Emacs

I've been using gptel for a couple of days and it is absolutely bonkers. It is Magit-level of thought out. However I enjoyed relying less on the transient menu, and rather focus on writing my own wrapper functions via gptel-request.

Honestly I've been kind of an AI skeptic until very recently, and gptel in addition to this article were what pushed me over.

Hello.

I have been using both Neovim and Emacs on and off for about 2 years now, only really getting into both projects around 8 months ago.

After Emacs broke on NixOS (not sure whose fault it was), I didn't want to see Emacs for a while, so I used Neovim and sort of forgot about Emacs, but now that flatpaks broke for me on Fedora a few days ago, and I decided to switch to PopOS where Neovim is a version or two older than the minimum for some plugins. I tried to make it work and failed so I'm back on Emacs.

I even managed to find a fix for an issue I had with the Dashboard Logo.

But I've grown used to the way Neovim does things with Mason, just compiling all language servers automagically.

In short, I couldn't find a way to do that in Emacs and seeing as AI couldn't help me in these endeavours, I decided the best place to ask for help would be here.

I need a way to easily install Language Servers, integrate them with LSP and Auto-Complete mode, and have Emacs or an Emacs package compile and/or install these language servers automatically with no further effort required on my part.

Thank you.

será que não temos pessoas suficientes aqui pra marcar um encontro emacs no brasil? acho que não precisaria nem ser na mesma cidade que todo mundo mora, eu mesmo moro no rio e estaria disposto a ir pra são paulo ou bh, já que são umas 8h de viagem e uns 200 reais ida e volta.

(edit: mods, i'm posting this bc i couldn't find any rules restricting the posts to english only, but i'll remove this post if you're not comfortable with a non-english post)

Casual EditKit is an opinionated Transient-based user interface library for Emacs editing commands.

Github repo: https://github.com/kickingvegas/casual-editkit

This package displays keyword entries from source code comments and Org files in the Magit status buffer. Activating an item jumps to it in its file. By default, it uses keywords from hl-todo, minus a few (like NOTE).

Indent-bars v0.7.4 is now on ELPA

Indent-bars is a fast, configurable indentation guide-bars for Emacs

Company is a text completion framework for Emacs. The name stands for "complete anything". It uses pluggable back-ends and front-ends to retrieve and display completion candidates.

It comes with several back-ends such as Elisp, Clang, Semantic, Ispell, CMake, BBDB, Yasnippet, Dabbrev, Etags, Gtags, Files, Keywords and a few others.

Change log: https://github.com/company-mode/company-mode/blob/master/NEWS.md#2024-09-21-100

Hello, you foolish Emacs-Religion!

I introduced a new employee to the superior editors and provided him an objective opinion of choice between our two Editors. This Fool elected Emacs. Anyhow, I did transfer all my Vim-Config to Emacs and it was working great. But I switched back since there were Scenarios were I definetly knew from my gut I issued the correct evil-mode instructions but somehow Emacs did some fuck-up.

At this point let me tell you that I was so impressed with your capabilties, that I found you guys speaking to me was meant intentionally demoralizing!!1 I also append that due to code quality reasons I transfered to Vim. So my Progress was: Neovim > Emacs > Vim.

I just realized that - maybe - it is about two differing things: The cursor/caret CONSISTENCY and panes (can't refer to a split in your native tongue, sorry).

Both Editors were configured to remember the last caret position. And I suspect both did this, since your Code is written by more proficient developers (my personal studies have shown). And panes are working within my - on-demand - unit teats correctly. But I just switched from a temporary help-pane to my code and realized: My layout wasn't effected, my caret was obv. still at my last editing position and this while I switched from shell to the editor, skipping a pane and rephrasing my own thought while doing this.

My caret is always consistent. Maybe this is something not explicitly tested in your code base. And why I shared it.

Anyhow, your Editor sucks and we will take all of your invention, idiots.

I figure I would share this one more time. The thing is so handy I put it on my desktop but the original is blinding white and 1.5:1 aspect ratio. This is a quick recolor and resize to 16:9. There is a 90px margin on top that is sized for the GNOME header so that the content remains visible. Sorry if this post seems redundant. For me, having this reminder to keep trying to use Emacs is just the motivation I need to open a file in Emacs instead of just using gedit quickly.

::: spoiler bonus tip! On Fedora 40, if you have darkmode set to the default in GNOME, GNU Emacs does not follow the darkmode styling directive for the menu bar. I spent forever trying to make this work in darkmode. If the app is launched using $ GTK_THEME=Adwaita:dark emacs it will start with the menu bar set to dark mode.

However there is a script that actually launches Emacs in /user/bin/emacs-desktop. If you open that file and modify it by adding export GTK_THEME=Adwaita:dark emacs just before the last line, it will launch with darkmode enabled. This is the entire contents of that file:

#!/usr/bin/sh

# The pure GTK build of emacs is not supported on X11, so try to avoid
# using if there is an alternative.

if [ "$XDG_SESSION_TYPE" = 'x11' ]; then
    case "$(readlink -f /usr/bin/emacs)" in
    */emacs-*.*-pgtk)
        if type emacs-gtk+x11 >/dev/null; then
            exec emacs-gtk+x11 "$@"
        elif type emacs-lucid >/dev/null; then
            exec emacs-lucid "$@"
        fi
        ;;
    esac
fi

export GTK_THEME=Adwaita:dark emacs
exec emacs "$@"

I'm not claiming it is the right way. It just worked when I tried it.

Seems helpful for noobs like me.

I felt clunky doing NVIM and could never remember hotkeys for once a week -ish in-situ functional learning. Like I jump in FreeCAD for a few days, come back, and I can't recall a hotkey combo I only used once.

I think I can use Emacs lisp for some actual project goals with AI and other microcontroller projects involving FORTH, that I've never been able to figure out, and code complexity management issues I've never overcome. I still want the menu bar and am really unsure if the evil key bindings are for me. I would probably find it useful if I knew the vim bindings in situations like OpenWRT with busybox only, but it was the extreme complexity of navigating nvim help and key bindings that I found so useless to learn in-situ. Help me navigate this please. I'm being indecisive in a bad way about how to make this pretty, and get it configured.