Re: [emacs-tangents] 2024-10-28 Emacs news

[James Thomas]

Sacha Chua wrote:

>  * TheMKat: Read documentation from the comfort of Emacs - man-pages,
>  developer documentation and more

>> Man-pages in Emacs
>> ..
>> tldr - More concise version of man-pages
>> ..
>> DevDocs - More long-form documentation

The built-in info in better for the last one IMO, if you can manage it:

https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2023/Mar/creating-info-manuals-and-adding-them-into-emacs/

>  * Magit amend commit author (@xenodium@indieweb.social)

>> Use Magit to amend git commit author.

For those of us who prefer VC (or command-line):

(with server-start and EDITOR=emacsclient)
M-& git rebase -i <commit>
Add the line (as per the instructions shown), wherever:
exec git commit --amend --author="name <email>"
C-x # (or M-x server-edit-abort)

>  * Irreal: What Keyboard Are You Using With Emacs

>> feel free to jump in and share what you’re using.

An ordinary one, but with the extra keys remapped so that Ctrl is there
on both palms and Alt on both thumbs.

>  * Keynote presentation by Hal Abelson and Gerald Sussman at the
>  fourteenth RacketCon -

(b^_^)b

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