Hacker News: kickingvegas

New comment by kickingvegas in "Hello Worg, the Org-Mode Community"

kickingvegas — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:00:30 +0000

NGL, Worg is terrible at explaining what it does and what it is for. And this sentiment is coming from someone who uses Org mode daily and has contributed to Worg.

Casual Org

kickingvegas — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:35:22 +0000

Article URL: http://yummymelon.com/devnull/announcing-casual-org.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47081375

Points: 1

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Thoughts on Funding Free Software Development

kickingvegas — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 02:13:39 +0000

Article URL: http://yummymelon.com/devnull/thoughts-on-funding-free-software-development.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45923090

Points: 1

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New comment by kickingvegas in "Casual Ediff"

kickingvegas — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:57:13 +0000

Announcing Casual Ediff, with enhancements to support viewing changes to a version-controlled file and to resolve merge conflicts from Emacs.

Casual Ediff

kickingvegas — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:57:13 +0000

Article URL: http://yummymelon.com/devnull/announcing-casual-ediff.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45760760

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by kickingvegas in "IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)"

kickingvegas — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 04:08:33 +0000

FWIW, I started a project last year to build Transient menus for major Emacs modes called “Casual” to address discoverability. Interested readers can find more info about it here: https://kickingvegas.github.io/casual/

Casual BibTeX

kickingvegas — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 02:49:40 +0000

Article URL: http://yummymelon.com/devnull/announcing-casual-bibtex.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45368763

Points: 1

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A proof of concept to put a better Emacs UI on top of Gnuplot

kickingvegas — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 01:29:18 +0000

Article URL: http://yummymelon.com/devnull/a-proof-of-concept-to-put-a-better-emacs-ui-on-top-of-gnuplot.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45009368

Points: 12

# Comments: 0

New comment by kickingvegas in "Emacs as your video-trimming tool"

kickingvegas — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 23:12:35 +0000

We are out here.

New comment by kickingvegas in "Emacs as your video-trimming tool"

kickingvegas — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:52:43 +0000

Nostalgia no more! Midnight Commander/4DOS style file management can be achieved with Emacs Dired today and then some.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Di...

For your consideration, I built a keyboard-driven menu interface for Dired called Casual to help with discovery. https://kickingvegas.github.io/casual/Dired.html

Unleashing the Editing Superpower of Emacs

kickingvegas — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 21:12:04 +0000

Article URL: http://yummymelon.com/devnull/unleashing-the-editing-superpower-of-emacs.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44728310

Points: 16

# Comments: 0

New comment by kickingvegas in "Take Two: Eshell"

kickingvegas — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 17:15:15 +0000

FWIW, for just "using" Emacs, I wrote a number of keyboard-driven menus for different modes called Casual. Read all about it here: https://github.com/kickingvegas/casual

For understanding Elisp, I wrote an "Elisp Cheetsheet for Python Programmers" to help as a reference.

https://github.com/kickingvegas/elisp-for-python