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xah-fly-keys
Emacs Lisp2017–2023
xahlee / xah-fly-keys

xah-fly-keys

the most efficient keybinding for emacs

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the most efficient keybinding for emacs

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2017-02-19 17:42:13 UTC to 2023-02-14 20:12:57 UTC.

0122017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023

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20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

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eggy·Feb 14, 2023
Ha, yes, Lisp is the strange attractor or gravity well I always flow back into after trying other PLs. Don't get me wrong, I like Zig (to replace my old C ways), SPARK2014 (which has achieved what Rust is evolving towards), and my other loves - J and APL. That is why April was a binary black hole - the joy of Lisp with a REPL, a lot of libraries and legacy, symbolic processing, and the ability to embed diamonds of APL in the parentheses for the mathy parts. I just have plain, old fun when I open up Lisp. Immediate evaluation and hotloading code with a great IDE/editor in emacs/sly. I am learning Xah's Fly keys[1] to bring it all together to satisfy my modal thirst from vim in emacs. Clojure is a lot of fun too, and opens up a lot of libraries to use. Dragan Rocks[2] has some great libs for ML/DL Mark Watson is the main culprit for writin
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g his book and having the nerve to publish it: Common LISP Modules: Artificial Intelligence in the Era of Neural Networks and Chaos Theory[3] I had been superficially studying AI then - GAs, ANNS, chaos and complexity - back in the late 80s, and this book introduced me to Lisp. Mark is sometimes on here, so Mark, thank you! [1] https://github.com/xahlee/xah-fly-keys [2] https://dragan.rocks/ [3] https://www.amazon.com/Common-LISP-Modules-Artificial-Intell...
In Algorithmic Trading: A Practitioner’s Guide
josephferano·Jan 8, 2023
To build on what others are saying about Emacs, if you start exploring the package ecosystem, you're going to see quite a lot of really interesting packages that are related to improving/experimenting with the UX of editing text. While I'm not endorsing anyone in particular, I think what this list does show is just how easy it is to do pretty much whatever you want in Emacs; https://karthinks.com/software/avy-can-do-anything/ https://github.com/jyp/boon https://github.com/clemera/objed https://github.com/jmorag/kakoune.el https://github.com/meow-edit/meow/ https://github.com/xahlee/xah-fly-keys https://github.com/Kungsgeten/ryo-modal https://github.com/emacsorphanage/god-mode Emacs 29 also now has treesitter and LSP mode integration built-in, a compilation mode, a comint mode for REPLs, excellent file browsing packages (I use dired/dirvis
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h), and a few other killer features. Now, if what you truly dislike are "quirky editors", prepare yourself for a world of hurt because vanilla Emacs departs quite a bit from "modern" text editors. I struggled with this for a while, but eventually by buying into the paradigm, I now feel that when emacs tries emulating "modern" IDE features like autocompletion, LSP, and DAP UI, I feel like it's a regression, not a progression. The point here is that you might have an "idea" of what good initial UX and lack of quirks would look like, but Emacs might change the way you think.
In Ask HN: Best way to experiment with text text editing?
dvdkhlng·Apr 10, 2022
> Long love ergomacs! I recently stumbled over, and started using (and modifying) Xah's "xah-fly-keys" emacs bindings, which are a somewhat more radical implementation of the ideas behind ergoemacs (e.g. use Emacs without any "chording", i.e. without ever having to press two keys at once apart from shift+letter). [1] https://github.com/xahlee/xah-fly-keys
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