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Whenever Katy tells me "I have an idea but you're not going to like it" she's usually right.
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In other news, my workspace is moving to another room in the apartment.

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Well, everything's mostly set up. Cable management needs some definite work, but at least the layout of my desk is more or less unchanged.

The new arrangement makes more logistical sense, but will require some getting used to. Just about every room in the apartment's been rearranged.



So, I've made the typo "tje" enough times now that my phone's keyboard has stopped correcting it (and even on occasion correcting to it).


elisp shenanigans
I just put a call to format inside my call to format. This is probably fine, right?
#emacs #elisp
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elisp shenanigans

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elisp shenanigans
@Alex I'll have a look. Worst case scenario is that I have to roll my own.
@Alex


Katy's been down a YouTube rabbit hole on $medical_condition lately. Today we watched a yoga video that purported to relieve one of the symptoms. Cool cool, yoga can have benefits. Let's give it a go. Some of the instructions in this video were oddly specific but whatever, that's fine. Then we read the comments and my cult alarm started blaring.

This was a video with millions of views and an untold number of comments. Some of them were downright scary in their praise for this guy* and there wasn't a single remotely negative comment to be found.

Not one. I looked.

Someone is really dedicated to sliencing dissent on this video, and I can't imagine that being anything shy of a full-time job. That is probably one of the most massive red flags there is.

* e.g.: "Who needs western medicine? $youtuber is always the answer."



They told me no spicy foods until tomorrow, but the curry in my fridge is beckoning...

It's not that spicy. Should I?

I probably shouldn't, right?

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Having been through many colonoscopies and colon cancer surgery last year my tendency is to trust "them".


One thing I like about running #Debian is that when some project adds something that people don't like, I get plenty of heads up before that version actually hits the official Debian repos. 🙃

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while the recursive name certainly helps, pizza developers use proprietary ingredients while mac and cheese development is fully free. The source code is in the name!

Although you could argue that Kraft Dinner is proprietary, but that's like a proprietary version of UNIX. People just go to it for nostalgia knowing it's way outdated, and any attempt to replicate it will give a better result.



ph

Taking my first dose of one of the drugs I was instructed to take before my procedure tomorrow.

How am I supposed to take this again?

*reads prescription label*

"Take as directed"

Thanks. 🙃




ph
Going in for a medical procedure (probably nothing to be worried about) that's going to require me to start a clear liquid diet tomorrow morning. It's gonna suck, but at least 12 years as a Mormon taught me how to deal with being hungry for an extended period (because fasting). I made sure to eat well for my last meal tonight though.
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ph (possible TMI - you've been warned)

So the procedire in question is a colonoscopy. In addition to the diet they've also prescribed laxatives. I just took the first dose a short while ago. Apparently these things work fast.

It's going to be an interesting night.

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ph (possible TMI - you've been warned)

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ph (possible TMI - you've been warned)
Mercifully, I mostly slept through the night. This morning though... let's just say I shan't be leaving the apartment for any reason.


Another #elisp question: Why does #Emacs have separate bits for the meta key (2**27) and alt (2**22)? Aren't they the same key, or is it a remapping thing like the ESC prefix?
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Meta and ALT are not the same key.
The original keyboards used long ago had Ctrl, Super, Hyper, Meta, and ALT keys. We now map Meta (i.e. ESC) to the Alt key on our keyboards as a convenience. I do not believe there is a way, on modern keyboards, to have both META and ALT mapped to a key. We can have Super, and Meta. I can't recall if I was able to map Hyper on a modern keyboard.


Why would anyone think that an industry whose motto is "go fast and break things" could be trusted to make self-driving cars?



Wow, I was on YouTube for a bit today and their ad targeting is just actively trash now.
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@nieuemma Yeah, I've used such solutions on and off. They're great until Google intentionally breaks them, at which point I go back to the official client and forget about the alternatives by the time they're fixed. 🙃
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I haven't had that happen yet. One stops working and I move on to another one so far, which is maybe only a couple of months, at least one has worked for me.


elisp nonsense

I've been playing around with keymaps. Apparently they can be used to create menus that give the user a visual list of options. The canonical way to make them is aparently with make-sparse-keymap to create the menu and define-key to add options to it, but this causes some confusing behaviour.

Take the following example:

(let ((menu (make-sparse-keymap "My menu")))
  (define-key menu "a"
    '(menu-item "Foo" foo))
  (define-key menu "b"
    '(menu-item "Bar" bar))
  menu)

Yields the following:
(keymap (98 menu-item "Bar" bar) (97 menu-item "Foo" foo) "My menu")

Each new entry is added to the top of the list, so when the menu is displayed, they're listed in reverse order. This is very counter intuitive.

Now, I understand that the nature of lists in lisp make inserting an element at the top of the list less computationally expensive, but when you've already got to walk the whole list anyway to ensure the key binding isn't already present, this no longer feels like an adequate excuse.

Am I missing something?

#emacs #elisp

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Define key is my least favorite way to make a keymap.

I like defvar-keymap, bind-keys, if you've got a map create already. Like a sparce map.

General is nice too. But then you have to have that installed.

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I think you've got it right. Many who write lisp think of adding to the head of the list as normal, even if they still have to walk it for things like uniqueness checks.


I virtually never set custom keybindings in #Emacs preferring instead to rely on M-x function calls because I had such a hard time finding key sequences that weren't used by something else. Since learning that C-c /[A-Za-z]/ is reserved for user-defined keybindings, I've gone mad with power.

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@Lens @Robert Pluim 🇪🇺 On my system C-z suspends Emacs and drops me back to the terminal until I issue the fg command to bring it back. I use this for issuing git commands. I could probably do this from within Emacs, but I haven't bothered to figure it out.
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@rpluim magit is a pretty awesome git porcelain I think you'd like. It's shipped with emacs by default
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@lens_r Another option is to run a shell within Emacs. I happen to like vterm, but there's term, eat, eshell and more
@Lens
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@lens_r magit is awesome, but it's not part of standard Emacs. VC is, but that's not as good as magit for git (it's great however when you're forced to use some other version control system like CVS, since VC provides bindings that work whatever the underlying system is)
@Lens

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