30 years using #emacs. TIL

'If you want the effect of just ls, you can use 'C-x C-d (command list-directory)'.

In my defence I always use and prefer 'ls -al' in a terminal (which is the sensible dired default) but for denote the shorter version is much more useful.

@dougmerritt @screwlisp @veer66

More about #Emacs #evilmode and modal editing in emacs.

Heres a 12 year old explanation of Viper, Vimpulse and Evil.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14291260/difference-between-viper-vimpulse-and-evil-for-emacs

Meow-edit is lightweight visual modal editing like Helix.

https://github.com/meow-edit/meow

Boon is another , but lacks visuals.

https://github.com/jyp/boon

@dougmerritt @screwlisp @veer66

Emacs does and has done, for a very long time, a full vi implementation including the ex/ed commands.

#Emacs is in fact a very good vi emulator, at least as good as vim. Much better if you take the rest of Emacs into account. Having elisp and all of the capabilities of Emacs at the same time it is giving vi abilities. It's vi with modal editing and ex if and when you want it, and also so much more.

I worked professionally using vi, not vim, for 15 years before switching to emacs for the last 30 years.

I've tried vim on occasion, even with lots of vimscriprt it falls very short for me.

@gausby If you specify the block language as elixir-ts then it should use elixir-ts-mode for highlighting. Then to solve the execution problem you need to do

(defalias 'org-babel-execute:elixir-ts 'org-babel-execute:elixir)

#orgmode #emacs

(Just messing at vncviewer now, assuming the same will apply to Bochs)

So something about how it talks to the keyboard means that
1) When the X11 window has focus, I can't use the normal keys to switch between #EXWM char mode and line mode.
2) When in line mode (the default) modifiers don't work.

So I need to mouse-over the window modeline/fringe so that the #Emacs window has focus without the X11 window having focus, and then switch it to char mode, then focus on the X11 window.

:/

#emacs For org-babel, is there a way to alias a mode? Yesterday, I had an issue where I installed ob-elixir, which still works, though it may need a bit of polish after not being updated for years. The problem was the syntax highlighting in the code block, because I use elixir-ts-mode, but when I tell the code block to use elixir-ts, Babel doesn't know about it because it expect “elixir”, can I somehow alias elixir to elixir-ts—or is there some other solution?

A while ago I tooted about the shift key not working in certain builds of #Bochs 3. But now I notice that it also doesn't work in TigerVNC vncviewer. So now I think it's actually an issue with my window manager.

#Emacs #EXWM

LLM text chat is everywhere. Who’s optimizing its UX? https://lobste.rs/s/yeq24m #emacs #vibecoding
https://xenodium.com/llm-text-chat-is-everywhere-whos-optimizing-ux

Alvaro Ramirez: LLM text chat is everywhere. Who’s optimizing UX? https://lmno.lol/alvaro/llm-text-chat-is-everywhere-whos-optimizing-ux #emacs

New blog post: LLM text chat is everywhere. Who’s optimizing its UX?

https://xenodium.com/llm-text-chat-is-everywhere-whos-optimizing-ux

#llm #ai #chatgpt #openai #claude #anthropic #gemini #ollama #emacs

Messed around with my Emacs-From-Scratch config this evening on my work windows machine. Had real trouble trying to get Magit to work. After a lot of searching online and some digging, I reinstalled and it finally worked. But damn is it slow! I think that was my internet (for some reason being dead slow), but well see. Trying to get the config on git so I can try it on my Linux desktop.

Any advice on using Emacs between Windows and Linux would be appreciated.

#emacs

#emacs pretest for the next minor release.
Emacs pretest 30.1.90
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2025-05/msg00409.html

okay so probably a very dumb question but I've got an html file with <meta property="og:title" content="%s"> amongst other stuff. what I want to do is to substitute that for the title from org-publish-fond-title. How do I go about this?

#Emacs #OrgMode

Crafting my cleric of the church of emacs outfit for the 40th anniversary of @fsf

Laptop shown is from @tuxedocomputers
#fsf #freesoftware #emacs #tuxedocomputers #tuxedo #linux

has anyone figured out how to get open graph tags working with an org-publish project?

#Emacs #OrgMode #Blog

Irreal: Emacs 30.2 Pretest 1 https://irreal.org/blog/?p=12995 #emacs

Even though it was released two months ago I have just realised #MastodonEl 2.0.0 has been released. It is a Mastodon client for #emacs. Looking forward to upgrade mine to current version!!

https://todon.nl/@mousebot/114252030972186444

My YouTube channel where I make videos on Emacs, Linux, Python, BASH and other technology I love, now has 2000 subscribers. Fun!

Check it out and tell me what you think, and if there are videos you'd like to see, give me a shout.

https://youtube.com/@skybert

#emacs #linux #unix #youtube

I somehow rediscovered the game #nethack ."It is not suprising that some #Emacs addicts are also NetHack addicts" [NetHack Wiki https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Emacs]
But today nethack-el is from around 20 years ago. 🤣

#boon is a very underrated modal editing mode for #emacs , in my opinion. It does not try to resemble vim or kakoune, but is its own thing, with some surprising features - double-paste removes unnecessary spaces. You do not know that you need it, but you do!