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@ctietze @yacodes Yeah, I'd say check out the modus themes too.

@tusharhero @AdamRGrey That's interesting, I'd assumed that meow was just another Vi bindings package.

Personally, I'm quite happy with "standard" Emacs in that regard.

@tusharhero @AdamRGrey Then again, there are lots and lots of commands that I just use M-x and start typing for.

@tusharhero @AdamRGrey I think that I agree with you ... probably :-D

Discoverability in menus is the way that I get around LibreOffice when I am forced to use it. It's great for programmes that you don't use often, and it's become the conventional way to quickly "master" a programme.

For me GNU #Emacs was going to be differrent, and I think it's a general comment on the programme. Emacs key-strokes reward those who use it very frequently, who basically use it every day to do lots of things.

@tusharhero @AdamRGrey No-one told me to do it. I just wanted to run everything as much as I could from the keyboard.

I don't have a terribly strong opinion on turning off the #emacs menu bar, but I'm personally glad I did since it helped me achieve my goal. New-comers ought to have the pros and cons discussed so that they can make a balanced decision for themselves.

@tusharhero @AdamRGrey Interesting, I would have assumed that Project would be in the menu bar.

Then again, turning off the menu and icon bars was one of the first things I did when I started using #Emacs, so I've rarely seen it.

@AdamRGrey I suppose the point is that there are various routes to effectively using GNU Emacs, and we all do what makes sense to ourselves.

Just thinking about it right now, I realise that I rarely open a file with C-x C-f, the vast majority of the time I will use a bookmark or project-explorer (or maybe in Dired).

I seem to use C-x C-f more to create a new file than to visit one. Curious 🙂

#emacs

@AdamRGrey I use the built in "Project", which offers to find file, find regexp, find directory, VC-Dir, Eshell or to run some other command.

I will usually open a directory in the project and at some point start project-explorer.

#emacs

@AdamRGrey 'one never opens a "project"'

Funny, I swear that I do that, often multiple times a day.

C-x p p

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@rotopenguin Honestly, I'm more amused by it than annoyed. My desktop is very reliable (there, I wrote it, now reap the whirlwind!!!), it's just that all these complex pieces of modern technology find new ways of going wrong.

It didn't do this when the phone turned my old monitor off and on :-D

Maybe my phone should be sent to live somewhere else? But, really, I'm perfectly happy suspending from the cli.

@samuelpepys Yeah, so what were they saying about The Prince of Darkness?

@me I already do :-)

Syncthing keeps my desktop and laptop "in sync", including Emacs settings. It also hadles photos from my phone, and other videos, audio files and files etc. between phone/tablet/laptop/desktop.

It's ridiculouly useful (oh, I left out a few things I share with other people).

@climatebook.bsky.social For the vast majority of folk dance and song music from Britain and Ireland, when it goes "minor", it's actually in Dorian mode.

We confuse it by calling E Dorian or A Dorian E and A minor. But, for instance, I actually play E Dorian on my melodeon's D row, not actual E minor ... but it still seems to get refered to as "minor" by folk musicians who then thoroughly confuse guitar players and their chords.

So, I'm back home and settling down with a teapot of Earl Grey, a melodeon and some tin whistles. It's music practice time!

Incidentally, I've had this song going round in my head all day (trying not to burst into it in public):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJg0RGHAiUM

#melodeon #tinwhistle #FolkMusic

My #Debian 13 desktop keeps refusing (is "inhibited") from suspending.

I think I've worked out why.

When someone calls me, the left-hand monitor often gets turned off momentarilly by the phone signal. It comes back on, but Debian somehow thinks that this is a new monitor and then inhibits suspend.

It seems that the daft thing thinks it might be a laptop, though I have none of the Debian laptop stuff installed.

Not looking for a solution, just (I know about systemctl suspend -i), I'm just ...

@n_dimension @emilymbender

I'm with Lord Byron on the Luddites: