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Emacs Note Taking & Journaling with org-gnosis ...

Emacs As Your Terminal Emulator ...

Emacs 30 Built-in Completion UI & Styles Video notes: When referring to “Emacs Completions”, I refer to Completion Styles & UI I’ve often relied on third-party packages to emulate features from other text editors. For instance, I’ve long used vertico, corfu and orderless. While I still recommend these packages, I became curious about using Emacs without depending on third-party options. My current setup tries to emulate my workflow with the packages mentioned above. The catalyst that pushed me to try the built-in completion is the addition of completion-preview-mode in Emacs 30. Mini-buffer completions Emacs does not enable “vertical” completions for the mini-buffer by default, but you can enable fido-vertical-mode which comes built-in with Emacs. fido-mode is an enhanced icomplete-mode that emulates ido-mode, also referred to as fake ido-mode. Completion Styles Changing completion-styles example: (setf completion-styles '(basic flex)) There is a plethora of completion styles, builtin styles include flex, which provides “fuzzy” completions. Completion UI & Code completions Emacs built-in completions have a distinctive approach. Instead of displaying a popup at point, a new Completions buffer appears when invoking completion-at-point. Example configuration: ...

Installing GNU Guix | Using non-free kernel drivers (Nonguix) ...

I’ve just published a short video covering the basics of RSS, RSS-Bridge & Elfeed, it’s currently available on YouTube. Video notes What is RSS? XML-based web feed that allows users to access updates of websites, without “visiting” the website. Hacktivist including Aaron Swartz contributed to the development of RSS Why use it? Having total control over information you consume Filter/Prioritize content from various sources Bypass algorithms Ad-free reading Offline Access Time saving Allows creation of a personalized & decentralized information hub (+ Emacs RSS) ;; => ’elfeed No matter what RSS reader you choose, they all get the same job done ...

I’ve just uploaded a short video on why I prefer VC over Magit, alongside a quick demo workflow with VC. The video is available on youtube here.