Forem: Nahuel Jesús Sacchetti

My Emacs

Nahuel Jesús Sacchetti — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 20:05:57 +0000

I've been using Emacs for months now. When you get into this world you see a lot of people saying that Emacs its like an Operating System or that setting up Emacs its a lifetime task, and that's true, you actually never get bored.

I started with a fairly simple configuration back then, with stock Emacs (no Spacemacs, no other people's configuration). At first it looked difficult but I wanted something simple, not a super-big overloaded IDE, that I could control with only the keyboard and doesn't have too many distractions for me so I was happy about that.

My Configuration Becoming Literate

Then I started to add those things I didn't wanted. Why? Well maybe because you can, and you can do it with code! Started to learn Scheme/Lisp and Elisp (the Emacs version of this Scheme language) to create a bunch of functions and I saw a lot of videos of the EmacsConf to find new things to do. I moved all my configuration to a technique I now love: Literate Programming (which I'm actually thinking of creating a new programming/scripting language focused on this technique)

Back then, as I said, I added a lot of unneeded features that even though looked good it was "overloading" my Emacs. This is how it looked (2017/7/5)

Coming Back to Stock Emacs

As the time went by, I understood that Emacs can be an IDE but it's more like an Operating System and since I use CLI programs, Emacs should be one of those. I started to remove unnecessary things from my configuration and replacing packages to Elisp functions (Still in progress with these). I also started creating my own low-contrast/low-distraction theme.

Checkout My Configuration

I use Emacs everywhere and for everything so I need my configuration wherever I go. I share my files through GitHub so you can checkout and download my configuration from here: https://github.com/elnawe/.emacs.d.

This is the current state:

PS: When will we have dev.to's API? I want a Terminal client! :D

My Go (Golang) Adventure

Nahuel Jesús Sacchetti — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 03:20:54 +0000

It's been three days I started with Go. I got caught with it because some chit-chatting with a friend, which is almost the only way I start with this kind of things (probably because my lack of creativity, I need a trigger).

Can't really say much with 3 days of programming but I've been having lots of fun with the code, even though there are some things that I don't like (but they are just code styling like the lack of semi-colons and the fact that standard is "use the tab character") but then I've got used to it.

Setting up Emacs

Spent some time Friday afternoon to setup my Emacs for Go. It was quite easy, specially because the godoc page already explains it.

My first program

I started with the all famous "hello, world" but then, right away, implemented the http package and doing requests to different APIs. Started to play with the os package and the Stdin as well as the arguments passed to the program. All these because I already know what I want.

I want to create a terminal application to navigate through Twitter inspired on Michael Lazar's rtv (which is a reddit terminal browser). I used to use twittering-mode on Emacs but I'm starting to move all these perks outside Emacs now so I need a way to read my Twitter feed.

Then, I got distracted

I found some bindings for OpenGL and the SDL library and had some fun opening windows and rendering funny quotes from the foaas.com API (warning, strong language). Well, the weekend is to have fun, right?

The Go Programming Language

I immediately bought Donovan's and Kernighan's The Go Programming Language and doing great progress so far. Not too much deep into reading but I find it fun and easy to read. It goes super-well with my the approach I take when learning a new language.

Moving forward

I'm liking Go a lot! I'm looking forward to deep learn this language and have my terminal Twitter app up and running. I already got my hands on termbox ;)

Usando Emacs, los primeros 5 dÃas

Nahuel Jesús Sacchetti — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 23:09:06 +0000

Nota: Esta publicaciÃ³n ya tiene mÃ¡s de 2 meses de antigÃ¼edad, la traje de mi antiguo blog. Fecha original de la publicaciÃ³n: 2 de junio de 2017

Note: This post is already more than 2 month old, it comes from my old blog. Original post date: June 2nd 2017. And yeah, it's in Spanish.

Como competencia sana entre compaÃ±eros de trabajo decidimos probar Emacs. Algunos de ellos usan Vim, de hecho lo hacen realmente bien, y yo lo habÃa usado anteriormente.
Nuestros primeros pasos fueron leer sobre Emacs y la clÃ¡sica y antigua “Editor war”. Lo tomamos como el punto de partida, para darle mÃ¡s diversiÃ³n aÃºn al asunto. Una serie de tweets y un grupo de discusiÃ³n en WhatsApp lo hicieron aÃºn mÃ¡s divertido.
Y asÃ es como empezÃ³ mi lunes. DescarguÃ© Emacs, le di un par de vueltas y comencÃ© a usarlo. AprendÃ que era un buffer y que iba a usar el Control y el Alt bastante seguido. EmpecÃ© a buscar charlas y artÃculos sobre Emacs. Ya para el dÃa martes tenÃa mi primera configuraciÃ³n, un archivo .emacs en mi carpeta de usuario del sistema operativo que no sÃ³lo estaba desordenado, sino que era inentendible.

MiÃ©rcoles fue diferente. EmpecÃ© a reordenar mi configuraciÃ³n para que quede legible y funcional y la subÃ a un repositorio aunque no la pude usar a la primera, ya que me faltaban ciertas claves importantes, que tenÃa que trasladar desde ese .emacs. Para jueves mi configuraciÃ³n estaba lista para ser usada, mi idea de hacer la carpeta de Emacs (.emacs.d) un repositorio fue realmente buena, ya que todas las modificaciones que hacÃa las tenÃa inmediatamente en mis otras estaciones de trabajo.
Hoy se cumplen 5 dÃas en los que sÃ³lo uso Emacs como editor, y de a poco voy usÃ¡ndolo para otras cosas, prÃ³ximamente escribirÃ© este blog desde ahÃ.