I made it to an irreal blog post!
https://janusworx.com/blog/on-how-emacs-adapts/
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Finally figured out a way to get all my tasks and notes all ready and waiting for me in Emacs, every morning :)
https://janusworx.com/blog/having-my-emacs-tasks-and-notes-ready/
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, @pymander, @crmsnbleyd, @rostre, @fidel & @mousebot, thank you all for your help and thoughtful replies.Before I flog this horse to death though, permit me one more ask
At what point in you #emacs journey did you folk begin using use-package Did ya’ll just start out with it? Or were you just chugging along until some problem got so unbearable that ya’ll started casting out for solutions and use-package was it.
What specific pain point did it solve for you?
(Asking because while I see the appeal, I am trying to see if I want to actually begin using this tool. It does nothing currently. My emacs is pretty simple and each big mode has its config broken out into its own init file)
Thank you folk, once again :)
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oh! use-package is for *configuration* of packages. not installation.
definitely for another day then. my #Emacs has not reach that level of complexity yet. and i have other things to learn and do now.
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copied lots of stuff. so far #Emacs is holding up
hopefully I will be able to use 29. 🤞
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now that i inadvertently formatted the main system because of a combination of a weird driver crash, sickness and inattention, i decided to move to #Emacs 29, using the ubuntu-elisp ppa instead of the venerable kelleyk (will move back whenever they release 29)
i get a “pure-gtk” warning, about crashes that might occur during transfer of large selection data. but i have no choice now. i want the new hotness. So in for a penny, in for a pound.
(I did check the system-configuration-options and the package seems to be compiled with both x --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 and wayland --with-pgtk=yes support. so let’s see how stable it is)
also decided to rewrite my init file and the way I install packages. (learning use-package finally.
Looks like a good way to noodle around while recovering from this dastardly viral.
Let’s see how it goes.
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I use #Emacs. I write code using #Python
I write in #English
I am #Heterosexual and #Married to a wonderful woman
It’s just because I stumbled into these and I was ok with them.
Later in life when I learnt how to reflect and think critically, I evaluated most of my big life choices and stayed with most of them, because they made me happy
And I am and do all these things, not because these are inherently good or better. it’s just what i like and what i choose to do / be
Folks choosing / being ok with / stumbling into the alternatives are choosing what makes them happy. They aren’t wrong. They aren’t bad.
Just different.
We could all do with a little kindness (and a little bit of self reflection)
and if we can’t do that, at least learn to mind our own business and not to poke our noses into stuff that does not concern us
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#emacs, #python, #english, #heterosexual, #married, #mjbBabbles
to close your window *without* closing your buffer, use C-x 0
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#TIL: Emphasise any text you select, in #OrgMode using the keyboard
Use Ctrl-c Ctrl-x Ctrl-f and it’ll let you choose your markup.
From #irreal’s latest #Emacs blog post
https://irreal.org/blog/?p=11572
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#til, #orgmode, #Irreal, #emacs
#TIL: Since I sync my zettelkasten-esque Org Roam folder across multiple devices, using Syncthing, every once in while I’d get file conflicts and revisions and the Org Roam db would panic and log errors, because it would find multiple versions of the same file.
Today I learnt, I could exclude subfolders from my Org Roam path. using org-roam-file-exclude-regexp
I put in both my Syncthing subfolders and et voilà, no more errors!
(setq org-roam-file-exclude-regexp '("\\.stversions" "\\.stfolder"))
[#Syncthing](https://toots.dgplug.org/tags/Syncthing) [#Emacs](https://toots.dgplug.org/tags/Emacs) [#OrgRoam](https://toots.dgplug.org/tags/OrgRoam)
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#til, #syncthing, #emacs, #orgroam