is it overkill to use a combination of straight.el and use-package for an org-publish project? i just want a relatively new version of the org package.

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Emacs Help: Using Spacemacs, I get these tooltips that remain always on top even when I switch to a different application.

They're not what Emacs calls "Tooltips", those depend on the mouse position. These ones are based on the cursor position. Also, I have a setting to show tooltips in the echo area `(setq tooltip-use-echo-area t)`.

Does anybody know what their name is and how to configure them? Thanks!

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@pixelate

I recently converted to 'jinx' from flycheck'. It's quicker, easier, 'smaller and less complicated.

Not sure about Helm integration though.

https://github.com/minad/jinx

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#EmacsHelp I'm new to #emacs and for some strange reason, each time I try to visit a pdf, Emacs refuses to open it, leaving me with the message "Opened XXX.pdf" in external program, even though the pdf is not opened at all. I'm trying to open it with doc-view on both my Debian 12 and Fedora 40 machines and I get the same result. I installed the pdf-tools package on Fedora and did pdf-tools-install but it doesn't work, still the same message. Both machines have mupdf installed.

I use this config: https://github.com/pprevos/emacs-writing-studio/blob/master/init.el

emacs-writing-studio/init.el at master · pprevos/emacs-writing-studio

Emacs configuration for authors who research, write and publish articles, books and websites. - pprevos/emacs-writing-studio

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#Elpaca can't install #magit for me right now and I have no idea what the output means.

seq --version spits back I'm version 9.3 so kinda at a loss here

I'm wondering if anyone can tell me how to do this thing; sorry I don't really have the language to describe it. When I open several files by typing "emacs A B C D", I get two windows, one with file D and one with the buffer list. When I close file D, I would LIKE to have it replaced with file C, and so on through all the files. Instead it jumps to the *scratch* buffer. Is there a way to do what I want it to do? #emacsHelp #emacs