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by i_think_so 50 days ago
Whoa. iLemming, I dub thee eLemming -- for Elite. Even among the everything-in-emacs crowd, that is some impressive next level stuff right there.

In the past I've investigated emacs enough to appreciate that asking someone for their emacs config is a mix of Futile + Way Too Personal + Too Much Work (on their part, explaining etc). But do you perhaps have a blog or something somewhere about your setup, so noobs who aspire to that kind of emacsdom could get an idea of what is possible and how you're doing it?

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Wow, thank you of course, but honestly, you're giving me way too much credit. None of this stuff I mentioned requires some special skills - most of it is about finding the right package and installing it. My Emacs config is here¹ - there's nothing to hide there, it's all pretty much public knowledge.

- Org-Roam is a widely known and popular package. However, I moved to Vulpea, because it has much faster and improved indexing. Over the years I have accumulated few thousand notes and vanilla Org-Roam indexing became a bottleneck.

- For spaced repetition I use anki-editor and some yasnippet templates to quickly create cards. There exist multiple packages for Anki and other kind of cards.

- Tangling dotfiles (or any files) from Org is a known trick. Many manage their Emacs configs that way

- API investigations are a bunch of Org-mode source blocks. I use ob-http and verb.el

- For Reddit and Hackernews, I use hnreader and reddigg with some customizations on top

- For email I use notmuch. Some prefer mu4e

- For Telegram - telega.el

- For universal search - consult-omni

- For writing - mw-thesaurus, jinx, define-it, wiktionary-bro, google-translate, sdcv

- For LLMs - gptel-agent and ECA

- For PRs - code-review.el

- For watching videos a custom transient atop mpv.el

- For browser history - browser-hist.el

- Last two pieces are of my own doodling, you can find them in my config - I keep procrastinating, I need to make them into separate packages.

No, I do not have a blog - I'm a peculiar writer. Like Russians say: writing is like pissing - you should do it only when you can't hold it anymore². I guess I'm not there yet. I do occasionally publish some YouTube vids, I have a channel with a pretentious name³.

Feel free to ping me with any questions, it will be a real pleasure to be of help . I'm sure you can find a way to contact me directly - I'm pretty easy to find.

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¹ https://github.com/agzam/.doom.d

² "to write" and "to piss" in Russian is the same word - писать. The difference only in pronouncing.

³ https://www.youtube.com/@emacspropaganda