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.
