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Eshan Ramesh
Personal blog · esrh.me/posts · on HN as esrhprogrammingproductivity
Eshan Ramesh's personal blog at esrh.me covers programming and productivity. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Switching to the meow modal editing system from evil Emacs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Eshan Ramesh's Emacs posts, including a post on switching to Meow, a modal editing layer that adopts some ideas from god-mode. The comments cite it as a reference rather than praising the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Switching to the meow modal editing system from evil Emacs5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-10-03
What Hacker News says?
Yeah, i wish more programs worked like this. I wrote something similar on a smaller scale for the keihin-kyuukou line in japan: https://rail.esrh.me . Now I live in tokyo and there's several transit options closeby so I would love to have some always on display like this in my room. Unfortunately, while public transit in the US and Europe seem to be tracked by services with developer friendly APIs, this is not the c…
Comment linking /posts/2023-03-23-clojure
on “Never Missing the Train Again”Submitted Switching to the meow modal editing system from evil Emacs as a story · 17 points
HN discussionI just finished my MS doing ML research at tokyo tech (and also went to georgia tech!!), and I don't think I would honestly recommend it to someone unless they know they primarily want to live in Japan. I think it can be worth it, I feel like I changed quite a lot as a result of my 2 years there. The author's criticisms are valid but probably understated. I happened to work for a fairly wealthy lab that could pay me…
Comment linking /posts/2025-11-15-year-recap
on “Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan”Submitted Switching to the meow modal editing system as a story · 2 points
HN discussionReally glad to see more people switching to meow[0]. It felt extremely right after using and being frustrated by both standard emacs and evil. I wrote the article [1] linked in the post, so that was really fun to see as well! Tldr: simplicity, extensibility, kakoune grammar, less modifier usage, dvorak/keyboard compatibility, great multiedit system that obsoletes macros in daily usage (Disclaimer, i work on meow) [0…
Comment linking /posts/2021-12-18-switching-to-meow.html
on “Joining the Church of Emacs”Submitted The dvorak keyboard, and the joy of designing your own editing scheme as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAlso see Meow[1], [2], which adopts some ideas from god-mode. [1]: https://github.com/meow-edit/meow [2]: https://esrh.me/posts/2021-12-18-switching-to-meow.html
Comment linking /posts/2021-12-18-switching-to-meow.html
on “Emacs commands I got by with for years”I've been seeing posts about packages like God Mode, Boon, and Meow[1] for a long time, and just haven't set aside time to check Meow out yet bit am very exited to c: 1: https://esrh.me/posts/2021-12-18-switching-to-meow.html
Comment linking /posts/2021-12-18-switching-to-meow.html
on “The extensible vi layer for Emacs”https://esrh.me Not a whole lot, some mix of japanese, emacs and lisp. Static site made with hakyll.
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