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Integrating Emacs with Siri Shortcuts

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Re: Integrating Emacs with Siri Shortcuts

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Post by tra3 »

This is why I love using emacs. The extensibility is endless, which is of course both a benefit and a liability sometimes.

I've tinkered with my own customizations of course, but can someone recommend a good methodical approach for learning elisp and emacs internals?

Re: Integrating Emacs with Siri Shortcuts

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Post by kwooding »

I was really, really hoping this was about enabling emacs to be scripted via siri shortcuts. (Though this is super useful, too).

Honestly, just being able to set emacs full/split screen via a siri shortcut (and hence, any Shortcut script) would be unbelievably useful for automating pieces of my workflow.

Re: Integrating Emacs with Siri Shortcuts

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Post by ghotli »

kwooding wrote: post #3

I was really, really hoping this was about enabling emacs to be scripted via siri shortcuts. (Though this is super useful, too). Honestly, just being able to set emacs full/split screen via a siri shortcut (and hence, any Shortcut script) would be unbelievably useful for automating pieces of my workflow.

You may find this osx tiler useful. These days I can't live without it and it's been stable for me for quite some time.

https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

Re: Integrating Emacs with Siri Shortcuts

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Post by tra3 »

kwooding wrote: post #3

I was really, really hoping this was about enabling emacs to be scripted via siri shortcuts. (Though this is super useful, too). Honestly, just being able to set emacs full/split screen via a siri shortcut (and hence, any Shortcut script) would be unbelievably useful for automating pieces of my workflow.

You should be able to attach an apple script to a Siri shortcut that runs emacsclient:

/opt/homebrew/bin/emacsclient -e '(toggle-frame-maximized)'

Re: Integrating Emacs with Siri Shortcuts

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Post by pjm331 »

tra3 wrote: post #2

This is why I love using emacs. The extensibility is endless, which is of course both a benefit and a liability sometimes. I've tinkered with my own customizations of course, but can someone recommend a good methodical approach for learning elisp and emacs internals?

I’ve been learning by doing advent of code this year. The ramp up of problem difficulty is nice for general lisp learning, and as I get more comfortable I’ve been stretching out more and more into the emacs specific parts like working with buffers and text properties. Kind of like learning JavaScript first and then getting into the DOM and other browser specific APIs. My main resource has been the emacs lisp manual that ships with emacs.

Re: Integrating Emacs with Siri Shortcuts

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Post by User23 »

tra3 wrote: post #2

This is why I love using emacs. The extensibility is endless, which is of course both a benefit and a liability sometimes. I've tinkered with my own customizations of course, but can someone recommend a good methodical approach for learning elisp and emacs internals?

The official documentation[1] is quite good. An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp[2] is just what it sounds like. It will get you familiar with writing Elisp, using the debugger, and some other basics. At that point, you should be able to navigate the Elisp Reference Manual without too much trouble.

Once you have that foundation, you shouldn't have much trouble scratching whatever itches that arise. The community is thriving so often a web search will return a blog or video explaining how to do exactly what you want. And once you're familiar with it, Elisp is a fairly readable language, so you can learn a lot from looking at the source for other packages to get ideas.

Edit: Sibling comment for Advent of Code is also a solid idea. Arguably Emacs's greatest strength is that it's a fantastic Elisp development environment.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/eintr.html

Re: Integrating Emacs with Siri Shortcuts

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Post by tra3 »

User23 wrote: post #7
tra3 wrote: post #2

This is why I love using emacs. The extensibility is endless, which is of course both a benefit and a liability sometimes. I've tinkered with my own customizations of course, but can someone recommend a good methodical approach for learning elisp and emacs internals?

The official documentation[1] is quite good. An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp [2] is just what it sounds like. It will get you familiar with writing Elisp, using the debugger, and some other basics. At that point, you should be able to navigate the Elisp Reference Manual without too much trouble. Once you have that foundation, you shouldn't have much trouble scratching whatever itches that arise. The comm…

I know I've seen #2 previously but lost it.

Thank you!

Re: Integrating Emacs with Siri Shortcuts

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Post by idle_zealot »

ghotli wrote: post #4
kwooding wrote: post #3

I was really, really hoping this was about enabling emacs to be scripted via siri shortcuts. (Though this is super useful, too). Honestly, just being able to set emacs full/split screen via a siri shortcut (and hence, any Shortcut script) would be unbelievably useful for automating pieces of my workflow.

You may find this osx tiler useful. These days I can't live without it and it's been stable for me for quite some time. https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

Did yabai ever fix native tabs totally breaking your window layout? I really want to use it, but not being able to use terminal or finder tabs with it is a tough sell.
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