Some important acronyms to know. Feel free to add some of your own.

Lisp:
Logic In Symbolic Paradigms
Lisp Inspires Strange People
Lisp Is Secretly Perfect

Python:
Pseudocode You’d Teach Hordes Of Newbies
Probably You'll Try Harder On Next-lang
Python: You'd Think Hardware's Optional Now

Emacs:
Editor Maintained As Community Shrine
Ecosystem Mainly Acquired by Cult Sysadmins
Emacs Means Always Configuring Something

Vim:
Vaguely Interactive Misery
Very Irritating Macros
Vim Isn't Modern

Linux:
Legendary Interface, Notoriously Unforgiving eXperience
Loyal In Nature, Unmatched eXtensibility
Linux Is Natural Under X

#Emacs #Orgmode: does anybody know of an interactive function that asks for a file name and then provides an interactive drill-down search (helm?) for a heading.

When confirmed, it inserts an org-link like [[id:the-id-property][the heading title]]

I was using helm-org-contacts which is now unmaintained and ChatGPT was not able to deliver such a function at all.

Getting an Org link URL from a string; debugging regex groups https://sachachua.com/blog/2025/03/getting-an-org-link-url-from-a-string-debugging-regex-groups/ #elisp #org

The #Emacs #elisp manual claims 'CDR is pronounced "could-er".'

I always pronounced it "cad-er".

Then I tried youtube to find a definitive pronunciation guide, but searching for things involving lisp and pronunciation means I find videos about lisp the speech impairment, not lisp the programming language.

So, what is it?

Just moved to Fosstodon! #introduction

Dad and husband in #Pennsylvania. I teach #biochemistry, #molecularbiology, and #microbiology (and #humanities) in #highered.

Daily #Emacs user since the late 80s, #GNU #Linux on and off since the 90s. Strictly #FreeSoftware since 2010s. #Debian, #GrapheneOS, #OrgMode and #Emacs for teaching and research.

#Japanese #日本語, #francais, y #espanol roto. #DnD and #books. Love #camping #hiking #walking #cycling #coding #elisp

Does anyone have a nice-to-use Emacs solution for searching an entire multi-file codebase for all instances of a string and then being able to navigate to one of those instances by selecting it?

That and Git conflict resolution are like the only two reasons I have VSCode installed anymore.

Hey everyone. I must admit, I don't believe I have ever seen someone enter #utf8 #unicode characters on a #computer in a natural way. Which seems weird, because a bunch of languages use them.

I wrote a #commonLisp #asdf package that just looks up a list of symbols in a file that has every non-surrogate unicode codepoint in it, and an #emacs #elisp function that just calls the #lisp one.

https://codeberg.org/tfw/unicode-chars

Multilingual people, what can you tell me about doing this at all?

Lisp (elisp) nerds. Halp! What does adding a star after a variable mean in lisp/elisp?

See `cmd*` below

I've tried searching for it but I get no hits. I don't like the elisp docs.

#lispyGopherClimate
Recorded live #interview with @corwin
https://communitymedia.video/w/6wYk9SWR22YzKkgBDijrbC
January 8 #2025 0UTC Wednesday: Archive backup of the episode.

#FSF #sysops #emacs #pedagogy #gamedev #ttrpg #elisp #lisp #programming #lambdaMOO #dungeon

I was personally out-of-it this episode, but Corwin really shines!

From Corwin:
The FSF link for the fund-raiser is https://my.fsf.org/join

There's a page about dungeon here: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Dungeon-mode

Here's the project on Savannah: https://savannah.nongnu.org/p/dungeon

So glad to be here ... @fosstodon

thanks a lot for the hosting !

Pardon our english, as it is not our mother... tongue, but #emacs #lisp , #elisp

#Lisp (#clojure, #elisp, #scheme, #commonLisp, whatever) lovers are joking right? The monstrosity is absolutely unreadable and unwritable.

I don't get it.