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It's clearly either a giant granite birthday cake... or a prison far too easy to escape.

> No blogs or categories were found matching emacs.

OK then.

If you find yourself in that part of the world, there's also a carpet museum in Kidderminster, and the Black Country Museum in Dudley. A little bit further north and then there are a slew of industrial museums in Ironbridge.

Comic Sans has an excellent, unironic, track record as an assistive tool for young kids struggling with dyslexia.

So, you have to pay to access the law that you are subject to?

I'm in the process of messing around with a new distro where things are not quite what I am used to, and the usual suspects have been pretty helpful there... except for when they just make shit up

Grok is the only one that swore back at me. I kinda liked that. The others are way too polite, "Artificial Intelligence? Artificial Canadians, more like", my uni-going kid joked.

Back in '94 I remember motherfsking some paper I was writing late at night in the computer lab. I think the wordprocessor was AmiPro, and it was giving me grief to the extent that I was at the point of violence.

Another person in the lab came over, invited me to his machine and showed me LaTeX in Emacs. We became friends (he a mathematician, I a zoologist). I bought beer; he brought 'computer wisdom'. Thirty-odd years later, those files are still perfectly reproducible. All of my kid's school reports from elementary onwards... LaTeX.

It's hard to overstress how important is longevity in a toolset.

Side rant on Emacs' keybinds: with orderless and vertico (and marginalia and whichkey) it is almost as fast for me to `M-x dir` as to `C-x d`, and in both cases I get a dired buffer. Aaand, `dired` is magic. History also tells me that it is older than Emacs.

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`~/.XCompose` is your friend.

I frequently input International Phonetic Alphabet glyphs, some polytonic Greek, some Spanish and some Old English. Nothing is more than three key-presses away after an AltGr.

> based on EST for now

LOL.

Keep it that way. It's always some time at some point on the planet (so I've been told).

Emacs Web Wowser for the most part, for me, and it basically works... except when it fucking does not.

The modern web, as we all know, is all kinds of shit. Anybody here compile Firefox recently?

Writing Perl is easy; reading it a few weeks later is the hard part. CPP I don't know much about… I was a sysadmin, not a programmer <@:) # clown-hat-curly-hair-smiley-face… or, part of a regex

I am about 24 hours into using ghostText after losing a significant amount of effort to a distracted `C-w`. Browser tab gone; much swearing ensued. I was tempted to start logging my own keystrokes after this… but that's not a good idea.

With this extension (+1), I'm happy that `C-w` does as God, readline, and Emacs intended.

Not sure that I understand.

What's hard about `restic -r /media/ehecatl42/t14g3-backup/t14g3-restic-repo restore latest --target /home/ehecatl42/Desktop/nvim-restore/ --include /home/ehecatl42/.config/nvim/`* and just `cp`ing your missing files from that.

* From my recent .bash_history

Slashdot → Kuro5hin

Re. ubiquity making things hard to find— Recent application naming is infuriating! Consider, in GNOME, for example, Nautilus vs Files. "GNOME Files" does not, of course, help. Same with "Apple Photos".

GRRR!

About as helpful as trying to debug "An error has occurred".

Sounds like you use GNUs. A wildebeest to set up, but, once done, nothing quite like it filters the filth.

Parentheses (()), braces({}), brackets([]), and chevrons(<>). I concur.

I used to work in ITS looking after a few token Solaris boxen, and played a hand in inviting Stallman down to campus one year in the early-mid 2000s. I had pizza (appiza?) at Yorkside with RMS, and "Three Davey Gs" (my boss (Gewirtz), Graeber and Gelernter).

Graeber was anything but shy that afternoon; he and Stallman were at each other's throats, embarrassingly so. I don't recall their having fundamental philosophical differences… it was just a clash of personalities, I guess.

Being _by far_ the most junior person there, I felt incredibly uncomfortable.

I don't mean to be boring, but Emacs has had a window manager for years, EXWM. Oh, and a browser, EWW. If you want Inception-level recursion, a virtual LISP machine is your friend.

Brits are also allowed to live there.

Translate to fortune format and surprise yourself daily!

>GJail

Just Gail… the G is "soft" like giff.

Have a play with mojeek.com. Also heard good things about kagi, that is paid, though, I believe.

> This content is not available in your country/region

Ironic given koin.com maybe like κοινός (koinós -- "common, general, available")

Pop really is a very pleasant experience, and probably the best I've had on a personal computer. 3/4 of my immediate family run it on Thinkpads; the only hold-out is a Gentoo teenager wanting to be "weird".

Why do you say M-x doctor is the only AI emacs ever needs?

> How about the inverse?

Having GPT fill in (or 'out', if you prefer) the myriad of web-forms I'm currently wrestling with as a job-seeker would be amazing. There's only so many times each day I can copy and paste from my CV (résumé) without turning to drink.

> You have a link to a list?

`man readline`

Two videos by Steve Yegge should be enough to convince the most dyed-in-the-wool anti-Emacser to consider re-evaluating their position. (Here is the first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkIicfzPBys).

My top-tip, FWIW, is learning how to navigate the help system to the point that it drags you into the deepest layers of Emacs' source code.

> smex

The three packages, whichkey, helpful and marginalia are excellent for beginners for quick overviews of what's going on at the surface.

And, yes, Mickey P's work is undoubtedly of great value!

Kernighan also wrote Pic, a *roff/*TeX preprocessor. He knows a thing or two about typesetting. And, obviously, he's the 'K' in AWK.