Introduction With the terminology covered and your configuration ready from Part 1, it's time now to build your muscle memory. Navigating Emacs entirely by keyboard has no real shortcuts; it just requires patience, consistency, and a lot of practice. I can't promise you that you will memorize all of the keybindings in this guide, but I can assure you that you will be able to know the commands you need, how to invoke them, and how to recall their keybindings in case you forget them.
Introduction I still remember very well the first time I downloaded and ran Emacs back in 2008. I'm certain I said something along the lines of, "Meh, this definitely isn't my type of text editor." Out of the box, Emacs is plain and confusing for newcomers; it also has a steep learning curve. However, there is a good reason so many developers stick with it and treat it almost as a way of life, there simply is no other tool that offers what Emacs provides. This guide's purpose is to show you how you can survive in Emacs and how you can complete your daily tasks within Emacs and keep improving over time.
The Batteries-Included Flavors Even though I am not a big fan of the batteries-included flavors anymore, I still believe they are great starter kits for package discovery and understanding how far Emacs can be customized. I personally thought that Emacs was just a simple text editor like gedit until I tried the Emacs distribution Spacemacs which comes opinionated, pre-configured, and ready to use out of the box.
Introduction We discussed earlier the objective of the firmware which was to test the hardware and run the bootloader. The bootloader is a small program that has one objective, to load the kernel properly in RAM hand control to it.
Introduction In this series, I will try to explain how your system (specifically Linux) is booted from the moment you press that power button until you see your desktop environment. I will also highlight the different software available for each task/step and what customization you can apply.
TODO Installation Channels Channels in Guix are a way to customize and extend the Guix package collection. They allow users to pull packages and updates from multiple repositories. They are declared as a list of channel records in the file channels.scm. These channels are git repositories that store definitions that instruct Guix how to build and install packages. Since these are git repositories, then similar to any git cloned project, it needs to be pulled to kept up to date. Guix can help you update/pull all your configured channels with the command guix pull.
Guile Swayer I am an Emacs user and previously used StumpWM, an X11 window manager written in Common Lisp. I believe window managers should be scriptable because the level of workflow customization required by users often exceeds what can be achieved with simple configuration parameters (see my workflow below for a clearer understanding of why this is the case). Unfortunately, Sway/i3 lacks a straightforward programmable interface for customization. This project provides complete control over Sway/i3 using Guile!
🎃 Spooky Night - Press Kit 🎃 # Welcome to the official press kit for Spooky Night, the ultimate game of deception and doom! Here, you’ll find all the assets, descriptions, and details you need for articles, videos, and promotions.
Introduction Wayland is a modern, secure display server protocol for Linux and Unix-like operating systems. It is a replacement for the older X11 system and it manages how applications render graphics and windows to your screen.
In a Wayland desktop, you have two components:
I’m currently studying River in the hope of crafting a guile scheme based window manager, River uses a unique non-monolithic approach, unlike the "all-in-one" approach seen in many compositors, it splits the responsibilities of rendering and window management.
I am using this post as a living document to log my notes and findings as I study the river-window-management-v1 protocol. One done, it should be a great foundation for those who want to understand my window manager or write their own based on River.
