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At first I thought that sounded great, but then I realized that that would exclude files that I want to be backed up, like `dir-locals-2.el`, which should be excluded from git, but…

On GNU ELPA: https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/listen.html This package aims to provide a simple audio/music player for Emacs. It should “just work,” with little-to-no configuration, h…

> The official spec is a combination of hundreds of tiny specs and extensions, akin to XMPP. You could say the same thing about any specification that involved multiple features. >…

> Matrix has a billion different standards There is one specification, available on the official site. It isn't, and never will be, required to implement all of it. > a complex mes…

Wow, Brian, funny running into you here after all these years! You may remember me as a guy who ran the site for you for a year or two when you needed a break. You also helped me g…

Here's a library for writing such classification systems in Emacs Lisp: https://github.com/alphapapa/taxy.el Especially, see this example: https://github.com/alphapapa/taxy.el#spor…

Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad they're useful to you. org-ql is a search tool. It provides an alternative to some parts of org-agenda and integrates with it to some extent. It…

I'm not sure what you mean, but maybe this is what you're looking for: https://github.com/alhassy/org-special-block-extras

I collect some Org resources here: https://alphapapa.github.io/org-almanac/

See https://github.com/alphapapa/org-ql , which can be used to select entries with a SQL-like language, and then you can do whatever you like with the results.

> org-agenda is not fast enough, and is practically unusable with more than a few tens of files. Please see https://github.com/alphapapa/org-ql , which implements agenda-like views…

See also https://github.com/alphapapa/org-ql which supports org-super-agenda grouping.

> But I get the vibe that we won't be seeing a client I like anytime soon; or it'll be a very minimalistic client with no support for all the fancy modern features, in which case I…

> As for the first point, fine grained control for what goes into a commit, that's definitely a power user feature, but an important one of course. It's not a power-user feature, a…

As active as you are in the Emacs community, you ought to know that there is a steady stream of commits to "core." Anyway, if that's not enough for you, maybe you could allocate so…

> as well as red-squiggle-style linting tools like flymake, flycheck, and LSP-related tools.

> In fact, I would have to look up how to even "reopen" an Emacs bug, it is not very clear to users, and this makes it especially frustrating if issues are closed without solution.…

> Web tech gives you a greater degree of control: e.g., Emacs Lisp cannot put red sqiggles under text like VSCode does, but rather limits the user interface essentially to one larg…

The question is almost like asking a fish to describe water. It's the sudden lack of it that produces a really clear example. :) Anyway, here's a random example that comes to mind:…

Pandoc can read from and export to Org format. As well, there are a number of Org parsing libraries in other languages; see https://alphapapa.github.io/org-almanac/#Parsing

FYI, there are a variety of Org parsing libraries outside of Emacs. Some of them even appear to be robust and well-developed. I collected a list here: https://alphapapa.github.io/o…

> trying to search myriad org agenda files for an ID or text search (e.g. org rifle) will basically lock up emacs. Please try `org-ql` and `helm-org-ql`; these newer search tools p…

If you're on Linux, libeatmydata might help reduce the number of writes hitting the SSD.

Also: $ cat ~/bin/dired #!/bin/bash # Launch Dired in a plain Emacs configuration. # Arguments are passed to Emacs, e.g. "-nw" works as expected. emacs -q "$@" \ --eval "(dired def…

Buffers and strings with range-indexed metadata is also how Emacs's text properties work. For example, this shows the print syntax for strings with properties: (concat (propertize …