TYtyingq·Dec 31, 2021
If you <ctrl-f> and search for "newline", you can see some of the hackery they do to get around newlines in file names:
https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/dired...
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 1 | 7 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 1 | 7 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 19 | 3 | 16 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 1 | 7 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 1 | 7 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 10 | 1 | 9 |
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8 sourcesDetailed changelog here: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/etc/NEWS.2...
In The Emacs-28 release branch has been createdThere is already a de facto standard for extended codes: Xterm's modifyOtherKeys.
Applications:
https://vimhelp.org/map.txt.html#modifyOtherKeys
https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/d68f2b8681f8eeb6b...
https://github.com/akinomyoga/ble.sh
https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/commit/47c0d2038807757207cd...
https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Modifier-Keys#extended-key...
https://github.com/magiblot/tvision/commit/a50569f549465c9ed...
Terminals:
xterm (obviously)
https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/commit/ac1aa575011028ed86...
https://github.com/r-c-f/foot
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/commit/d360d077d1f7723b1...
https://github.com/tomszilagyi/zutty
https://github.com/mintty/mintty/blob/master/wiki/CtrlSeqs.m...
In Raw keyboard handling in Unix terminals... but emacs itself is implemented in C: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/tree/master/src (and I don't think anyone would call the LISP parts of it fast in any meaningful usage of the term - just loading some semi-heavy config can take observable time even on a 2021 computer)
In Java for Everything (2014)https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/play/...
1997 is actually later than I would've thought.
In Hooking keyboard input to play Snake in Notepad.exe (2020)https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/etc/NEWS.2... says, "This is a bug-fix release with no new features." But I don't understand what the bugs were.
In Emacs 27.2I suspect I encountered the same bug (in vanilla Emacs). It seems in Emacs 27 they introduced support for sql-indent-mode[1][2] which is not shipped by default but is in elpa. However there is a hook that checks if that package is installed, if so then loads it by default. It seems when not installed, somehow said hook messes things up in org-mode.
Thanks to some investigative work from Doom Emacs people[3][4], I have found that my issue was fixed by simply installing the sql-indent package. Of course you would need to make sure these settings are set to true to enable tab acting according to native mode in source code blocks:
(setq org-src-tab-acts-natively t)
(setq org-src-preserve-indentation t)
(setq org-src-fontify-natively t)
And yes, I wasn't amused by this. I had another problem with shell mode indentation in org source bl
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ocks as well. That said, while the lack of cohesion due to decentralised nature of Emacs development occasionally surfaces like this, I think it would be unfair to not mention that org-mode when not buggy - which is more often than not - makes a lot of great features accessible. For instance, it automatically connects to Postgres, runs my query fragment, and populates an org-mode table (which are awesome) with the resulting output - I find this feature invaluable.
Oh and if you are a Spacemacs user, perhaps give Doom Emacs a try.
[1] https://github.com/alex-hhh/emacs-sql-indent
[2] https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/etc/NEWS.2...
[3] https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs/issues/3787
[4] https://github.com/alex-hhh/emacs-sql-indent/issues/96