Configuring Emacs on My New Laptop

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[@two-spikes]

tsoding bought new laptop before gta6

[@beeverfeever4930]

I'm 55 seconds in and Tsoding is starting distro wars and text editor wars already.

[@michaelvanzyl9418]

Vim users are not invited!

[@labsendeyshent]

OG viewer detected

[@prostickman4946]

damn, installing emacs right away

[@nates9778]

RAWR! HISS!! SNARL!!! This is Heresy >:U

[@ecranfortessa]

Damn.

[@surajmandal_567]

You don't need an OS running in an OS 😂

[@NikPiermafrost]

New laptop, new distro Uses Void Based

[@RostislavArts]

Great video (I use neovim btw)

[@Xotchkass]

Tsoding: "I hate how all programming content on KZbin nowadays is just 'Hey! Look at my cool vim config'... Also, here's a 2h stream about my emacs config."

[@lightechoes]

Two wings of the same bird vibes. 😅

[@strawberry_blush81]

The man got a new laptop after 15 years of coding on a laptop that would make anyone pull their hair out. He earned the right :D

[@MrAlanCristhian]

To be fair, in one video he tells you "c is horrible". A month later: "c is the GOAT". And so on. He already said that he rant a lot, and you shouldn't take him so serious.

[@arthur-godart]

@@MrAlanCristhian Xotchkass: makes a joke You: "you shouldn't take him so serious"

[@patsbelly]

0:28 how dare you use a different package manager than me. I will not stand for this.

[@Momoyon]

TSODING GOT A NEW PC LETSS GOOOOO

[@two-spikes]

4:16 Emacs lips 🗿

[@cranil]

For a sec I thought the mofo moved to windows 😳

[@rudolf-adamkovic]

Fido is a legacy thin wrapper over the builtin Icomplete mode. Instead of Fido, Smex, and all that ancient stuff, just run 'icomplete-mode'. That will give you M-x and more, out of the box. The same applies to your package installation helpers and similar. It is all built-in now man.

[@ginzilb3395]

A new laptop that is crazy.

[@ionutred8298]

11:13 when will you release this on Spotify?

[@RussTeeTrombone]

“Welcome to another recreational programming stream witha mister sausage”

[@Pixelsuft]

He finally switched to Void Linux!

[@RichardLofty]

51:04 it does matter. Vim can open a 100gig file in no time. Emacs dies even thinking about it.

[@azergante8268]

IIRC even vim doesn't handle huge single-line files very well (like data dumps etc), any go to editor for that?

[@aaabbb-gu5pz]

@@azergante8268 but, why, this is 1-2 rows is I develop my text editor?

[@tai9404]

@@azergante8268 python

[@kuettler]

Last time I read a 100gig file, I died, too. :( But admittedly, there is always joe if you need it.

[@ClosetFemboy]

@@azergante8268 EmEditor is the go to for that

[@MrAlanCristhian]

If you stopped using Debian because OBS is not working with an NVIDIA graphic card, the solution is to build the nvidia-vaapi-driver 0.0.10 from source. The maintainer of that package just disappeared. Two guys requested to be the new maintainers of it, but in the meantime, you have to build it yourself.

[@Cemonix]

tea temperature is gone, oh no

[@Lorenzo1938]

Even the porn folder

[@rogo7330]

and porn folder size too

[@ndrechtseiter]

Porn folder size as well 😢

[@fischi9129]

to be honest, VSCode doesn't have the toolbar either. It just has a sidebar with files etc, which are actually tools, and the top bar like every GUI app pretty much. No Undo button that I know of in VScode, or Save, or copy/paste/cut.... xD

[@flamendless]

New laptop? No need to write in C anymore because your RAM can handle the modern web devs crap 😂

[@JohnDoe-vb3ks]

To me the best example of "lost in time" knowledge, is the first line of William Gibson's Neuromancer 'The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. '

[@finskiy_yt]

stream on new laptop but bitrate of stream is same 👎

[@TsodingDaily]

Hm... Maybe this is due to ffmpeg script that I use to edit my vods. Thank you for the heads up!

[@Momoyon]

Hi twitch chat!

[@alh-xj6gt]

To the line duplication at the end in vim it will need some bind and use of marks. due to vim internal bs they can not bind ctrl-; or ctrl-, and more such punctations. So to get only a line duplicate of notepad++ for ctrl+d do the following (ignoring the selection duplication if stuff is selected and needs duplication) :nmap m`yyp``j m` - mark cursor position yy - yank line p - paste line `` - jump to mark j - move cursor down To the editor/IDE wars. Yeah it doesn't matter they all somehow suck I'm not a fan of any of them. Sure does help a bit to be able to jump to line numbers, have some fast(!) candy coloured syntax salad or have some completion functionality. I grew up with DOS editor and used default windows notepad with find on the side in a console in the 90s as findstr didn't exist yet. Switched to linux used pico and later nano so I didn't had to suffer through what ever vim and emacs new user experience was and still is. Once movement is done through searches it will be quick enough for any codebase and really all editors can do search .. even plain windows 3.1 notepad. in convoluted and long named codebases that are written with autocomplete than it becomes nearly mandatory to use autocomplete-able editors even as a fast and accurate typer. But even then I tend to alias the stuff and work at the problem till it works and search + replaced it with what ever ridiculous naming is in place and needed to keep everyone happy and off my back. Would be interesting to see the boomer translation to C. I mean just watched 2 hours of you getting your old emacs config current and learned a few things here and there. Going through porting stuff over to another language will have at least similar value. "Think of the children." Compelled Rust use, otherwise one is tagged as securityphobic. The only angle a western mind seems to comprehend change and criticism these days. I'm still waiting for the radical greens to demand detailed explanation why software takes so much cycles and wattage and demand somehow reparations for wasted cycles.

