It always makes me smile that lispers use the term "earmuffs" to refer to variables named *foo*.
https://lisp-lang.org/style-guide/#variables
As far as I'm aware this particular name isn't used in other communities. Paired * is rare elsewhere, but lisp programmers are no stranger to paired syntax!
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I'm not sure if I should use the term "text diff" or "textual diff" to refer to a conventional, line-oriented diff of text in difftastic.
Any opinions? Which seems clearer to you?
I'm never sure what to name my remotes in git. I tend to use 'mine' so I can add other forks later, but sometimes I use 'gh' or the traditional 'origin'.
What do others use?
I'm pretty impressed with Cursor: I've successfully asked it to perform codebase transforms in English, and it's worked!
E.g. "Replace all calls foo(..., true) with foo_immediate(...) define a foo_immediate function".
I'm still reading the diff and checking tests -- it's still AI after all.