Ask HN: What's the weirdest/best thing you've done with Emacs? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What's the weirdest/best thing you've done with Emacs?

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Post by mattplm » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 2:28 PM UTC

shakow wrote: post #34

mattplm wrote: post #21

I don't think it's really weird but using it as an http rest client for testing apis with restclient.el Postman frustrated me because it was taking up all the memory on my computer to do really simple calls. I remembered the "emacs rocks" episode on restclient and gave it a shot. Such a nice package. Really unfortunate that the maintainer doesn't update the melpa package.

> Really unfortunate that the maintainer doesn't update the melpa package. Last MELPA update is 05/11; did I miss something?

Melpa package still misses restclient-jq.el AFAICT, the receipe for the package is not correct. Seemed to work at some point since someone merged a PR about that.

Re: Ask HN: What's the weirdest/best thing you've done with Emacs?

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Post by schmudde » Wed, Jul 14, 2021, 5:28 AM UTC

mattplm wrote: post #21

I don't think it's really weird but using it as an http rest client for testing apis with restclient.el Postman frustrated me because it was taking up all the memory on my computer to do really simple calls. I remembered the "emacs rocks" episode on restclient and gave it a shot. Such a nice package. Really unfortunate that the maintainer doesn't update the melpa package.

I use emacs restclient as well. It's not just good - it keeps you in the flow. No context switching to a different environment, just a quick cut 'n paste of the path and data you're working on.

Re: Ask HN: What's the weirdest/best thing you've done with Emacs?

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Post by foobarbaz33 » Fri, Jul 16, 2021, 6:38 PM UTC

jetti wrote: post #39

foobarbaz33 wrote: post #4

Maybe not so amazing, or even Emacs specific. But I use a text file to store my browser bookmarks. I type a brief description above each url. I can add search tags. description blah blah blah tags: programming performance http://some_url_foobar I view the file with Emacs mode goto-address-mode . So all the hyperlinks are clickable with the mouse or a keybind. I can run M-x occur . To search and get a nice list of mat…

Do you use org mode at all?

No I don't use org. I find it too slow to load on my computer. Up to 30 seconds load time for a feature defeats the advantages of a lightweight text format.

Re: Ask HN: What's the weirdest/best thing you've done with Emacs?

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Post by riaandewit » Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 6:09 PM UTC

At this one job I had, the org basically ran on stored procedures. Like thousands of them. So I whipped up a couple of functions and keybindings so if the cursor was on the name of a stored proc, I could surf to it. And then back and so on. Basically, it was a stored proc browser!