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About that, mine loves Munetaka Murakami's fight song https://www.yakyu-ouen.net/murakami-munetaka, so I had plenty of chances to memorize the words.

This is lovely too :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSBT4ES9b9U&list=RDLSBT4ES9b...

edit: Thanks for Angine de Poitrine!

Thanks! It’s an undecorated frame. I wanted a “widget” experience of sorts.

Extra impressive considering he has a newborn at home.

My newborn is on board! Nursery rhymes on YT ftw ;)

Glad to hear it worked as advertised! Sorry, not super familiar with evil (on vanilla keys here). Please send a PR if you find out how to configure for evil so we can document in README.

While most IDEs converged to a unified web solution, pockets of devoted users continued to volunteer improvements/integrations for their preferred editors.

During my time there, a relatively small, but fairly active Emacs group, would often share tips, tricks, and elisp integrating the latest internal tools.

Neat! I did the Emacs equivalent https://github.com/xenodium/video-trimmer

From my experience, you kinda get what you ask for. If you don't ask for anything specific, it'll write as it sees fit. The more you involve yourself in the loop, the more you can get it to write according to your expectation. Also helps to give it a style guide of sorts that follows your preferred style.

Resume is supported by agent-shell, but is dependent on agent's to implement the relevant ACP. Do you know if OpenCode's ACP implementation has listing and resuming session support?

Also, you'll need to enable resuming as per post (it's a new feature) https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-47-1-updates

That's nice to hear. Thank you!

I put off adopting popular agents for most of 2025 primarily because there was no agent-agnostic path to first-class Emacs integration. That changed with ACP (https://agentclientprotocol.com), thus I started working on agent-shell.

I'm happy with how the integration is shaping up, enabling me to have my cake and eat it too (Emacs + AI agents).

I wrote an agent-shell post recently with the latest changes https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-47-1-updates

I've yet to play with Emacs MCPs thoroughly. Having said that, after initial exposure to agent skills directing agents to just use CLI/emacsclient, I no longer think I need to go deeper into MCP. emacsclient via CLI has been working remarkably well. Did a little video on that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymMlftdGx4I

I like LLMs, but guarantees in LLMs are... you know... not guaranteed ;)

It's still not crystal clear to me architecturally is going on

[ Emacs ] <-- JSONRPC (stdin/stdout) -> [ Agent subprocess (headless) ]

I'd love to know how that is wired to the agents; is that input sent over ACP?

Yes. All traffic goes over ACP between Emacs and the agent. You can inspect the traffic using agent-shell itself.

https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell?tab=readme-ov-file#h...

Is that just sending to the shell?

The compose buffer is an UX abstraction on top of the agent shell buffer which is a native Emacs buffer, but ultimately all traffic is sent over ACP.

agent-shell's links to blog posts may be of interest https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell?tab=readme-ov-file#n...

Like with claude-code-ide you can define custom MCP tools that run Emacs commands.

Should be possible in newer versions of agent-shell (see https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell/pull/237)

Keeping your own data as plain text has huge benefits. Having all my chats persistent is good. It's all private.

While agent-shell is much newer than chatgpt-shell, it likely has richer interaction by now (specially the compose interface). I'm veering off topic here... agent-shell now saves all interactions to project/.agent-shell/transcripts as Markdown files. We can totally do org too, but I just haven't gotten to it.

I had been hoarding links/notes to movies/tv shows for some time, saved to a plain text file. Often by sharing links from other apps (ie. Reddit or Letterboxd), paired with hashtags, using an iOS app I built.

Finally extracted the data for these hashtags and fed it to an LLM to organize. I'm happy with the result https://xenodium.com/film-tv-bookmarks-chaos-resolved

Tap pencil to edit card, and then tap on QR code (you should have a choice of using the camera or uploading a QR code).

Great to hear it! Thank you =)

For most of 2025, I ignored popular agents because I wanted to stay within my preferred text editor (Emacs). Thanks to ACP (https://agentclientprotocol.com), I no longer live under a rock ;) I built https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell and now get a native experience. Claude Code works great. If curious what that looks like, I made a video recently https://xenodium.com/bending-emacs-episode-10-agent-shell

There’s this https://orgmode.org/worg/org-syntax.html

I’ve built a handful of org based iOS apps.

While my initial intention was to bring as much org support to iOS as possible (https://plainorg.com), my thinking evolved over time and I gravitated towards a different kind of mobile-optimised experience, and so https://journelly.com was born. I’ve recently added Markdown support too https://xenodium.com/journelly-1-3-released

I use Journelly the most and is also my most popular app.

I have an org scratch pad and also a habit tracking app https://flathabits.com.

Also with ACP (https://agentclientprotocol.com) we can all have a native IDE/editor experience integrating agents, kinda like what LSP brought us.

Even Emacs nuts like me can use agents natively from our beloved editor ;) https://xenodium.com/agent-shell-0-25-updates

These are lovely. I miss some of that ASCII art quirkiness, so I added it to my blogging platform (as ASCII art banners) https://lmno.lol

https://LMNO.lol Drag and drop your markdown to the web and get a blog.

Also because the web/blogs lost itself in tracking, bloat, paywalls... and I miss some of the quirkiness.

My blog runs on it: https://xenodium.com

Thank you! That’s wonderful to hear.

I’m an Emacs enthusiast and also build iOS apps powered by org markup.

The more I used my apps, the more I wanted their UX optimised for mobile. This often means completely rethinking the Emacs experience when bringing to mobile.

This is most obvious in my latest app [1]. Org markup fully fades as implementation details. Of all my apps, this is the one I personally use the most. Proudly, I also started getting non-Emacs users interested in org [2].

Anyway, that’s all to say that as an Emacs fan, I want the full Emacs experience on desktop, but when on iPhone, I want fully optimised mobile UX. No meta anything there ;)

[1] https://xenodium.com/journelly-like-tweeting-but-for-your-ey...

[2] https://ellanew.com/ptpl/157-2025-05-19-journelly-is-org-for...

I’d say if you feel comfortable with Doom, keep at it. Coming from vim, it may be a smoother transition. You can always reconsider at any time. Doom is Emacs just as vanilla is.

Ah yes. I find the ⌘ key placement a little more ergonomic/convenient, but at the end of the day, pick whatever works for ya.

Thinking back, I prolly didn't use those two commands often enough to internalize M-| or M-% bindings, so the system-level handling didn't bother me. While I do replace things all the time, I typically use multiple cursors (I do use bindings for that). If I need querying, I just type `M-x que RET` which gets picked up by a completion frameworks (in my case ivy).

Relatedly, I also use Hammerspoon on macOS and set some global key bindings using the ⌥ key.

Welcome to Emacs!

- I write about Emacs things fairly frequently: https://xenodium.com

- I started making Emacs videos recently: https://www.youtube.com/xenodium

- For aggregated Emacs blogs, check out https://planet.emacslife.com

- For aggregated Emacs videos, https://emacs.tv

- The Emacs subreddit can be handy too https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs

- If on the fediverse, follow the #emacs hashtag

- Sacha Chua's Emacs News are great https://sachachua.com/blog/category/emacs-news

With respect to "modern", maybe these two posts could be of interest:

- Visual tweaks: https://xenodium.com/my-emacs-eye-candy

- macOS tricks: https://xenodium.com/awesome-emacs-on-macos

Enjoy the ride!

With agent shell it feels so much more integrated and natural.

That's great to hear.

I wish that agent-shell-sidebar had some screenshots though so I could see what it actually does.

I nudged the package author for a screenshot. Having said that, you can see it in action here: https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell/pull/55