[HN Gopher] Emacs: A Basic and Capable Configuration
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       Emacs: A Basic and Capable Configuration
        
       Author : donatzsky
       Score  : 60 points
       Date   : 2024-11-28 16:37 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (protesilaos.com)
        
       | sourcepluck wrote:
       | Prot continuing to be thorough in his work, write clearly, and
       | produce very useful stuff for Emacs operators. This guide looks
       | very interesting (even for slightly-above-beginner Emacsers like
       | myself).
        
       | gnuhack wrote:
       | It's great to see Prot over here! His work it's top notch, I've
       | learnt a lot with him. Also it has really affordable Emacs
       | coaching sessions.
        
       | setopt wrote:
       | A lot of this should be made into Emacs default settings. (Like
       | the others, I'm happy to see posts by Prot as usual.)
        
       | drfiresign wrote:
       | I've only been using Emacs for 7 or 8 years, but in my admittedly
       | limited experience, Protesilaos has singlehandedly done more to
       | bring more people into the community than anyone. He's been a
       | huge advocate for composability in packages, through use of the
       | core Emacs functions, allowing incredible flexibility without
       | being locked into a particular library (e.g. Helm / Ivy).
       | 
       | I'm always curious to see what he's been up to!
        
         | sourcepluck wrote:
         | I'm unashamedly singing Prot's praises below there, but I must
         | say, there are many, many people who've done amazing things to
         | bring people in to Emacs over the last few years. Singling one
         | person out as doing "the most" is in my opinion not sensible or
         | fair.
         | 
         | Without reflecting much at all or trawling through various
         | resources, Mike Zamansky, Sacha Chu, Mickey Peterson, etc etc.
         | Not to mention all the maintainers, Eli Zaretskii, Lars
         | Ingebrigsten, and however many others I don't know about, loads
         | probably.
        
       | yoyohello13 wrote:
       | Awesome! use-package is also now built in as of Emacs 29.
        
       | perihelions wrote:
       | - _" Having observed beginners_ [sic] _struggle with C-g not
       | closing the open minibuffer, I know that the following is a
       | quality-of-life refinement: "_
       | 
       | Oh _wow_ does this one make me feel stupid. I 've spent eons
       | doing a C-x o C-x o C-x o... dance every time there's some
       | bugging-out minibuffer prompt. It *never once* occurred to me to
       | reflect on that as a "I'm doing it wrong!" issue.
        
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