Emacs’s regular clipboard is the “kill ring” which also allows you to retrieve any previously cut/copied text. It also has “registers” where you can store and retrieve snippets of text, which can be considered clipboards when used for this purpose. Registers can be referenced by any character you can type on your keyboard, including control characters like ^D.
This totals… a lot of clipboards.
My heart sank upon reading the word “electron” and rose again on the very next paragraph. I’m looking forward to seeing it in action.
I think that this is above all else the reason that I use Arch. Arch Linux makes creating packages trivial, basically just wrapping build instructions into a shell script template. Arch handles the rest. The build systems for deb or rpm packages don’t come close, and good luck rolling your own flatpak.
This allows me to use pacman for everything outside of my home directory. Pacman is practically the central feature of my computer, and it’s wonderful. I’m sure those Nix people can relate, though I guess my method is a bit less robust.
This might be the first time I’ve ever seen something productive happen in the Phoronix forums. I love that place. Go to any topic with more than about a dozen posts and it’s almost guaranteed to be a flame war. Genuinely one of the funniest places on the Internet.
Check out this one. It took like three posts!
I have done almost the opposite: moving as much configuration as I can into
use-package statements, even for built-in features like dired. You can
(use-package feature-name)
or even (use-package emacs)
in order to customize
the basics. use-package just provides much better organization than any schema
that I have ever been able to come up with on my own.
Not me, that’s all Prot’s work. I am definitely interested in the package, but I will probably wait for it to appear on GNU ELPA before I try it out.
I’ve been using Devil for a little while now. The right control key is pretty far from the home row on my keyboard, so the usual touch typing motions are inconvenient. I feel like Devil, which I have mapped to semicolon, lets me reclaim some of that.
I have caps lock as control as well, so that gives me control access on both sides of the home row. The two sides behave a bit differently since caps lock is an actual modifier, but that hasn’t been an issue for me.
I don’t think that’s a good idea. Pretty much all interaction with Emacs is mediated through keybinds. There is no distinction between shortcuts and fundamental behavior. Even ordinary typing is done by having each character on your keyboard bound to
self-insert-command
. Perhaps there is some way to nuke the global keymap, but then you’re left with literally nothing. Besides, this would not prevent various modes from adding their own keys anyway.You should consider whether Emacs keybinds are actually in the way enough to be bothersome. You can also
keymap-global-unset
(orkeymap-unset
) individual bindings that you find problematic. I’d also consider delving into the Spacemacs code to see how they implement their “vi only mode.”