miniblog.

Dec 11, 2015 at 14:57

Emacs tip: if you have a great keyboard macro, but always do the same thing after, you can extend it. C-u F3.

May 4, 2023 at 15:34

I certainly see the appeal of ChatGPT as a conversational interface for knowledge questions, but it's wrong often enough that I can't trust it. Prompt: What does :extend do to an Emacs font face? This is wrong (it's confused with :inherit) and it's hallucinated a version constraint.

Feb 19, 2023 at 04:09

The Zen of Emacs, and the ability to extend *anything* incrementally, contrasted with VS Code design principles:

A spiritual successor to Emacs

I’ve been writing Python since version 1.5.2, and I think Guido von Rossum is one of the best language designers of our time, but I was a bit taken aback when on a recent Lex Fridman podcast he said, “To me, VS Code, in a sense, is a spiritual successor to Emacs.” His rationale for that claim: The key part of Emacs is that it’s mostly written in Lisp … There’s a core implementation that can read the file, put bits on the screen, and manage memory and buffers. Then, what makes it an editor full of features is all the lisp packages and, of course, the design of how the lisp packages interact with each other and with that base layer of the core immutable engine.

Jul 4, 2019 at 00:09

Commonmark.js has a lovely feature that's rare in markdown renderers: it exposes an AST! https://github.com/commonmark/commonmark.js/#usage This makes it so much easier to extend/modify the syntax in a robust manner.

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