@divyaranjan INSANE!!!

36.9KLOC!!!

$ cloc etaf etaf-ui etaf-db etaf-reader
213 text files.
180 unique files.
39 files ignored.

github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 2.10 T=0.14 s (1322.5 files/s, 388729.8 lines/s)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language files blank comment code
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lisp 128 3141 5310 36904
Markdown 17 511 8 2160
JSON 6 3 0 2001
Python 13 156 138 1398
Bourne Shell 6 28 7 477
Swift 1 10 14 298
make 4 52 0 161
YAML 2 0 0 56
SVG 2 0 3 39
INI 1 7 0 26
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUM: 180 3908 5480 43520
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
tusharhero@cumpeter /tmp [env]$

#emacs

Well well, vibe-coded document reader for emacs just dropped: https://github.com/emacs-taf/etaf-reader

I made the prediction to @divyaranjan in private. I guess from February to October counts as "few months".

#emacs

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tusharhero @tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz @divyaranjan Just doing it here so that it is believable that I actually predicted this. So, I predict in the next few months there is going to be a vibe coded alternative to emacs-reader. Either as a fork, or as new project. It will probably be written in Rust. And it will have a stupidly large code base. Feb 27, 2026, 01:07 PM Private mention Divya Ranjan Pattanaik :hilbert: @divyaranjan Feb 27 @tusharhero And we will have a comic line for it in our README, how we do better while being simple.

Cursed #Emacs thought: Elisp prediction market client.

I am going to share a bit about a rabbit hole I went down recently.

I was curious what the deal was with GNU nano. Why is it always there? Why does it feel so weird? Who could possibly care about it given its bindings don’t feel native on GNU like #Emacs nor does it rely on the ubiquity (and supposed compositional grammar) of vi?

So here is the thing, there was once an email client called Pine. (Kids, ask your parents.) And Pine had a beloved email composition system called Pico (Pine composer), which was also available as its own editor. And its philosophy was geared for beginners. Think more like Notepad or TextEdit as opposed to something made for programming and the like.

In a twist of fate, Pico is actually an adaptation of MicroEMACS. So while it has some Emacs in its DNA, its user surface is quite different (again, aimed at beginners). And because the licensing of Pico restricted redistribution of modified binaries, it was first rewritten as TIP (“TIP Isn’t Pico”) which was later renamed to nano before it became a part of the GNU project.

And because it’s considered to be an editor for beginners, it is the standard default in many places.

As an addendum, and through this lens, GNU Emacs is at least two things: It’s the user-facing surface of the default keybindings (C-a, C-e and so on, the surface of GNU) and it’s the underlying extensible Lisp system. While many of you took to Emacs for that extensibility, I adopted it as a teen for the surface. And for 20+ years I used it just as you might use another variant of MicroEMACS, called mg (originally MicroGNUEmacs). To this day, to me, Emacs is the surface, the one set of keybinds that forms the GNU command surface across the shell and Emacs and Readline apps.

It’s not just a set of keybinds. It’s how I learnt to use a computer.

#5 OrgDevMeetup on Sat, October 17, 19:00 UTC+3

Org *development* meetup is scheduled next week.
The time should be suitable for US.

The meetup focuses on actual Org development, live, together.

More information: https://orgmode.org/worg/orgdevmeetup.html
URL: https://bbb.emacsverse.org/rooms/orgdevmeetup/join

#orgmeetup #orgmode #emacs #meetup

CC: @sacha

Using Emacs Info vs going to the web is the same internal argument as "don't dine out, you have food at home."

#Emacs

#emacs users, I see #gnu .org is down... anyone know what's up? According to here, its been down for 12hrs https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/gnu.org.html

#Emacs: Remove obsolete version control systems to enhance file loading performance, especially over TRAMP (SCCS and SRC are historical tools, CVS and Bzr are obsolete; even Canonical migrated to Git. RCS is similarly obsolete, so removing these backends prevents unnecessary checks):

(setq vc-handled-backends '(Git SVN Hg))

@divyaranjan didn't mention it but this version of reader doesn't use canvas. So, it can be used with #Emacs 31.1.

This will be the last version to work without canvas.

I rewrote/refactored almost the entire backend of #Emacs Reader to decouple parsing/rendering processes, make commands thread-safe and above all stop it from crashing in any manner.

We'd like more people to exhaustively test this PR, to ensure stability. If you wanna volunteer please test and report here:

https://codeberg.org/MonadicSheep/emacs-reader/pulls/199

This will be part of Reader's upcoming major release (0.4.0), and towards a stable foundation on which more UI features can be implemented.

Triode app from @Iconfactory is as good an internet radio station app as it gets. If you're an Emacs user and ever wanted to remote control it without leaving Emacs, today's your lucky day. Announcing triode.el, now available on MELPA.

http://yummymelon.com/devnull/announcing-triode-el.html

#Emacs #macOS #TriodeApp

Going live at #PeerTube to work on #Emacs Reader. Refactoring the rendering architecture a bit and discussing about some new PRs to fix scaling discrepancies.

https://tv.dyne.org/w/aQTaXgg7Zvp7j5HNnnzoPN

New post on M-x apropos Emacs! May I recommend eww for Emacs's innovative UI?

https://www.matem.unam.mx/~omar/apropos-emacs.html#may-i-recommend-eww-for-emacs-innovative-ui

Please consider this as entry for the May edition of the #Emacs Carnival, @sacha.