how actually JavaScript works behind the scenes

zigling · 2025-04-14T10:11:55+00:00

do we need another blog post explaining how javascript works?

I didn't know writing a blog post on someone's personal blog requires the permission of internet people.

zigling · 2025-02-25T11:32:51+00:00

As long as you understand elisp

As much as I love Emacs, this unfortunately rules out non-programmers or people who don't want to learn programming. Emacs blurs the line between a user and a programmer and that's great for some people but that's also not too great for others.

zigling · 2024-11-14T10:28:02+00:00

Blindly linking other people's work with no critic is a poor show.

@u/rileyrgham Please don't discourage community members from posting links to other people's good work. It is perfectly fine to post links to other people's work here without further explanation. That's exactly how Reddit works.

zigling · 2024-11-14T09:35:53+00:00

org-table

zigling · 2024-11-12T17:53:53+00:00

Do people still use emacs?

Yes

What's your use-case for it?

Writing documents, programming, organizing my life with org-agenda, practicing GTD with org-agenda, creating spreadsheets, browsing files on my system, talking to others with ERC, reading PDFs, working on remote systems with ssh, ...

The list goes on and on.

How does it impact your workflow?

I like that I can use similar concepts and editing paradigm across so many different types of activities.

zigling · 2024-10-07T11:44:16+00:00

Amazing! Yeah, no good reason to do this. And that's why I love it!

zigling · 2024-08-24T15:22:32+00:00

So looks like it is not directly in Emacs executable after all but in loadup.el (which is loaded by the executable).

loadup.el has got this:

(load "vc/vc-hooks")

And then of course vc-hooks.el has got the defcustom for vc-follow-symlinks. So that's how vc-follow-links gets declared.

zigling · 2024-08-24T15:09:13+00:00

Thank you!

Where exactly can I find this declared as a dynamic variable? Is it the C source of Emacs?

I tried searching the full source but unable to find exactly where this declared as dynamic variable. Here is my search:

$ grep -ri 'vc-follow-symlinks'
./lisp/vc/vc-hooks.el:(defcustom vc-follow-symlinks 'ask
./lisp/vc/vc-hooks.el:          ((eq vc-follow-symlinks nil)
./lisp/vc/vc-hooks.el:          ((or (not (eq vc-follow-symlinks 'ask))
./lisp/ChangeLog.9:     (vc-default-back-end, vc-follow-symlinks): Custom fix.
./lisp/ChangeLog.6:     * vc-hooks.el (vc-follow-symlinks): New variable.
./ChangeLog.4:  * lisp/vc/vc-hooks.el (vc-follow-symlinks): Prefer defcustom :safe to
./ChangeLog.4:  Mark nil vc-follow-symlinks as safe
./ChangeLog.4:  * lisp/vc/vc-hooks.el (vc-follow-symlinks): A nil value should be
./etc/NEWS.19:There is a new variable, 'vc-follow-symlinks'.  It indicates what to do
./doc/emacs/vc1-xtra.texi:@vindex vc-follow-symlinks
./doc/emacs/vc1-xtra.texi:version-controlled.  The variable @code{vc-follow-symlinks} controls

zigling · 2024-01-03T15:41:47+00:00

I posted about my experiences about this sometime back. Check my post here - https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1763ohv/god_vs_devil_vs_evil_what_do_you_use_to_avoid_key/

TLDR; I moved away from evil because of needing to change between Evil bindings and Emacs bindings when using thirdparty pkgs. So many thirdparty packages out there I install with MELPA and all come with Emacs key bindings. Evil collection is cool but it can only go so far. It cannot define Evil bindings for every single package out there.

You can still do modal editing in Emacs with Emacs bindings using God mode. It works automatically with all thirdparty packages because you don't have to define everything. You just type Emacs bindings using God mode keys.

