Intro I am trying to ease my way into GUIX by starting with just using it as a package manager, but my effort was stalled early. I’m getting: $ guix pull Updating channel ‘nonguix’ from Git repository at ‘https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix'… guix pull: error: Git error: the SSL certificate is invalid This is occurring after adding a couple to channels.scm: (cons* (channel (name 'nonguix) (url "https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix") (introduction (make-channel-introduction "897c1a470da759236cc11798f4e0a5f7d4d59fbc" (openpgp-fingerprint "2A39 3FFF 68F4 EF7A 3D29 12AF 6F51 20A0 22FB B2D5")))) (channel (name 'flat) (url "https://github.

Intro EDIT [2021-09-27 Mon]: decreased hl-line-flash-show-period1 I learned about beacon.el2 in one of Sacha Chua’s videos3 that asted users about their favorite tweaks, and it remained one that I found useful throughout several years with emacs. However, it stopped working somewhere in version 27, with a number of glitches that were eventually recognized in the repo, but no fix was available. Beacon candy Beacon was nice because it didn’t highlight the whole line, but only a gradient extending from your cursor, which would gently fade away (at least, that was the idea).

Problem: exwm choking on Transients with Unbound suffix I have been gradually experimenting with replacing my hydras with Transients1, partly as a proof of concept. I have a show-stopping issue2 when I sometimes end up invoking the Transients from an EXWM window, however. The Transient pops up, but no key I press is then sent to the Transient and I end up trapped in a loop: Transient is expecting a key, which needs to be passed by EXWM, but EXWM can’t pass the right keys because Transient is intercepting them3.

Intro One of the great pieces of advice I received for setting up Dvorak keys was to swap C-x and C-u keys, and the following snippet does just that. ;; Dvorak settings (keyboard-translate ?\C-u ?\C-x) (keyboard-translate ?\C-x ?\C-u) I had hoped that a simple replacement of the the C with M would make that change for Meta, too, since M-x is common and awkward on Dvorak. However, that gave me a type error.

Updated: [2021-09-23 Thu] comment from Mark Intro Somewhere back in Emacs’ memory of text esoterica and ideas that don’t seem to have taken off, there is support for ascii page breaks: the idea that within a single text document, “pages” could be represented by special characters. This is before the dawn of word processors or orgmode or PDF files, and this is an idea that might still be useful for some enterprising archeologist.

Intro It took some elbow-grease but I was able to convert online examples1 into a working image selector in Reagent Clojurescript. It isn’t a lot of code, but there were two complications: converting the declarative style of the examples into more functional CLJS (hint: it involves closures), and doing it in a way that will jive with the React life-cycle. CSS code The following styling makes things look okay. This is using Garden2 syntax.

Intro I am trying to apply a custom view to all the results of a visit to a taxonomy page, which involves wrapping the whole lot of results in some DOM boilerplate and then invoking the function to display each result as an element within that boilerplate. My strategy of choice was to step through each result, populated dynamically depending which taxonomy term has led them here, and fill a bucket with those results, then display each one appropriately.

Godmode Godmode1 is a handy mode that aims to ease the stress on otherwise stretching fingers by basically holding C- or M-C for you. A common difficulty is knowing if you are currently in Godmode or not, especially since I no longer use doom-modeline2. The first solution that is recommended is to change your cursor depending on whether you are in the mode or not. For years, back when I used godmode more rarely, this was enough.

Intro I am no Bash expert, but in searching for an unrelated answer I came across the following snippet to add a suffix to a file: sudo mv /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.knopwob.dunst.service{,.disabled} The insight here was in the way the braces expanded to the full earlier path. I look forward to making better use of this in my command-line journeyings. I also found a nice instructive cheat sheet here: https://wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/expansion/brace .

My heavy emacs use was both the motivation and the obstacle to switching to a new keyboard layout. Motivation because my life is keyboard driven, so there are healh and efficiency reasons to want to make the best of my keyboard experience. Obstruction because so much of my emacs and typing proficiency is in my muscle memory, and this might be lost if I make a drastic change. Well, rather than Colemaks or QwertZ, which aim to maintain most of your muscle memory, I decided to go whole hog and do Dvorak.