There are some programs that live in both that and some other directories that
I've added on Windows. This makes sure that the cygwin ones don't overwrite
everything else, since usually I use different versions like MSYS2.
This also brings in marginalia, orderless, consult, and embark.
I've been reading about these projects for a while and after some looking around
it seems like these are at the very least interesting, I'm trying it out for a
while.
I'm so used to using it that I keep forgetting to use ‘M-o’ for ‘ace-window’
instead. By disabling this keybinding I can train myself to use ‘ace-window’.
The big downside of usuing these cookies to inject my configuration into the
loading of a package is that it means that I can't load that package without my
configuration anymore. This means that when I start ‘emacs -Q’ and then call
‘package-initialize’ it'll load my configuration as well. This makes debugging
things very difficult.
- Inhibit the use of the ’ character in case a ' should be used so that spell
checking programs don't get confused.
- Explicitly use the ‘hunspell’ program to perform spell checking.
This package exposes a function ‘insert-char-preview’ that does the same thing
as ‘insert-char’ except that it shows a preview of the character in the
completion.
I liked the idea, but the implementatino was too flakey and didn’t actually let
me do what I wanted to do. The biggest issue was that ‘comment-dwim’ didn’t work
anymore and it got easily confused and screwed up the colors for my mode-line.
At work I have to work with a lot of files that other people work on as well.
Other people don’t usually have their editor set up to remove all trailing
whitespace, and we’re not allowed to make a change that includes a lot of extra
whitespace changes[1]. So I end up having to revert a lot of whitespace changes
just before submitting. And if I then have to make more changes, for example
because something was pointed out in a code review, I have to do it again.
‘ws-butler’ promises that it will still prevent me from submitting extraneous
whitespace, but will not touch lines that I haven’t changed, so that would
prevent me from having to revert them all the time.
[1]: This is good, having a lot of whitespace changes can distract from or even
completely hide the actual change you’re trying to make.
‘recentf-save-list’ sends a message that it’s saving the recentf list, but
seeing that after every time I don’t do something for 10 seconds in Emacs gets a
little annoying.
After watching a YouTube video[1] on managing window layouts in Emacs I was
reminded of ‘winner-mode’ and introduced to the ‘ivy-push-view’ and
‘ivy-switch-view’ commands. As I feel like I frequently end up with setting up
and losing layouts, I think these may be useful.
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyllrQiNsyA
In order to support my tablet which seems to have a lower maximum integer
value (I guess it’s 32-bit? I’m surprised) and can’t handle the version numbers
I was using before. It would turn them into floating point numbers, which adds a
~.0~, this made it impossible to install any package.
Any installations I have will need to reinstall all their oni packages so that
the new version number is picked up, since the new version number will be lower
than the old one.
