Bad Emacs Defaults

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  • ws-butler

    Unobtrusively trim extraneous white-space *ONLY* in lines edited.

  • Another option is to use ws-butler[0], which only deletes trailing whitespace on lines you've edited. This way you don't create spurious diffs on version controlled files (future `git blame` users will thank you).

    [0]: https://github.com/lewang/ws-butler

  • no-littering

    Help keeping ~/.config/emacs clean

  • https://github.com/emacscollective/no-littering

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  • espanso

    Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust

  • Huh, didn't know abbrev had that limitation (wonder why?). Gave it a go in espanso (https://espanso.org/), and it does work there.

  • dotfiles

    Yet another dotfile-repository (by skx)

  • 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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