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I used standard Emacs extension-points to extend org-mode

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 14:53:33

Recently I read this beginners guide to extend Emacs. The guide is perfect for starting out with elisp and it shows a lot of care in teaching how to interact with Emacs. To me, the most important bit though is this one, from the section aptly named Emacs Wants You to Extend It. I haven’t written plugins for other editors extensively, but I can tell you this: emacs doesn’t just make deep customization available, but it actively encourages you to make an absolute customization messes masterpiece

Topics: emacs mode option org sort
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Emacs: A Paradigm Shift

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 00:53:33

Recently I read this beginners guide to extend Emacs. The guide is perfect for starting out with elisp and it shows a lot of care in teaching how to interact with Emacs. To me, the most important bit though is this one, from the section aptly named Emacs Wants You to Extend It. I haven’t written plugins for other editors extensively, but I can tell you this: emacs doesn’t just make deep customization available, but it actively encourages you to make an absolute customization messes masterpiece

Topics: emacs mode option org sort
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A beginner's guide to extending Emacs

news.ycombinator.com Tyler Langlois 2025-10-02 20:32:11

With that prelude out of the way, let's begin. Inside of emacs you can call up a list of potential completions by using the keyboard shortcut M-. (that’s "hit the meta key along with period", where "meta" is the Alt key for me). This applies in a wide variety of scenarios, like when completing class names or variables. If we want to ask emacs to hand us a list of potential references, then the system we want to hook into is this completions system. (This is the only time I'll assume we know wh

Topics: completion emacs function list point
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A Beginner's Guide to Extending Emacs

news.ycombinator.com Tyler Langlois 2025-10-03 01:32:11

With that prelude out of the way, let's begin. Inside of emacs you can call up a list of potential completions by using the keyboard shortcut M-. (that’s "hit the meta key along with period", where "meta" is the Alt key for me). This applies in a wide variety of scenarios, like when completing class names or variables. If we want to ask emacs to hand us a list of potential references, then the system we want to hook into is this completions system. (This is the only time I'll assume we know wh

Topics: completion emacs function list point
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My other email client is a daemon

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-08 06:54:06

I have a slight problem wherein every time I start up a game of NetHack, I completely loose touch with my surroundings for hours on end. Thankfully The DevTeam Thinks Of Everything and there’s a solution that allows communication with the outside world without breaking immersion: the mail daemon! If compiled with -DMAIL and OPTIONS=mail is set in your runtime configuration (the default on Linux), NetHack will periodically check a user specified mbox file ( MAIL ) for new mail, and upon receivin

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Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-19 22:46:22

Nyxt: the Emacs-like web browser Did you know...? LWN.net is a subscriber-supported publication; we rely on subscribers to keep the entire operation going. Please help out by buying a subscription and keeping LWN on the net. Nyxt is an unusual web browser that tries to answer the question, "what if Emacs was a good web browser?". Nyxt is not an Emacs package, but a full web browser written in Common Lisp and available under the BSD three-clause license. Its target audience is developers who wa

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Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-02 11:20:51

Efrit - AI-Powered Emacs Coding Assistant A sophisticated AI coding agent that leverages Emacs' native programmability through direct Elisp evaluation. Overview Efrit is a conversational AI assistant that integrates seamlessly with Emacs, providing multiple interfaces for different types of tasks: efrit-chat - Multi-turn conversational interface for complex discussions and code development - Multi-turn conversational interface for complex discussions and code development efrit-do - Natural

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Emacs: The macOS Bug

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 03:15:35

Emacs: The MacOS Bug The Context I have been recently roaming. Doing some Zig, doing some Go, some Janet. Some C integration. Should have focused on my project but life threw more at me than I could handle, so I sought… happy distractions. My experience with those technologies taught me new tricks and one day, when I needed some more distraction, I decided to debug something that had made me furious for years: Emacs jank. Whatever build I tried, whatever configuration I used, Emacs always r

Topics: code emacs frame macos memory
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Extending Emacs with Fennel (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-06 08:54:21

After watching this year’s EmacsConf and seeing Guile Emacs being resurrected I thought to myself - why limit ourselves to Guile? Sure, Guile isn’t just a Scheme implementation, thanks to its compiler-tower-based design. Other languages exist for Guile VM, such as Emacs Lisp, and Guile manual lists the following languages with various stages of completeness: ECMAScript Brainfuck Lua Ruby Python Sure, it would be nice, if Emacs could natively run all of these, but we have to understand, tha

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Jove (Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 14:35:37

JOVE (Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs)[1] is an open-source, Emacs-like text editor, primarily intended for Unix-like operating systems. It also supports MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. JOVE was inspired by Gosling Emacs but is much smaller and simpler, lacking Mocklisp. It was originally created in 1983 by Jonathan Payne while at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in Massachusetts, United States on a PDP-11 minicomputer.[2] JOVE was distributed with several releases of BSD Unix, including 2.9BS

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Take Two: Eshell

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-04 05:58:09

30 Jun 2025 Charles Choi This is a contribution to the Emacs Carnival 2025-06: Take Two collection of posts on Christian Tietze’s blog. My first take with Eshell many years back did not leave a good impression. My early expectations was that it should act like any other shell, only to be unpleasantly surprised by it. It took a long time for me to warm up to Eshell. Upon reflection, it was because I wasn’t ready for it. Now Eshell is an inseparable part of my Emacs experience. Paradoxically th

Topics: elisp emacs eshell file run
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