Some problems of modernizing Emacs

Eduardo Ochs (he/him) - Pronunciation: Oks, IRC: edrx, http://anggtwu.net/, more info at http://anggtwu.net/contact.html., eduardoochs@gmail.com

Format: 20-min talk ; Q&A: IRC
Status: Waiting for video from speaker

Description

This talk is going to be a reworked version of the incomplete video in http://anggtwu.net/2025-modern.html. I will start by presenting several notions of "simplicity" and "elegance", and show that when I started learning Elisp it was "simple" and "elegant" in a way that it no longer is; then I will show how to fix some tiny parts of the problem by 1) using functions based on `cl-prin1', 2) redefining some printing methods with "(cl-defmethod cl-print-object …)", and 3) using Common Lisp to understand some recent parts of Elisp that are not well-documented.

About the speaker:

Eduardo is the author of an Emacs package called eev that makes total sense to a handful of people and no sense at all to practically everyone else - except for one part of eev, called "eepitch". He intends to explain the reasons for that in his talk.

Questions or comments? Please e-mail eduardoochs@gmail.com

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