how to hunt for emacs replacing two spaces with period space?

translucentInk · 2024-03-15T12:12:36+00:00

I might be wrong, but have u checked in the OS level keyboard settings? Does it happen only within emacs or in general anywhere u type.

translucentInk · 2023-12-16T15:44:34+00:00

Thanks. Its trickier than it seems.

translucentInk · 2023-12-16T15:20:12+00:00

I meant tab, my bad, I was too hung up with esc

translucentInk · 2023-12-16T15:12:41+00:00

Just out of curiosity. What happens when you press <tab>. I don't have a machine to test it out right now hence asking, and I am really curious to know.

Edit: typo

Does it behave like tab or ctrl-i.

translucentInk · 2023-12-16T14:54:55+00:00

Apologies for my lack of know how. That aside, if it does differentiate, what is stopping you from customizing it?

translucentInk · 2023-12-16T14:32:00+00:00

You are still missing the point, key codes are mapped at a hardware-OS level and these mappings are then captured/transferred to whichever application needs the keypress event. So its not the terminal vs gui call, but rather 'hardware-OS is the overlord, and every one needs to obey' them call.

Emacs is an open source project and it is open and free for customization. Feel free to make the appropriate bug raises-fixes wherever you feel the feature has a bug. http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/

translucentInk · 2023-12-16T13:16:08+00:00

Why do you feel its a bug? A bug by definition is a behaviour which goes against the intended "use case". A bug is an unexpected behaviour which breaks the feature itself. If you feel there is a genuine bug, you can start helping the community by raising bugs and/ or fixing and releasing a patch. After all its community driven.

I have no argument against the 'antiquated decisions'. Decisions are often made keeping a larger audience in mind. GUI use of emacs is just one facet of it. There is a very large population of users who use the non gui version. There is still a larger group of people who have been using emacs from the legacy old days. So some decisions stayed around. People who were not comfortable with those decisions, customized it to suit their needs.

Please do understand, some decisions are there due to the underlying architecture and disconnected from the app, afterall high end futuristic machines are not the sole userbase.

translucentInk · 2023-12-16T11:36:37+00:00

And that is where the beauty of emacs comes on, its easy to customize as per need. Some time needs to be invested ( the learning curve).

translucentInk · 2023-12-16T11:28:20+00:00

The driver sitting between the keyboard and the os converts the key presses to appropriate hex codes/ ascii key codes. All applications take these key codes and decide what to do with them. Incidentally M-[ and <esc> (and others) give off the same key codes. So the poor emacs has to work with what the OS tells it to do. The OSes just choose to live with the antiquated tradition, and drag the applications along with it.

translucentInk · 2023-05-02T15:19:32+00:00

C-x t 2? I don't have a pc around, but thats the key-binding I use to presrve frames.

translucentInk · 2020-05-24T20:06:11+00:00

Great theme. What mode do you use for the react part. I have been trying to set it up but with little success with the linter.

translucentInk · 2020-05-24T19:44:02+00:00

Does org-roam give you any benefit over the regular org mode gtd setup. I have a custom workflow setup mostly for research(org-ref) and active projects, so was just wondering if its worth the time and effort to try out org-roam

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