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Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
I use follow-mode (built-in to #emacs) to split reading buffers across modern wide screens to use all the real estate. The mode keeps the panes in sync with each other. http://images.toryanderson.com/follow-mode.gif
Is there a good way to have my system share a kill ring with #emacs? There is cognitive dissonance in going to emacs, where I can cut multiple things and then yank the one that I want right here, to my browser, where I have to make sure the thing I want to paste is the most recent thing I copied/cut.
#Emacs predates the internet, and has answers to many emacs questions built-in with a sophisticated documentation/help system that defies "Just Google It." My goal this decade is to get used to this.
formulaic changes need to be made to some repeating content: 3 different #emacs options:
1. Replace [regexp] heavy lifting. Can perform actual functions on match groups.
2. Macros. Easiest: hit "record", do you thing in such a way as to be ready for the very next one, save/repeat. Can be saved as a function if you love it.
3. Multiple Cursors. One-off, but the quickest if you can see your targets on the screen and don't want to think about more steps.
RT @mickeynp
I'm pretty sure this command is coolest commands in #emacs Magit (@magit_emacs):
`C-c M-g t': Traces the function/defun point is in (or on, depending on where you invoke it.)
You get a complete git log history tracing all the changes made to that function. Awesome!
RT @dawranliou
The #Emacs UI (both visual and non visual) is so good ✨
Uncluttered, timeless, self-documented and endlessly customizable to fit your workflows. Good job to all the free software contributors!
#emacs pros be like...
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RT @SteveStuWill
When the excavator becomes an extension of yourself
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1555622201466167296
I was recently trolled that #emacs "is only used by 3% of developers, so is completely irrelevant." There are many good responses, but what would yours be?
Comparing visual git tools -- because how could you compare with #emacs #magit?
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5338960/Git-Comparing-Visual-Studio-2022-with-MeGit-EGit-a
To self: do I "fold" cases or do I "flatten" them? language problems in #emacs mnemonics.
My morning regexp usage: reformatting pgn chess format into latex format. Bonus: using multi-cursors for incrementing numbers. #emacs
RT @mickeynp
Keyboard Macros are misunderstood in #emacs.
If you only use them for light text editing, then you're missing out on its most powerful feature of all:
The ability to record and play back nearly anything. Like your fav. window config.
https://masteringemacs.org/article/keyboard-macros-are-misunderstood
RT @mickeynp
#Emacs's minibuffer completion is either something you put up with, or you abandon it for another completion framework.
But it's seen significant improvements in the last 10 years.
It's more feature rich and customizable than ever before.
👀https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/understanding-minibuffer-completion
Ah! I just discovered #emacs OOTBox forward-paragraph for going to the next blank line in code files, where I have big space-divided data structures
suddenly I have all kinds of "mairix" stuff interrupting my #emacs workflow. It's in org and it's in Gnus. What in the world is this?
I just experienced #emacs rectangle-mark-mode for the first time, though I've been using rectangles for a long time. This allows me to make a rectangle easily even when neither first nor the last line are the longest. Nice!
It worked! #EXWM #emacs, entering a standup report. Orgmode:
<f3> (start macro recording)
C-k (cut line, undo to put it back)
<C-x o> (other-window) to Firefox
Paste (yank, C-y), then TAB to go to the next field
<C-x o> (other-window) back to my orgmode file
next-line
<f4> to save the recording
<f4> repeatedly to do all this again.
I didn't expect it to work after the jump to a non-emacs place!
Big yes. #Emacs dired rocks.
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RT @_jonesian
emacs has a utility called dired that is a joy to work with. Renaming, moving around files, etc is all trivial with it.
https://twitter.com/_jonesian/status/1488267147562213377
Full Stack Clojure web app engineer
Joined Jul 2021
