Emacs

A simple tool using transient menus for those who want to manage the advanced package tool (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc.) from Emacs.

Some highlights:

• Display results from apt list in a tablist buffer and mark packages for other apt operations
• Export apt list to Org mode and mark packages for install/removal/purge etc.. with TODO keywrods
• Run apt on a remote system with tramp and ssh, select remotes with completion
• Mark packages in your config requiring external dependencies and generate a tablist report of external programs and their paths (similar to whiche

Requires Emacs 28.1 or newer

This post is a weekly opportunity to start a conversation on Emacs. Post any new tips, tricks, or questions you have for the community.

This post is a weekly opportunity to start a conversation on Emacs. Post any new tips, tricks, or questions you have for the community.

This post is a weekly opportunity to start a conversation on Emacs. Post any new tips, tricks, or questions you have for the community.

announce the release of Magit version 4.0, consisting of 1077 commits, since the last release three years ago. This is also coordinated with forge and transient releases.

A quick glance suggested that the lem package is a good option but I've been struggling to get it to work. When I launch it I put the username as @steeznson:lemmy.world but this returns a 404.

Can't find any docs after a quick google search and also struggling to track anything down in the emacs built in docs.

Lastly, unrelated, I wanted to shout out the emacs client for mastodon. It's great!