This month marks my 20th anniversary of using emacs. I started using it at a summer science program because the tutors recommended it to write our papers. I persisted because a good friend told me earnestly that "emacs is the best text editor in the world", even though I didn't know what "text editor" meant back then.
I don't know if that statement is true, but I've never felt the need to switch. Because... well, every time there is something I want my text editor to do, there has been a way to do it in emacs, and so much more besides.
Twisted's coding standard for our #ReStructuredText files is to use what we have termed "semantic newlines". That is to say: every sentence is on its own line. In principle, I like this. It means smaller, more readable diffs, and less pointless churn. In practice, with my #Emacs fill-paragraph muscle memory, it is a *constant* frustrating exercise where I'm tripping over myself and either constantly re-wrapping and then manually un-wrapping, or forgetting to wrap at all.
@hairylarry@screwlisp Note: vi foo.lisp hjkl move the cursor. i goes into insert mode. ESC (the key) leaves insert mode. Go ahead and hit it a couple times so it beeps, that's how you know you're in command mode. :w to write. :wq to write & quit. Can you guess how to quit without writing? :q!
You now have more productivity than emacs! #vi#vim#emacs
@hairylarry I remember that this happens on some operating systems the first time you use it, because I think you don't have the current public key until the first time you update or something. Hopefully someone reading this has encountered this recently <_> #emacs
@fsf Would love to, but I'm just a newbie managing and publishing his digital garden through #OrgMode, a stupid #CSS and the power of #Emacs. Nothing new and nothing that anyone won't be able to do.
Have you learned something exciting about #Emacs or used it for something interesting? Share your knowledge at #EmacsConf 2025! Submit your proposal by Friday, September 19, 2025: https://u.fsf.org/486
PROBLEM: trying to search for text in #orgmode while ignoring invisible formatting characters.
The evil-search-forward function invokes isearch-forward function, but it doesn't matter how many times i toggle that searching for "this and that" never matches "this /and/ that" even though the formatting slashes are currently invisible.
Anyone know what Magic incantation I need to perform?
I think some people do either end up not using slime, or not using sbcl’s ext:save-lisp-and-die to save and resume their universe lisp image core when they are using slime. When you should use both.
Wrote a blogpost about simple (I mean with a shell and a text editor) #X11 configuration.
Covered topics: 1) #Trackball configuration for left hand. Also remapping of some buttons to have scrolling and middle button (not exists out of the box). 2) Theming: #GTK2#GTK3#QT , installing cursor(s), fonts and icons. 3) #Xrandr for multimonitor configuration 4) #Xserver settings for #HighDPI 5) #XDG utils and #Emacs as a system file manager 6) #XDM login window
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Eugene 
