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Personal blog · blog.binchen.orgprogramming
Loading... is a personal blog at blog.binchen.org about programming. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for Emacs posts, including one on using Emacs-style keybindings in Firefox via Keysnail. Another commenter describes returning to Emacs and praising its Elisp packages and themes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
After seven years of not working with Emacs, a few weeks ago I gave it a try. I was negative, biased and convinced that it would just be a distraction, a time waster. But the more I dived into it, I realized that the Emacs that I worked with in 2010-2013 was not the same anymore. Packages like `dash.el' or `s.el' make programming in Elisp fun! Then there are beautiful themes like `spacemacs'. Also packages for manag…
Comment linking /posts/my-work-flow-to-debug-emacs-plugin.html
on “Emacs 27.1”Submitted Why Emacs is a better editor – case study for JavaScript developer as a story · 139 points
HN discussionI've been using Keysnail and it seems to provide Emacs keybindings for pretty much any task. It also seems to be actively maintained. http://blog.binchen.org/posts/use-firefox-in-emacs-way-3.htm... https://github.com/mooz/keysnail
Comment linking /posts/use-firefox-in-emacs-way-3.html
on “Firemacs: Emacs keybindings for FireFox”Submitted Practical guide to using Gnus with Gmail as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSubmitted Emacs Speed Up 1000% as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to be extremely efficient in Emacs as a story · 2 points
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