▲ 1 ▼ After many years of neglect, I've updated thinks (fosstodon.org) submitted 7 months ago by davep@fosstodon.org to c/programming@fedia.io 3 comments fedilink hide all child comments After many years of neglect, I've updated thinks.el to tidy up some frowned-upon #Emacs #Lisp practices. (I'm still kind of upset about it)blog.davep.org/2026/03/31/thin#programming
[–] tfb@functional.cafe 1 point 7 months ago (2 children) @davep Oh heck, I also make heavy use of setf in elisp permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] davep@fosstodon.org [S] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child) @tfb Yeah, I think it's a really elegant approach. To be clear, the issue is various generalised variables being deprecated: github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/ -- but (self (buffer-string) ...) and stuff was always the way for me. :-/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] tfb@functional.cafe 1 point 7 months ago @davep (setf point) and (setf buffer-string) were particularly good ones. I'll live, but it seems so unnecessary to get rid of :akko_shrug: permalink fedilink source parent
[–] davep@fosstodon.org [S] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child) @tfb Yeah, I think it's a really elegant approach. To be clear, the issue is various generalised variables being deprecated: github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/ -- but (self (buffer-string) ...) and stuff was always the way for me. :-/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] tfb@functional.cafe 1 point 7 months ago @davep (setf point) and (setf buffer-string) were particularly good ones. I'll live, but it seems so unnecessary to get rid of :akko_shrug: permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tfb@functional.cafe 1 point 7 months ago @davep (setf point) and (setf buffer-string) were particularly good ones. I'll live, but it seems so unnecessary to get rid of :akko_shrug: permalink fedilink source parent