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How do you sync your google calendar with org-agenda?

> Once you hook up elisp evaluating MCP to your Emacs gptel-agent ships with an elisp-eval tool out of the box, BTW.

As a clarification, you don't need elfeed-tube to subscribe to YouTube feeds (channels or playlists) with elfeed, or to watch the videos with mpv. elfeed-tube only adds text to the…

> It needs a far better UX out of the box and by "better" I mean "more aligned with what literally every other program you are likely to use does for UX". (Just enabling cua-mode b…

> In the meantime we're all stuck waiting for package downloads. I use Elpaca instead of the built-in package manager, which is better designed (declarative package specification) …

There's some miscommunication here. > How does eat detect a visual command in eshell? eat-eshell-mode doesn't detect visual commands and launch a separate eat buffer, like eshell-v…

You have to turn on eat-eshell-mode to enable Eat's terminal emulation in eshell. It runs full-fledged TUIs like vim and ncmpcpp in Eshell slowly, but is good enough for quick fzf …

> agentic capabilities are very much on a roll-your-own-in-elisp basis I use gptel-agent[1] when I want agentic capabilities. It includes tools and supports sub-agents, but I haven…

> It's definitely slower when doing any intensive background activities that Emacs would normally offload. Emacs is single threaded and can't offload any elisp code. Even the stuff…

I think Neovim is more flexible -- a plugin you write for neovim can run in the terminal, in any Neovim GUI or in another application (like VSCode) that can embed Neovim.

> pdf-tools in Emacs is much faster pdf-tools is quite slow and a memory hog. emacs-reader is a replacement for it (still in development) that already blows every PDF reader I've e…

> Live preview works for me but only if I first do M-x org-latex-preview, it doesn’t do it automatically. Not an error on your end. Live previews for _new_ fragments are only suppo…

> emacs org-mode: There is no live, inline LaTeX preview. There is, but we haven't managed to merge it into Org mode yet because we (the feature authors) and the Org maintainer hav…

> would be happy if I could also trim the video while I am at it. You can, see the command subed-crop-media-file. https://github.com/sachac/subed/blob/main/subed/subed-common...

Is there _any_ other example? For years now, this is the only one I've ever seen brought up to support this point. On the other side, there are many MacOS-specific features support…

> tried all the fancy context management stuff multiple times, but I mostly just have a chat buffer open and copy paste stuff manually. As of last week you can insert a link to a p…

Do Cursor and co have better tools than the ones we write ourselves for lower-level interfaces like gptel? Or do they work better because they add post-processing layers that verif…

> I would be interested especially in Emacs integrations. gptel can use MCP server tools in Emacs by integrating with the mcp.el package, here's a demo: https://i.imgur.com/WTuhPuk…

I'm curious to know if this is what lproven meant in their comment above. Alt + a-z to access menu items is available in every OS and all "native" apps, but you can't "drive the OS…

> Learn Windows' keyboard UI and you can drive the whole OS and all its apps with the speed of a genius Vim user Do you have a reference for this? I've often needed to control Wind…

> I read some arguments against moving emacs to a multithreaded model, but I don't really remember them. Everyone including the maintainers would like this to happen. The arguments…

> It's the one powerful feature that has yet to be replicated in Emacs. Emacs cannot do this. There are many Emacs libraries or packages that need this feature (Org babel is a big …

You didn't mention a mobile app or cloud sync as one of your priorities, so any offline, desktop RSS feeder should provide most of these features. I use Elfeed in Emacs, which sati…

Removing the interpreter lock for a few specialized tasks (without sweeping runtime changes to Emacs) would be enough to fix most of these issues -- parsing JSON from process outpu…

> Something this old shouldn't have this property. It's not an accident -- reading through the emacs-devel mailing list, it's easy to see how much effort the maintainers pour into …