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4ffy

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  • Emacs 30.1 released

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  • Cool small features in Emacs 30 that I really like:

    • If you have ever tried to create a custom modeline, you may have discovered that right-aligning elements was a massive pain. Emacs 30 adds a new modeline element mode-line-format-right-align which makes all subsequent elements in mode-line-format right-aligned.
    • When Emacs prompts you about recovering an auto-save file, you can now press = to show a diff between the buffer and auto-save. No more guessing whether you had done anything important.
    • E in dired opens a file with the default program for that file type (via xdg-open or OS equivalent).

  • Emacs 30.1 RC1 is available

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  • Emacs 30 is a more low-key release compared to heavy hitting features like native compilation in 28 and Tree-sitter in 29. Probably the headline change is replacing the libjansson based JSON parser with a homegrown one that is several times (~8x) faster, which will significantly benefit features like LSP. This will also mark the official release of the Android port, as well as the usual scattershot of improvements across the board. The NEWS file has the full changelog.

  • Experience with sdl2-compat?

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  • I found that sound was completely broken in MAME, in the extremely loud kind of way. Not a fun experience. I'd like to look into it more so that I can file a bug report, but I don't yet know where the blame lies.

    Every other program that I use seems to work fine so far.

  • Emacs @lemmy.ml
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    Combobulate: Bulk Editing Tree-Sitter Nodes with Multiple Cursors

    www.masteringemacs.org /article/combobulate-bulk-editing-treesitter-nodes-multiple-cursors
  • Golang @programming.dev
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    What's in an (Alias) Name?

    go.dev /blog/alias-names
  • Emacs @lemmy.ml
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    Emacsair! Magit 4.0 released

    emacsair.me /2024/08/09/magit-4.0/
  • Emacs @lemmy.ml
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    Emacs: copy file to many directories

    protesilaos.com /codelog/2024-08-06-emacs-copy-file-to-directories/
  • Emacs @lemmy.ml
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    Emacs: Denote version 3.0.0

    protesilaos.com /codelog/2024-06-30-emacs-denote-3-0-0/

  • Linux and DOOM (1993)

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  • The reason that Doom is so portable goes beyond Linux and is an artefact of its development. id developed Doom on NeXTSTEP (i.e. Unix) machines and obviously targeted DOS. This is pretty unique among DOS games at the time and required id to write as much code as possible in a platform agnostic way. This means that the main engine does not care about where it is running and the usual DOS hacks are contained to DOS-specific files. In order to port Doom to a new platform, ideally one only needs to rewrite the system-specific implementation files for video, sound, filesystem access, etc., and this mostly holds true today. (These files are prefixed with i_ in the Doom source).

    The Linux port is just one of many versions developed at the time. I don't believe that it was commercially released; it was more of a portability test. The reason that the Linux version was chosen for the source release over the DOS version was because it didn't rely on the proprietary DMX sound library that the DOS port used.

  • Emacs @lemmy.ml
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    The Emacs Window Management Almanac

    karthinks.com /software/emacs-window-management-almanac/
  • Emacs @lemmy.ml
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    Emacs: Denote version 2.3.0

    protesilaos.com /codelog/2024-03-24-denote-2-3-0/
  • Emacs @lemmy.ml
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    Emacs 29.3 released

    lists.gnu.org /archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-03/msg00611.html
  • Emacs @lemmy.ml
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    Emacs: modus-themes version 4.4.0

    protesilaos.com /codelog/2024-03-17-modus-themes-4-4-0/
  • Emacs @lemmy.ml
    4ffy @lemmy.ml

    Combobulate: Intuitive, Structured Navigation with Tree-Sitter

    www.masteringemacs.org /article/combobulate-intuitive-structured-navigation-treesitter
  • Luanti community @lemmy.ml
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    Minetest Blog - Early Winter in Minetest

    blog.minetest.net /2024/01/29/January/

  • The Phoronix forms, where AMD and NVIDIA engineers can effectively communicate

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  • This might be the first time I've ever seen something productive happen in the Phoronix forums. I love that place. Go to any topic with more than about a dozen posts and it's almost guaranteed to be a flame war. Genuinely one of the funniest places on the Internet.

    Check out this one. It took like three posts!

  • What is Hexbear and how its story intertwines to Lemmy's?

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  • r/cth was originally a subreddit for the podcast Chapo Trap House, but it eventually bloomed into a general-purpose leftist space. IIRC, the sub was around 160k members at its peak and had a distinct posting culture.

    It was quarantined by Reddit for violent speech after calling for the death of slave owners and later banned for no particular reason at the same time as r/the_donald, presumably as a "both sides" sort of thing.

  • What is Hexbear and how its story intertwines to Lemmy's?

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  • Hexbear is an instance formed mostly by former r/chapotraphouse users after that sub was banned from Reddit a few years ago. Hexbear used to run on a custom fork of Lemmy so that the community could add extra features that they wanted (like custom emoji) but it was recently ported back to mainline Lemmy after merging or reimplementing as many changes as possible.

    Currently, Hexbear does not have federation enabled, and there is discussion about who to federate with or even whether to federate at all. The community is very active and self-sufficient and some members prefer the isolation.

    Content-wise, it's a leftist-focused instance. Some shitposts, some serious posts, and a lot of inside jokes.