Related: I just picked up a new skill ☺

Did you know that when you use #Emacs with #exwm and have #mpv running in a window or frame next to the text document where you write down the lyrics, you can record a macro that switches over to mpv, jumps back by 10 seconds and then switches to your text file again?

Then "10s back please" is just C-x e

And suddenly writing down the lyrics is much more convenient -- saving enough time that you can write a toot explaining how you did it ☺

❤️

When i first heard about #exwm from #systemcrafters i thought i need to give it try but i was using wayland and it didn't have anything like that at a time. now we can lot of things similar to it

one being

https://github.com/emskin/emskin

emskin wraps Emacs inside a nested Wayland compositor so that any program — browsers, terminals, video players, etc. — can be embedded into Emacs windows as if they were native buffers.

GitHub - emskin/emskin: Nested Wayland compositor for Emacs

Nested Wayland compositor for Emacs. Contribute to emskin/emskin development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

@rafaelm7o Heh, no. That essay with the click-baity title (https://howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/new-window-manager.html) described an experiment only, as Chris Feng had not started the #exwm project at that time.
https://github.com/emacs-exwm/exwm

(I do like to think my essay might have inspired that project, tho)

Emacs is My New Window Manager

Gave #exwm a try again. I really like it in theory, but in practice I just find it a lot more messy than i3/sway...

@divyaranjan
yay, too many awesome things happening for emacs in 2026.

https://codeberg.org/ezemtsov/ewm/

Had been waiting for emacs wayland compositor, and it came live.

rassumfrassum, Futur, canvas API, Pale, EWM... what's next?

#ewm #exwm #wayland

ewm

EWM - Emacs Wayland Manager

Codeberg.org

Something changed recently(?) that #Emacs no longer recognizes the compose key, but other apps do. To be fair, how I've bound it between xmodmap and Emacs is overloaded.

xmodmap: plain capslock is mapped to super, capslock+shift is mapped to compose

Emacs: super+shift+(f/b/n/p) moves windows around

So if I'm hitting capslock+shift, it's ambiguous if that's compose or if it's super+shift+…

But it worked until... recently? And it still works in #EXWM windows, just not regular Emacs windows.

@tfb My fallback WM, when for some reason exwm doesn't work for me, is StumpWM: Common LISP based so sympathetic to Emacs.

#Emacs #TilingWindowManager #exwm #StumpWM

I finally have the perfect social media setup for my wide monitors with exwm as the window manager!

#exwm #Emacs

Petite question pour les utilisateurs d’#emacs et d’#android ici, qu’est-ce que vous utilisez comme gestionnaire de mots de passe avec un client disponible pour les deux et auto-hebergeable?

J’utilisais #passwordstore qui me convenait parfaitement mais le client android n’est plus maintenu :(

Pour l’instant je teste #vaultwarden mais je trouve le client bureau de #bitwarden pas super pratique à utiliser, c’est trop pensé pour une navigation à la souris et ça rend l’utilisation beaucoup moins fluide que ce que j’ai actuellement.

Password-store encore une fois a un super paquet pour emacs qui me permet en un raccourci clavier de lancer le client, rechercher mon mot de passe, le copier et à nouveau avec le premier raccourci de rebasculer sur l’appli ou j’étais avant (j’utilise #exwm comme environnement de bureau)

Je n’ai pas vu de client natif emacs pour bitwarden, la meilleure piste que je vois c’est le paquet #emacs-bitwarden (https://github.com/seanfarley/emacs-bitwarden?tab=readme-ov-file) qui est en fait un wrapper pour le client en ligne de commande bw et qui permet d’intégrer bitwarden comme auth-source en mode lecture seule.

Ceci-dit les vraies fonctionalités de partage de mots de passe et d’organisation de vaultwarden sont plutôt attirantes.

Avant de me lancer à fond sur vaultwarden je voudrais être sûr qu’il n’y a pas d’autre solution évidente que j’aurais zappée…

#autohebergement #secrets #motdepasse

@amy I have a bunch of #exwm simulation keys too but never thought to do C-x h, good idea!

For M-f/M-b I map them to C-left and C-right. I also have C-d to delete, C-k to S-end and delete, C-y to C-v, M-w to C-c and a few others.

One challenge is to make C-s work similarly to isearch so that the same key can both initiate the search and search again. I try to do that by sending both C-f and C-g but it's not always perfect.