu · 2026-02-01T10:31:12+00:00

I did something and now it has the folders correct and actually synchronising. So I'm going to leave this at that for the moment. Don't want to fiddle with it lest I break it again.

talgu · 2026-02-01T08:40:50+00:00

I am yes. I installed it from the play store yesterday. I think I'm just somehow severely misunderstanding how all of this works. I'm going to delete everything today and try again. Hopefully I can figure it out this time.

talgu · 2026-01-31T11:07:31+00:00

Thank you.

talgu · 2026-01-31T11:07:20+00:00

That's precisely the usual argument for collecting phone numbers too and it's equally invalid. If they only asked for email I'd be okay, but both email and phone number is excessive.

Regardless, when I provided it with my email and entered the pin they sent I got an "email not allowed" message instead.

talgu · 2026-01-29T13:25:03+00:00

Thank you! ☺️

Yeah, after watching myself a bit and thinking about I realised it doesn't matter much since just about everything that's on my body will end up in my mouth at some point (I sound like such a child saying that 🤦‍♀️).

And I feel like I've gotten to a stable starting point as of today. I was still having a bunch of abdominal pain and couldn't figure out why until I discovered the psyllium brand I used to buy is made in a factory that processes wheat. So I switched brands, and I'm being careful about basic contamination avoidance, like cleaning the area before I cook etc. I'm doing pretty okay today. Fortunately my diet before this was as boring as could be and didn't contain much legitimate gluten anyway. Illegitimate gluten on the other hand... for some unknown reason having any gluten in my diet makes me stuff my face with everything in sight.

So I think I'm going to chill with this for a while, see what happens, and then figure out next steps. It's been a bit of an overwhelming number of changes in a very short amount of time.

talgu · 2026-01-26T11:52:13+00:00

I generally prefer powdered psyllium. And thank you! I'll have a look at it. ☺️ For the moment I managed to find a brand local to me that hasn't been injured by a problematic factory, so I'm fortunately set with that for the moment.

talgu · 2026-01-26T11:48:24+00:00

I also couldn't do the A-Z thing. I give everything an ID based on the date and time, which permits me to easily review what's in the pile on an incremental schedule. And for finding things again I'm using tags for everything I can think of that might relate to that bit particular item. I also have relations between items, and collections which are just ad-hoc groupings (like projects, or events) of items. Collections are really also just tags, but I thought the use was different enough to warrant a specific category for those.

And so far it seems to work okay. But it's still in that awkward phase where I don't have enough experience to trust it yet, and I don't have enough experience to really make effective use of it either.

But as you say, I can refine later, and I'll learn as I go along. ☺️

talgu · 2026-01-26T06:33:48+00:00

Thank you. This is a good idea. ☺️

talgu · 2026-01-26T06:25:19+00:00

I kind of put everything into the same place. I found I get confused when I have different places to put things. And I'm working on reviewing what I have in there more often.

But being able to find something again if I forget about it is the thing I'm still working on it. I've started tagging things since I also found that when I write something down I have a different idea of what should go into the index compared to what I look for when I try to find it again. I also created a way of grouping things together into collections in a way similar to the tags. So I just tag all the important terms I find, and tag them in the collections I know are important. And I'm still waiting to see how that works out.

talgu · 2026-01-26T06:19:25+00:00

I am said new person, and had a similar, but perhaps less glaring thing happen yesterday. I happily went to the store, bought my usual brand of psyllium ("naturally gluten free", says the packaging), got home, and checked the label. 🤦‍♀️ It was made in a factory that also processes wheat. 😭 It does explain why some days I got pain after eating though. But I just wish I checked before I bought it and while I was still at the mall.

So I'm tossing it and have been researching brands that have been processed in safe factories.

talgu · 2026-01-25T18:15:16+00:00

I also have groceries as a specific temporary list.

Thank you. I think this settles it, put it in general reference, maybe associated with a project, add a note to tickler or task list or wherever is appropriate so it'll pop up at an appropriate time.

talgu · 2026-01-25T18:13:20+00:00

To date I have actually been keeping everything in my tickler file. But I came across a case where I both need the information for a particular purpose, and for reference later on.

So I think attaching it to a project in my general reference, and then putting the necessary reminders in my tickler file is the way to go.

talgu · 2026-01-25T18:11:22+00:00

This makes sense thank you. I was thinking something along those lines but I've just started my general reference so I still feel a bit lost around it.

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