emacs is nice and all until you find it does some very irritating behaviour and nobody knows how to prevent it...

@ljs come to the dark side, we have cookies!

I did find a way of preventing said behaviour :P (to do with where pop up frames appear)

With an ultra wide monitor you have to sort of adapt a bit

Now I'm really glad I'm not bi, so I don't have to be afraid of being sort of adapted by @ljs

🍷

@ptesarik Lol well as open as I am to those of all proclivities, being a boring straight guy your adaption is not something that would happen :P so you can relax! 🍷

@ljs So, which bi did you sort of adapt, if I may ask?

@ptesarik bipolar between rage and happiness this is called emacs

@ljs EMACS stands for Escape Meta Alt Control Shift. For my part, I can play those keys in rapid succession, even inserting trills on some letter keys, but yes, I believe the UI was invented for pianists.

@ptesarik those with big pianists yes.

cc: @lkundrak

@ptesarik @ljs
Some onlookers *might* take that seriously, so for the record, that's a humorous backronym.

EMACS originally stood for "Editor MACros" (it was implemented as macros for the Teco editor).

I just finished a series of corrections of mistatements about computing history in another thread, so forgive me for being overly serious here; I'm on a roll.

@dougmerritt @ptesarik no it stands for Eat big MACS

Sorry but you're just wrong, nack

@ljs @ptesarik
I thought you were still on a hamster food diet?

@dougmerritt @ljs Thank you. I tend to forget I'm no longer the youngest Linux developer among bearded hackers who obviously know all history because they were making it in the first place.

@ptesarik @ljs
I can't tell if that's sarcasm or not, but I'll take it either way.

@dougmerritt @ptesarik yeah only in my editor can I eat shit sadly :(

@dougmerritt @ljs I am being dead serious. I am now surrounded by many younger people who do not understand many jokes I make.

@ptesarik @ljs
I share your pain.

@ljs @dougmerritt You must be cheating. I have just looked and there's no big-mac major mode in all of MELPA! 😡

@ljs Jokes aside, popwin.el is really good at this.

@ptesarik @ljs Funny, I thought it was for Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping. Unfortunately, that was long time ago, and now emacs lags even on 4-core, 3GB machine... I'm using "mg" on some of those.

@pavel @ptesarik I have 192 GB and 32 cores.

Now I can run emacs (mostly)

@ljs @ptesarik Actually, emacs is fine on on Thinkpad X220, and is also fine on Thinkpad X60. But for some reason, it does not like PinePhone. Dunno, either emacs is getting fat too quickly, or PinePhone has too small cache or something. Anyway, learning to use mg would be good idea long term...

@ljs

Is it that alternative OS with weird text editor? How does its memory management work?

@ptesarik @pavel

@djasa @ptesarik @pavel lol it doesn't work hence the need for more ram

@ljs @djasa @pavel D'oh. So I may not be able to patent my kfree(), becase emacs apparently contains prior art…