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Bad Emacs Defaults
Heh, I recently did a "clean sweep" of my .emacs files (inspired by the new support for `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/config/emacs/init.el` in 27.1) and something like 90% of it was workarounds (some dating back to the late 1990s, for example a "vertical-motion-fix" for something that was fixed in emacs 19.29)
I definitely recommend doing some form of "dotfile bankruptcy" every 20 years or so :-)
(I also ended up doing a crude "load-file-literate" so that now most of my elisp is actually markdown, inspired by https://github.com/skx/dotfiles )
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Bikeshedding Friday: How do you organize your init file?
I keep meaning to explore using org-mode for this. At the moment I have a trivial init.el which loads a literate markdown file init.md.
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Noweb – A Simple, Extensible Tool for Literate Programming
I keep meaning to experiment with bable/tangle in Emacs.
I setup a simple literate configuration of my init file via markdown, which worked out really well, but doing it "properly" in org-mode would be a nice evolution.
With markdown I just search for code-blocks, write them all sequentially to a temporary buffer and evaluate once done. So it is very simplistic, but also being able to write and group things is useful:
https://github.com/skx/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs.d/init.md
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What parts of your config do you like best?
~/.emacs.d/init.el the helper, which loads/executes it.
knot
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Noweb – A Simple, Extensible Tool for Literate Programming
Literate programming seems to becoming popular in the R community due to KnitR and Rmarkdown. This seems to have sparked a few similar-working tools with possibly broader scope and adoption. In my bookmarks I find:
- knot [1]: tangles source code from a text file formatted using plain markdown syntax, can use any markdown converter for weaving into a printable document
- snarl [2]: extends markdown code blocks with syntax used for tangling, its "weave" steps just removes the additional syntax and outputs plain markdown
- pylit [3] [4]: a bidirectional converter: code to formatted text and back. Uses reST for formatting, and preserves line numbers which is useful when debugging. Not an LP tool strictly, as it doesn't define/rearrange code blocks so you have to write your script in the order the compiler wants it, not in the order that would make the best exposition.
Both seem to preserve relative indentation of chunks, so would be useful for Python too.
[1]: https://github.com/mqsoh/knot
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babel/tangle alternatives? [de-emacs-sation]
I'm a fan of https://github.com/mqsoh/knot/
What are some alternatives?
fw-utf8 - Modern fork of FunnelWeb (original written by Ross Williams)
Literate - A literate programming tool for any language
spiralweb - Literate programming system with a Pandoc-extended Markdown backend.
dotemacs - My emacs configuration.
ob-restclient.el - An org-mode extension to restclient.el
emacs-init-generator - Ramblings in art and craft of Emacs init file configuration and Elisp.
straight.el - 🍀 Next-generation, purely functional package manager for the Emacs hacker.
clojure-small-pieces - Clojure in Small Pieces -- Literate Clojure - Created by Tim Daly
verso - A new approach to literate programming.
portia - ultimate literate programing preprocessor