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agzam / spacehammer

spacehammer

Spacemacs|Doom inspired Hammerspoon modal toolkit

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Spacemacs|Doom inspired Hammerspoon modal toolkit

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I'm a big fan of hammerspoon, but not so much Lua. I also use emacs with Doom, where a lot of bindings are behind a 'leader key'. I found an awesome framework called…

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2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	6	0	6
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
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iLemming·Dec 16, 2019

Hammerspoon is awesome, can't even imagine how difficult it would be without it. I've built Spacemacs inspired config so I can do everything and still keep my fingers in the home row https://github.com/agzam/spacehammer - Tossing windows around? - Controlling music? - Jumping between apps? - Adding more convenient shortcuts for your favorite apps? - Editing any text anywhere with your favorite editor? Why not modality then?

In Hammerspoon – macOS automation with Lua

iLemming·Dec 16, 2019

If you like Fennel, you're gonna like Spacehammer - Spacemacs inspired Hammerspoon config written in Fennel. https://github.com/agzam/spacehammer

In Hammerspoon – macOS automation with Lua

wilsonmitchell·Dec 16, 2019

I recently picked up this tool and picked up someone's config that does some modal keybindings similar to spacemacs [1]. It actually inspired me to hack around with their config and then write a spacemacs layer for fennel-mode which someone had written a decent version of already [2]. I'm a bit of an emacs and fennel noob, but it seemed like a fun little problem to solve. I'm especially interested in getting autocomplete working better. I've been trying to base things off of other lisps' layers, but all ears for any tips on how to approach it. I'll edit in my github later as I have everything local at the moment. [1] https://github.com/agzam/spacehammer [2] https://gitlab.com/technomancy/fennel-mode

In Hammerspoon – macOS automation with Lua

iLemming·Dec 3, 2019

Hey fellow Vimmers. If you (just like me) have to use Mac to do your work, you may find this little project of mine interesting https://github.com/agzam/spacehammer. It's a Hammerspoon config inspired by Spacemacs, written in Fennel. Readme doesn't really describe every cool feature, I need to record a screencast, but I've been swamped with work lately.

In Big Pile of Vim-Like

iLemming·Jun 2, 2019

check out this project https://github.com/agzam/spacehammer. I wish something like Hammerspoon existed for Linux.

In A Tiling Desktop Environment

iLemming·Feb 12, 2019

Let me try to explain what so awesome about this project and why I have chosen it instead of other, more popular WMs. The function of a window manager like managing windows to me is kind of secondary - more important is to have a complete keyboard-driven workflow. What this exactly means to me is the ability to manage as much possible with keeping fingers on the "home row", ideally without having to touch mouse or arrow keys at all. Is that achievable? Without having to introduce plethora of different keybindings? Yes, that's possible with modality. So for example: I want to be able to control my music volume by pressing `j` and `k`. And move windows up and down also by using `j` and `k`. And resize windows vertically, again, by `j` and `k`. And move windows across multiple monitors, and resize font in my browser, scroll up and down in my

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pdf viewer, etc. etc. Sounds crazy? Well, maybe. But I promise you, once you get used to it - you wouldn't want to go back to your ordinary, boring and complicated old way. My main work machine is a Mac and fortunately for OSX there's an automation tool called Hammerspoon. One day I wrote a nice config inspired by Spacemacs, so for the lack of better ideas I called it Spacehammer. You can find it here: https://github.com/agzam/spacehammer. To my surprise sadly there's nothing similar to Hammerspoon exists for Linux. Initially I simply wanted something trivial: "how do I rebind `Ctrl+Tab`/`Shift+Ctrl+Tab` to `Win+J`/`Win+K` so I can switch between tabs in my browser more efficiently?". See? `j` and `k` again. Even something simple like that turned out to be difficult to achieve. And AFAIK none of the popular WMs let you do that sort of stuff. With the exception of StumpWM (formerly known as RatPoison). I wanted to try StumpWM but honestly I didn't give a heartfelt attempt to actually use it. I am still skeptical and the main reason is - CommonLisp. It is an amazing language but its popularity has declined drastically and at this point it's pretty much "Latin" of PLs. Yes, it's cool to know it but practicality of that knowledge might be a bit questionable. Learning whole new language for the sake of configuring a window manager doesn't feel very enticing to me. But at some point maybe I will give it a try. Then I found EXWM. And almost immediately regretted not trying it out sooner. It took a few days to configure it and next thing I know I wrote a plugin for it: https://github.com/agzam/exwm-edit. Yes, the project is still young and from time to time you stumble upon some rare quirks. Multimonitor setup is a pain. It doesn't support "gaps" so praised in other WMs - I personally don't care about aesthetics of my WM though. With EXWM everything simply becomes just a buffer in Emacs - your browser, Slack, pdf-viewer, music player - you name it. Because everything goes through Emacs you can create complex keybindings and "simulate" keypresses, for example: you can make `Win+W` to act like `Ctrl+W` in your browser or any other app (no context switching between Mac and Linux). It is indeed an awesome project and if you are an avid Emacsen and seasoned Linux user - I really encourage you to give it a try.

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