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by willow
Wed Aug 28, 2024 11:34 pm
Forum: /general
Topic: emacs thread
Replies: 12
Views: 63587

Re: emacs thread


...and im curious what keeps people away from using it


it's a few things. when you write everything in your init.el it's more easily portable to other systems. you don't need to manually reinstall every external package if you manage it all in a bunch of (use-package) blocks. and if you're ...
by willow
Sat Aug 24, 2024 4:55 pm
Forum: /general
Topic: emacs thread
Replies: 12
Views: 63587

Re: emacs thread

whoa that's a wild thing to do with vi.

i'd never really considered changing the stock vi keybindings because it seemed like way too much stuff revolves around them being the stock ones. does it work well? or do you end up having to rebind the whole world?

now that i think about it, i never really ...
by willow
Sat Aug 24, 2024 2:08 am
Forum: /general
Topic: emacs thread
Replies: 12
Views: 63587

emacs thread

are any of the paraloguers emacs users? do you use org-mode? do you do anything unique with it?

if you've never really given it a good go, i really highly recommend everyone lives in it for a month to see what the fuss is about.

my history with emacs
i've had a whole journey with text editors in ...
by willow
Tue Aug 06, 2024 2:09 pm
Forum: /general
Topic: Share your desktops / backgrounds
Replies: 8
Views: 51789

Re: Share your desktops / backgrounds

some person on /r/unixporn recently made a go program that maps a color scheme onto an image for use as a background, but i couldn't get it to compile on my guixsd machine.

i spent the last few days learning some more common lisp and reimplementing their super simple algorithm. rn the program has ...
by willow
Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:16 am
Forum: /media
Topic: Form factor?
Replies: 11
Views: 63379

ive been a computer desktop gamer my whole life and probably won't switch to anything else. if i'm going to sit down and play a game, i'm not going to want it to quickly distract me, i want it to immerse me. games that can be picked up and put down really quickly tend not to really be my thing ...
by willow
Sun Apr 28, 2024 1:26 am
Forum: /general
Topic: hello world
Replies: 36
Views: 140549

this is the first thread on paralogue! just wanted to say hi and ask how's everyone's day is going. or just feel free to check in and tell a story. it is up to u :)