@kfogel https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=78991 *and* https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=78992 ...whoops.

@johns Wow, fast action from Protesilaos Stavrou, very nice. (And I assume you can close the second ticket as a dup of the first -- although, admittedly, that bug tracker is not easy to work with, for those who don't already know the various email-based commands).

@bkuhn @johns I fiddle a lot but forget to commit.

@tusharhero said:
> I fiddle a lot but forget to commit.

Ah, I forgot to check that, but `/bin/ls -lrta --time-style=full-iso` tells me last modification was 2021-12-08 14:15:28 -0800 …just a few months after my last commit.

I miss a time when I could improve my own tools.

@markgalassi told me once he does this _for a week_ every year. It briefly made me wish I'd been a scientist instead of an activist racing against the clock of diminishing worldwide software freedom.

Cc: @johns @kfogel

@bkuhn @tusharhero @markgalassi @johns The theory behind tweaking one's Emacs config, of course, is that it's actually overall time-efficient to do so, because it makes you faster at doing the (presumably frequent) operations you optimized.

The practice, of course, is that I'm a bald-faced liar and that we all know perfectly well it's an uncontrollable impulse that has no connection to productivity whatsoever.

@bkuhn @johns @markgalassi @tusharhero (Case in point: https://kfogel.org/notice/AvhYn7LB3ONOm4bSCG)

@kfogel

You are so old school that your functions begin with 'kf-' and not 'kf/'. Even I use 'bkuhn/' these days!

😜

Cc: @markgalassi @tusharhero @johns

@bkuhn @markgalassi @tusharhero @johns I'm afraid that's C-programmer bias -- a tacit confession that I'm not as Lispy as you are. Please don't let anyone else in the Fediverse find out!

@kfogel

I have a vague memory "/" wasn't a valid character for identifiers in Emacs 18 or 19? Was it added in like 20?

@markgalassi @tusharhero @johns

@bkuhn @kfogel @markgalassi @johns in Emacs lisp, slashes are valid but not recommended, so that makes them perfect for your personal configuration because you can be sure no package uses it.

@kfogel @bkuhn @markgalassi @tusharhero Second order optimizations? My time spent yesterday was largely removing cruft (RIP livejournal posting from Emacs, shoutout @hober) that was generating warnings and complicating reusing the .emacs on multiple machines. So the only future thing this work made more efficient is...editing my .emacs.

@johns blast from the past, that

@johns @bkuhn @markgalassi @tusharhero @hober You're doing it right.