[@blzr8]

fck it am learnin emacs and configure it with vim binds

[@nickelpence]

2 months ago I finally started using emacs as my daily editor, was kinda hard at the start, getting used to the key combinations and such. I can now proudly say, that I suck less! Also, thanks for your config, did a little cherry picking of some stuff I wanted as I went along.

[@ivanjermakov]

Downgrade from i3 to xfce, unbelievable.

[@pragyan394]

Imagine using Emacs in 2024. This was brought to you by the Neovim gang

[@RichardLofty]

57:30 emacs not being able to parse 7 megs lol! 200k lines 😂 I'm dying!

[@programminglife8903]

It's an c-mode's issue, not Emacs' Should've at least watch that segment till the end.

[@nsxz1014]

"Serious people don't use VS code"

[@NotMarkKnopfler]

Tsoding: "Serious people don't need VS code" Me: 😢

[@mehdi7586]

emacs 28 comes with fido-mode and fido-vertical-mode. so you no longer need smex and ido.

[@rogo7330]

Emacs users **handshake** Arch users > making their lives as miserable as possible

[@xccr2]

hope you will enjoy void linux

[@azergante8268]

1:59:18 blockchain contract to manage discord access? could be very educational!

[@NetBSDToaster-u8e]

Poggers

[@luigidabro]

Oh, I always thought emacs was a tui, not a gui

[@Kitulous]

SAME

[@kraken296]

it can be both

[@МатвейРовчак-в4о]

Все фанаты Вим просто вышли из чата(зато появилось пару фанатов Имакс)

[@catfan5618]

Nah I am still here

[@inferrna]

34:00 tsoding herecy goes completely unsafe

[@RichardLofty]

59:25 yeah yea vim spies, hahah, same people that develeoed emacs and use it, they developed the same level of trash, default c mode hahahah

[@RichardLofty]

Just use nvim

[@anidnmeno]

"Clone it, fork it, fix it yourself!"

[@Pasora]

A NEW ERA

[@sirenti9384]

Any nixos enjoyers?

[@Redyf]

Yessir

[@jaymr2795]

Really cool stream idea! Btw I really liked your simple i3 setup, do you plan on using xfce from now on or will you go back to i3 once you have everything setup on your new Laptop?

[@TsodingDaily]

I'm not sure actually. There are some things I like in xfce, there are some things I like in i3. It would be cool to use them together. I need to research if it's possible to just replace the usual xfce's wm with i3.

[@fjfjfjfjfjfj973]

@@TsodingDaily maybe switch to wayland with sway. In my experience there's no working only telegram notifications (which is replaceable by mako notification daemon).

[@Momoyon]

​@@TsodingDailyuse dwm

[@yablock0]

​@@TsodingDaily you can use most of xfce (it's bars (with tray btw) and applications) with i3 as window manager.

[@oddstap6976]

@@TsodingDaily I think it’s actually possible. I have seen some nice articles on it. If you do decide to do that please make a video on it.

[@rogo7330]

for cm I think it'll be better to just show position in the file through less, for example, or just do print-around with one column being error output and second column being actual print-around.

[@hedlund]

Grats on the new machine! Also, to anyone who hasn't done - try one of the Lisps! It's a lot more fun to write than it actually looks. Edit: lol don't think I've ever seen avyone PR-ing someone's dotfile repo before Edit2 re emacs modifying .emacs - If I'm starting from scratch I usually do all my customize-mode changes at once, and then manually set those exact things in .emacs (referencing what needs setting is easy since emacs has just dumped everything right there). Once they're all set you can nuke the ;;custom-set-variables section. emacs won't rewrite it unless you change something else from a customize-mode. Not using .emacs for user-code is much easier, though, but I've never claimed to not be stupid.

[@christer8964]

Nice! I also bought a new laptop, but I configured my Emacs the other day. I also stop adding so much into config file. And instead programming some Elips functions myself, the way Emacs should be used.

[@yramagicman675]

Re: compilation mode I sit on the fence between emacs and neovim. My config for both editors is nearly identical because I use Evil Mode. What you said about compilation mode is spot on. It just works, and it does exactly the right thing. The vim equivalent is good, but not close to compilation mode in emacs.

[@MikhailAksenovV]

As long as you're not using clojure core async in Emacs lisp I am happy. But that would have been funny tho - having a macro that does crazy async with coroutines.

