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Emacs Microfeature

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Re: Emacs Microfeature

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I usually use visual-line-mode and visual-fill-column-mode over hard newlines. But I've always stayed away from hard newlines because I imagined that it would make exporting to another format look janky.

Re: Emacs Microfeature

#4
Is emacs an evolutionary deadend? im looking at LLM-plugins and emac's support for chatgpt is no where near cursor or zed. I kind of want to contribute my own

Re: Emacs Microfeature

#6
And if you do M-q on Lisp source code it automatically reindents it properly. I do this hundreds of times a day. (Or at least I think I do. I think "reindent" and my fingers seem to issue the proper command.)

Re: Emacs Microfeature

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post #8

Why is the example word wrap so bad? It's breaking words in half. No sane editor does it that way.

Emacs word-wrap does it the "sane" way out of the box in 26.3. The current version is 29.3. I tested it with that exact text just now. I doubt it would have gotten worse after 26.3, so something in the author's config or build is probably messing it up. Maybe he's using an even older version. Or maybe he mistakenly doesn't actually have word-wrap set.

Re: Emacs Microfeature

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And if you do M-q on Lisp source code it automatically reindents it properly. I do this hundreds of times a day. (Or at least I think I do. I think "reindent" and my fingers seem to issue the proper command.)

I just highlight code and press tab.

does it do something special?

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