Notices by Charles Choi 최 민수 (kickingvegas@sfba.social)

Yer, Asianometry takes on the history of #Lisp machines.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sV7C6Ezl35A&si=BlEgvN9cdh-_zHNP

#Emacs adjacent.

@jwo NGL, as a decades-long user of #Emacs I loathe long bindings. It’s a big driver for why I wrote Casual. https://github.com/kickingvegas/casual

Yep, I'm done with Meta.

http://yummymelon.com/devnull/leaving-instagram.html

Tomorrow, annual #sanfrancisco MLK march. Meet at the SF Caltrain station on 4th. March starts at 11am. See you there! https://norcalmlkfoundation.org/mlkcelebration/mlk2025/2025-mlk-march/

I wish Transit built a macOS native app with widget support.

TIL upcase-initials-region.

#emacs

Has anybody written something akin to "Modern Elisp: The Good Parts" or "Elisp for Python Programmers"? If not, perhaps somebody should…
#Emacs

These three links have informed a lot of my thinking of late on writing Elisp, which I am admittedly novice at. The quoted paragraph in the first link on the chaos of using a map-style (key, value) collection is especially resonant to me. I personally don't care to please old Elisp heads who say we should only use builtins. I want to use conventional abstractions that are shared among the languages I know like Python, Swift, JavaScript, and Java.

https://www.murilopereira.com/emacs-from-catching-up-to-getting-ahead#5-emacs-lisp-improvements

https://lmno.lol/alvaro/modern-elisp-libraries

https://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2013/03/31/essential-elisp-libraries/

Different Emacs modes prefer different movement. I share some thoughts on this, particularly with regards to minibuffer movement.

http://yummymelon.com/devnull/rethinking-minibuffer-movement.html

#Emacs

Casual v2.2.5 update now available on MELPA. Adds support for text reformatting commands (fill, center, repunctuate), common editor settings, and changes the % key in the Calc main menu to do the sensible thing and compute a percentage. More info at the link attached.

https://github.com/kickingvegas/casual/discussions/115

@screwtape tuned in!

My EmacsConf 2024 talk, “Re-imagining the Emacs User Experience with Casual Suite” is now available online. Stream it here: https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/casual/

#emacsconf #emacs

@skinnylatte Fair. I’d note that many places only specialize in one dish back there.

@skinnylatte you really feel like instigating tonight, don't you?

Nice shout out from Irreal. Hope my #EmacsConf talk on Casual this Saturday doesn't disappoint!

https://irreal.org/blog/?p=12620

#Emacs

#Emacs definitely has that "we found this derelict spaceship and somehow we got it to fly" energy.