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I'm not an expert in Magit by any means, but I bet there's a way to accomplish this in only a few keystrokes.

I've often wondered when Emacs would become the term used to describe hyper-personalized software. While it is true that LLMs give access to software that fits like a glove, it seems to me that there is still a glaring difference -- at least when one looks at GNU Emacs: a shared software tradition. To my knowledge [1], LLMs don't provide that.

Maybe it's best to call this movement in LLM-generated software "software individualism" rather than "personal software"?

[1] I don't know much as I haven't vibecoded before, and my .emacs is painfully crafted by hand.

I wonder what sort of monstrous power would be unleashed if Google used Plan9 as a foundation.

I agree re. LaTeX. I've tried Typst for some complex projects, and it's just not quite there yet. ConTeXt on the other hand ... chef's kiss.

I've heard the same re. the Irish.

Regarding the Novus Ordo, I believe that the key document from Vatican II (Sacrosanctum Concilium) still preferred Latin as the dominant language in liturgy, while readings etc. stayed in the vernacular, but clearly that is not what happened.

There's been an uptick in numbers for Tridentine Rite, so tides might shift back as Catholics realize the wealth of their liturgical tradition.

Thanks for sharing this! My wife and I have been interested in refreshing our Latin from high school, and we've been looking for good resources.

We've also toyed with the idea of learning it as a living language, which seems to be an increasingly-popular method among autodidacts these days.

Emacs is a seemingly [0] excellent compromise between modern TUIs and accessibility since it keeps the text-centric paradigm but allows for much cleaner accessibility. [1]

[0]: I do not need any accessibility features myself.

[1] https://diesenbacher.net/blog/entries/speaking-emacs.html

Around 15 years ago I would typeset orders of service in tex for our college chapel

Your chapel was very fortunate.

Happy to share! There's nothing quite as distracting as a blurry scan of a chant/hymn.

You might be interested in an online editor [1] for small items. (I haven't used it much, but it seems good.)

[1] https://www.sourceandsummit.com/editor/alpha/

If anyone is interested in playing around with this wonderful tool, there's an online editor (edit: no affiliation). [1] It is much more responsive than compiling in TeX.

[1] https://www.sourceandsummit.com/editor/alpha/

I'm not sure why this is on Hacker News, and I'm even less sure why the papacy is so important to MAGA right now.

In any case, perhaps we will soon see the return of Catholic persecution in the U.S. due to "conflicting" loyalties between Pope and country...

Djot is great so far, and I'm eager to switch to it from Pandoc Markdown since editor support for Pandoc Markdown is lacking.

Looking at the repo's issues, I'm a bit concerned that it's already fragmented since some enthusiasts have implemented features far beyond, or against, Djot's spec. People seem impatient for v1.0...

I wonder if I'll ever see the day when Emacs's several terminal implementations are unified. How nice would it be if one could use term.el with libvterm, libghostty etc. as a backend?

On another note, as a light terminal user, I've had great success with MisTTY. [1]

[1] https://github.com/szermatt/mistty

That is usually configurable at the terminal level

And if you use Emacs, it's configurable at the buffer level. [1] This lets me build a version of Iosevka where `~=` and `!=` both become ligaturized but in different major modes, avoiding any confusion.

[1] https://github.com/mickeynp/ligature.el