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Re: EmacsConf 2022

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Post by agumonkey »

hprotagonist wrote: post #36
agumonkey wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm shocked that ast based edition is back. Many people were against this, lots of grammar based tools sadly failed (for better or worse reasons). In a way it seems that the mainstream rose above regex level tree manipulation, and that even html/css made people start to think in subtrees rather than linear data. This might reduce efforts a lot, whether it is for edition or analysis. And this fine grained source inter…

tangentially related, https://hazel.org/

Thanks a lot :)

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Post by velox_neb »

spenrose wrote: post #10

As with the high vote totals for Firefox-related links, the presence of a link on an ancient* text editor at #1 on HN (as I write) reveals that HN voters are a bit ... old school. These tools' relative importance has declined over the last 15 years. * (I am a graybeard who used Emacs daily for a long time)

The very fact that Emacs is so ancient makes me feel comfortable investing in it. If I extend and reconfigure it heavily, my setup will probably be usable for the rest of my life. Emacs will always be around.

Meanwhile, VSCode will be replaced by some new hotness in a few years, and anyone who invests heavily in the perfect VSCode setup will lose all their work.

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Post by shunqor »

tmtvl wrote: post #34
Wonnk13 wrote: post #3

Good to know! For as much as I use Emacs I don’t really follow the Emacs community / ecosystem. I saw version 29 was recently cut- is there anywhere I can get a good overview of “best practices in 2022”? I wouldn’t mind dusting off my init.el and updating it. I haven’t had a good yak shave in five years or so :)

The best way to set keybindings has been changed, from define-key and global-set-key to keymap-set and keymap-global-set . Some examples: (keymap-global-set " " #'upcase-dwim) (keymap-set icomplete-minibuffer-map "TAB" #'icomplete-force-complete) You can also use package.el to install packages from version control now, check the package-vc-selected-packages variable.

Heloo may name thz shunqor

Re: EmacsConf 2022

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Post by ReneFroger »

Wonnk13 wrote: post #3

Good to know! For as much as I use Emacs I don’t really follow the Emacs community / ecosystem. I saw version 29 was recently cut- is there anywhere I can get a good overview of “best practices in 2022”? I wouldn’t mind dusting off my init.el and updating it. I haven’t had a good yak shave in five years or so :)

Not to spamming, but https://emacs.zeef.com was a valuable resource for me to find many Emacs packages and communities to my liking.
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