I’m using Emacs for some time now. As is custom, I move more and more of my computing, writing, and scripting into Emacs – becaue I learned to love the writing experience and through customization made it feel like it’s my own. Now that Emacs is a comfy place, I tend to just hang out there from time to time and tinker with things.
If you look over my shoulder as I process stuff into my Zettelkasten, dear programmer friend, you may read along and then scream in terror: How can you pick such a title? It’s clear as day that this won’t be good for long! Just think of … and … to realize that the title needs to be improved! Programmers worth their salt are notorious to focus on edge cases, much to the dismay of non-programmers around them, who fail to see the relevance to be that accurate and all-encompassing when it comes to everyday things. Sorry: That’s part of our job, that’s a reflex you won’t get us to unlearn.
With Emacs eshell, you can redirect the standard output of shell programs into buffers: That will use existing buffers and create new buffers as needed. For me, the new buffers would not be switched to automatically, but created in the background. You don’t pipe into a buffer function, but redirect the output like you’d redirect file output. Instead of a file on disk, you specify a buffer with the special form:
I had the absolute pleasure to talk to Protesilaos Stavrou. He is such a nice host, permitting to derail his line of topics and inquiries over and over again, and still enjoying the process. 11/10, can recommend.
The constant here is: work.
– Prot