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My Emacs eye candy
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#12It would be cool to have Emacs doing rendering on the GPU via a OpenGL/WebGL/WebGPU binding.
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#13Pro tip: it's easy to replace nyan cat with a different image. My kids liked Twilight Sparkle.
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#14Colors are surprisingly helpful! Vim+Python might be more popular than Emacs+Lisp, so here's my rainbow mode plugin to help with Tabs: https://github.com/csdvrx/indent-rainbow
Cool! I like the monochrome gradient variant!
I like colors ... except when I don't and I've found black and white to be helpful for concentration!
So my vim theme has 2 modes: color and monochrome (based on bold/underline/italics)
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#15Emacs users: how good is ChatGPT in creating emacs config files? (I can't assess it myself myself because .el files are at the sorcery level too high for Rincewind-like skills.)
You have to fill in some gaps (and occasional paranthesis) but it’s pretty darn good at writing elisp for improving your config. I find it’s helpful enough that you can take on medium hanging fruit that you wouldn’t attempt otherwise.
For example, I wrote a minor mode for centering text, an org-export backend for Notion, and some plumbing for chatgpt-shell.
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#16I want to switch to one of those Emacs candy looking setup, but it always ends up being a lot less fun once you have it installed and nothing works as you expects, the whole thing looks like grand father software and the UX is beyond bad.
Sure, if you put up with the pain of setting it all up, eventually, you have something that works and that only you can use.
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#17Emacs users: how good is ChatGPT in creating emacs config files? (I can't assess it myself myself because .el files are at the sorcery level too high for Rincewind-like skills.)
GPT-4 is generally excellent. If you have errors, you can often ask it to fix them. GPT-3.5 is not so good.
I recently asked GPT-4 to write an elisp function that would automatically query GPT using an openai client and insert a docstring written by GPT for any Python function under the point. It worked on the first try!
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#18I want to switch to one of those Emacs candy looking setup, but it always ends up being a lot less fun once you have it installed and nothing works as you expects, the whole thing looks like grand father software and the UX is beyond bad. Sure, if you put up with the pain of setting it all up, eventually, you have something that works and that only you can use.
Spacemacs has decent defaults, is easily extendable, and looks pretty good too.
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#19Thanks for sharing
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#20I want to switch to one of those Emacs candy looking setup, but it always ends up being a lot less fun once you have it installed and nothing works as you expects, the whole thing looks like grand father software and the UX is beyond bad. Sure, if you put up with the pain of setting it all up, eventually, you have something that works and that only you can use.
Is that a criticism of “candy looking setups” or emacs more generally? Your comment feels needlessly derisive.
> eventually, you have something that works and that only you can use
This criticism doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. You do a lot of keyboard sharing? Who else needs to use Your editor?