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    Comment #49203350

    Maybe the future of anti-phishing training will be random confirmations in the middle of agentic coding session

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    Comment #49203242

    I’m surprised there was so much opposition to adding this. Such is the lifecycle of a conversation in the emacs development mailing list I suppose.

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    Comment #49039006

    Pressing “X” with your point at the file should essentially do this, no? Well, at least give you the option to open said file in an external program. Otherwise, yes, pressing “RET”…

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    Comment #48862476

    There is a decent solution for this, you essentially define your own minor mode with key bindings you want to take precedence. I haven’t tried it myself yet, but seems useful in th…

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    Comment #48786125

    Does the average person know that a physical book they bought can deteriorate with age, and pages can tear or fall out as well? But as long as they have that book in their possessi…

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    Comment #48591658

    I’m curious as to why - is it a matter of stability/feature completeness in 30.2 that you don’t need or want to bother with new releases? Or that you don’t like the direction of th…

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    Comment #48584908

    Wow, auto install treesitter grammars, editable xref, transposing window layouts, speed bar as a side window in frame, I had no idea any of these things were coming and were all so…

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    Comment #48548947

    They probably mean ‘C-x C-Q’, which toggles a buffer with its read-only state. In this case it lets you edit the contents of the dired buffer (i.e directory or file names) to chang…

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    Comment #47988970

    Very cool, thanks for sharing! Definitely something I want to look into doing myself

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    Comment #47968334

    Indeed. I only noticed when trying to pull up Ubuntu docs and getting a 503

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    Comment #47373451

    Wow, thank you, that’ll work perfectly! Of course bug reference mode is built-in, I had no clue (I need to stop being surprised by emacs’ built-in functionalities)

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    Comment #47363254

    Regarding the jira link example, are you using hyperbole buttons for this, or some other way? I’d like to do it without using hyperbole, it’s a nice package and all but the ‘button…

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    Comment #47171666

    This sounds interesting, how are you getting python docs in the `texinfo` format? I’ve used zeal a fair amount or *.read the docs.io, but always looking for local alternatives. A q…

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    Comment #47050259

    Another day, another great Emacs package I’ve just learned about. This one’s going in the init.el for sure!

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    Comment #46840228

    Are you kidding me? This is awesome! I imagine I can try it on my modded 2DS using the DSi emulator

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    Comment #46790584

    I’ll have to see if this can work with a multi band 6 gshock, I assume it’s similar to a standard atomic clock?

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    Comment #46652480

    Thanks for sharing the ppi hint, this helped me out a lot with not having to zoom every app on my 4k monitor!

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