kinda glad I bounced off of the suckless ecosystem when I realized how much their config mechanism (C header files and a recompile cycle) fucking sucked

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the one nice thing is that the suckless ecosystem’s simplicity means that forking these things should be fairly easy for a dev or group with the time and spoons to handle maintenance, and might even provide a new direction for features that suckless would never consider

Taking suggestions on fast minimalist launchers and windows managers tiling ideally (and terminals with Unicode support rxvt suuuuuuuuuuucks) if anyone has them.

unfortunately, the only thing I use is emacs (exwm as a tiling window manager, emacs itself as a process launcher, vterm for a mostly not terrible somewhat high performance terminal, a pile of Lisp that keeps growing as I patch things live, all tied into the system with a bunch of Nix)

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TIL about exwm, seems fun!

(I’m bitextual, I use both emacs and vim, though I’m more on the vim side of the scale)

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Emacs was the best os except for the text editor until you could run vim on it

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oh I am also bitextual as fuck (I’m immediately stealing this) so I highly recommend running exwm under Doom Emacs or Spacemacs, both of which have modules for it (and you can also do a fully custom minimal evil layer for it by just importing exwm from elpa and writing a little bit of config, which I prefer)

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Ah, you started learning org mode didn’t you?

You’ve seen this yeah? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL86UpqZc

has me in stitches. Browsing Wikipedia from within emacs is so convenient though

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What is mac?

What a poser. What self-respecting Emacs fanatic doesn’t know about Project MAC?

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