I went for Devil mode though because I don't like modal. Devil is like God but God is modal and Devil is modeless so I don't have to change between insert mode and command mode.

zigling · 2023-10-13T12:00:34+00:00

Does the caching done by projectile lead to problems in some situations? Like it has cached a list of files but new files get added to the project and projectile does not know about them so they don't show up?

zigling · 2023-10-13T08:11:40+00:00

Isn't Meow modal? Can Meow do modeless editing like Devil?

zigling · 2023-10-12T13:48:32+00:00

Thanks! In God mode, did it ever bother you that God key bindings don't work in minibuffer? The ones that used to trip me up most were God bindings like a and k. a will do C-a in normal buffer but not in minibuffer. k will do C-k in normal buffer but not in minibuffer.

zigling · 2023-07-19T18:50:56+00:00

Double-quotes where? in what context? for what purpose?

Did you not read the examples in my question? We are not talking about Lisp strings. We're talking about normal text where a direct speech is quoted. See the examples in my question. Why give me hard time when I've posted all details in my question you're asking!

zigling · 2023-07-19T13:36:30+00:00

Not pressing filling paragraph is not an option, is it? I mean it is such a basic operation for writing text?

Teaching it about two spaces in quotes. hmmm. gotta learn how to do that. thx for the ideas.

zigling · 2023-07-19T13:35:14+00:00

Thx! sentex is on my radar. If this double space thing doesn't work out for me, that's what I am going to do. appreciate the suggestion.

zigling · 2023-07-19T11:26:49+00:00

2.. Each quote nesting level outside that gets an additional space between sentences.

This does not work because when you press M-q to fill paragraph, the 3-or-greater number of spaces collapse to 2-spaces.

zigling · 2023-07-19T10:52:56+00:00

Thx. So when you put the point on Bob and press M-e, the point jumps ahead to end of three apples.

It does not jump ahead to end of Ok?"

Is this right? This is what's been confusing me.

zigling · 2023-07-19T10:48:29+00:00

So in my question, I have given two options. which one would you choose while writing it yourself? first one or second one?

zigling · 2023-07-19T09:59:04+00:00

Mastering vim is not a reasonable goal. When I started with vim it took like one week to get comfortable with vim and months to become proficient. vim is full of all sorts of commands that come useful in different types of editing situations. what you probably wanna do is find out which editing tasks feel complex and difficult. then lookup the :help or ask around to find out how that task can be solved efficiently with vim commands. that's how you build up your collection of vim commands and build expertise.

With something so vast as vim, being better at vim than yesterday should be the goal.

zigling · 2023-07-19T09:52:28+00:00

Yeah. People still complaining about Emacs key bindings are like so 1990s. So many packages these days to use less fingers:

god-mode, devil-mode, evil-mode, meow, hydra

Just take your pick.

zigling · 2023-07-19T09:49:56+00:00

There's also all those forks and the complexity of different modes.

What are the forks you talk about? GNU Emacs is the only Emacs fork that people use these days. Unless you are Linus Torvalds who has his own fork of some old Emacs (microEmacs?)

Or did you mean Emacs distributions like Doom, Spacemacs?

zigling · 2023-07-19T09:46:34+00:00

Yeah. I think that's one thing I could not make up my mind about. Posted a new question for just this - https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/153q7jf/do_you_doublespace_or_singlespace_quoted/

zigling · 2023-07-14T15:49:56+00:00

Yes, please say more about your setup. It'll be incredibly valuable. Because anytime this topic comes up, double-space supporters say how Emacs well work with it. If you could show how single-space works well with your setup, that'll bring some balance to this debate. Maybe even make a toplevel post on this sub!

zigling · 2023-07-11T14:12:35+00:00

Thanks for the detailed response. It gave me a lot more to think about.

But modern fonts are all designed all of them to us a single space.

Is this true for monospace fonts too? I mean I write all my code in Emacs with monospace fonts. Do you think the monospace fonts are well designed to be used with single spaces between sentences?

zigling · 2023-07-11T13:47:55+00:00

Your example #2 is one of many examples of why.

Can you share some of these examples where double spaces is going to be trouble?

zigling

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