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Young people.

Keyboards of early MIT systems[1] and Lisp Machines[2] had brackets (parentheses) and square brackets on the same key where square brackets and curly brackets are on modern keyboar…

I don’t think EWW has ever made my Emacs crash. I wanna say I’ve been using it regularly since Emacs 27.

It must have sent it differently if the browser reports it can’t do JavaScript.

It rendered perfectly, without JavaScript, in Emacs EWW.

The two previous comments in this thread are referencing Emacs Org mode's markup syntax.

It would be simpler to switch to GUI Emacs, where EWW can natively show pictures.

> the shell is easier to script than writing Lisp My points were, first, Dired is easier than the shell for 99% of file management, as it’s a graphical file manager with many advan…

If you prefer the command-line and Unix shell, that’s one thing, but it’s no more “flexible or scriptable” than Emacs and Lisp. Dired can filter files with regexp; you can even fal…

It’s unnatural to put the flags after the command. But sometimes I remember I’ve to use a flag after I’ve entered the input; other times, I notice a flag’s omission after executing…

Aren’t Hangul consonants joined with vowels to create syllabic blocks? Is that still an alphabet? It seems different to the distinct characters for letters and vowels that the Lati…

United States dollars are the de facto global currency. I can see a British person converting pounds to US dollars writing for a global audience.

I don’t get it, they named every major smartphone maker (“Samsung, Xiaomi, Motorola, Vivo, Lenovo and Realme”) excluding Apple—if everyone gets to do exclusive launches, isn’t that…

You’re old

> … getting users hooked on to the extra features and switching to some propreitary backend … If they do, they’ll have to bridge it to Matrix. The entire point of a Matrix messenge…

The problem with bootloaders is they really can’t spare a lot of storage. Storing different QR codes for all the common errors might be asking too much.

If they only have dozens of people after centuries of non-Western culture, that to me sounds like tradition hasn’t been going well for them anyway /s

Good thing nearly none of us here have signed that NDA.

I just liked the definition of DWIM in that article. I don’t think DWIM operates in Emacs Lisp the way it did in Interlisp, and zygospore’s not exactly a good example, but I’ve com…

> … c-u c-x 1 would be consistent. It seems like a Vim or a Kakoune thing to get stuck up attaching strict logic to the “command language”. Lisps have a concept of do-what-I-mean (…

That’s good enough for me, I’ll check Mirrorshades out, thanks so much!

Thanks! I’ll check it out along with what the original commenter guessed the book was. At worst, Little Brother will have similar themes.

Do you remember the name of that story?

Formally, that should be “St John St.”

So is Aboriginal: https://github.com/landley/aboriginal/commit/cfb7977cc32a80b...