[@DobryWujaszekKun]

meh... fedora, arch, nix, gentoo, but void? Big meh. Void linux is the system that does what all mentioned is capable of but worse xD

[@AzerAnimations]

Please tell me he tries to use "use-package" instead of rolling his own. It is really nice and declarative

[@Odod4000]

What Desktop Enviroment do you use? 😄

[@cikuozzo]

that's a plain XFCE

[@freddydurkee8632]

i think that's specific to neovim and doesn't work like that in vim, but :t. will duplicate the line while preserving the cursor position

[@rhogal8310]

the only thing I need an IDE for is pretty much just syntax highlighting and like code suggestions or whatever you call that feature which tells you what methods or functions are available for a given object, everything else I do from the command line

[@ivandimitrov4410]

I got baited to write this comment - in vim you can create a keybind to the command :t. to duplicate a line and keep the cursor

[@epsilonnought2648]

As a laptop connoisseur, I see you have a ThinkPad E14 gen 5. I personally have a Lenovo Legion 5P Gen 5.

[@wernersmidt3298]

The reason Tsoding is using Emacs, is because Rachmaninov's fingers could span 12 keys on the piano.

[@LuvingToryChristman]

Congrats to your new Laptop! Happy for you! :D (...coming from a die-hard vim user.. ;)

[@howto-xd6tq]

now get new internet

[@catomajorcensor]

Void Linux is awesome, but its software availability is subpar.

[@vladinosky]

Always wondered, if you struggled with such an old laptop how did you manage to stream on twitch simultaneously?

[@logyross6883]

This is crazy, I checked out your old Emacs configuration video again just a few hours ago.

[@windus08]

OS with cli only ❌. OS with ugly as fuсk interface✅

[@DART2WADER]

Поздравляю тебя с обновлением. Когда приобрёл себе новый мощный ноутбук, то старый стационарный ПК стал пылиться без дела. Я привык к Qt Creator и теперь всё делаю в нём и задумываюсь над написанием своих плагинов к нему.

[@arcxm]

Feels like an updated version of your old emacs setup video. Got me to try out emacs and play with it for a bit

[@emdeetee8363]

A new laptop? I've never clicked on a tsoding VOD so quickly

[@Kitulous]

I'm 5:38 in, and I don't understand. has emacs always been a GUI app with removed menu and top bar? or has zozin been using a terminal based version of emacs before?

[@ThatGuyexe]

Penger kinda fire

[@ariandannemann4544]

Insulting vim and debian in the first minute? He really wants to start a war!

[@Odod4000]

YAY NEW STREAM i love your streams!!! 😀

[@Jackarius86]

in vim, you dont duplicate line with wwp, you do it with Yp or YP

[@berkeenver6752]

Hayırlı olsun tsoding abime

[@inferrna]

01:06:30 then try Zed. It as fast as any text editor, but actually is an IDE.

[@androth1502]

the only reason i don't like emacs is because it runs like ass on windows.

[@tianned]

Never assumed that mr zozin participated in text editor wars :D

[@RavikulRao]

why not arch? ,just would like to know ?, i think it might suit you too !

[@tofaa3668]

No way he bought a new laptop, this mans gonna be unstoppable now

[@RukopisyNarnie]

No way, I use void for 2 years and never thought you would try it out.

[@Vili69420]

Why dont u get money from twitch and stuff? Just wondering.

[@yukijoou]

he's in russia

[@Vili69420]

@@yukijoou oof

[@inertia_dagger]

actually happy that you got a machine so old anymore, congrats!

[@ndr3www]

Out of curiosity, what was your previous laptop?

[@uuu12343]

Time to configure and give emacs a shot together with this video

[@insanesup9648]

After start work at 4am Moscow time, it’s what I need to watch

[@lievenpetersen]

new laptop Pog omg that desktop scared me for a moment xD

[@juniorceccon]

what is his new computer configuration?

[@GrindAlchemyTech]

😂😂😂😂 remix .... just rewrite that shit in C...🙌🏽👽💗

[@PavitraGolchha]

you missed the opportunity to build your own laptop

[@BadBakh]

Congratulations on the new laptoppp

[@LALO-cv4ck]

zozin made sure to piss off everyone

[@eyemotif]

5:24 that delivery actually made me laugh out loud

[@AlexanderBelov-y8o]

Windows XP background.

[@mouhamedbourouba3637]

*vim gang. * Is wildcard

[@semihkaplan]

Zozeen, do you use X11 or Wayland now?

[@RichardLofty]

34:32 rust isn't even safe lol! You can easily break it and even rust foundation people admit that it's not ready for the actual use in Linux kernel.

[@puncherinokripperino2500]

with this one simple tecnique...

[@aaabbb-gu5pz]

I think that it is far more simple to write (even in C) self text editor and IDE for 1-2 languages, than to learn and configure such a brainfuck insanity like emacs or vim variants.

[@rusi6219]

It's also a good experience teaching you useful programming skills

[@alice-smith]

It would be nice to see the rewrite of zoomer in C

[@realdotty5356]

Make scratch coding video

[@Myexpectationsarerealistic]

You finally upgraded.