I just wanted to pass a file name as a string to an external application. Thats all. Just that. In bash, you could just use a case statement. In rc shell, a switch. But in emacs world, the common convention is to install a massively over engineered super bloated package to do it. Leading me to get pissed off enough to discover 18 lines of elisp in a single autoloaded function is all it takes to replace all of those massively bloated, over-engineered packages.

i cant believe how bad chatgpt is at elisp.

Happy New Arbitrary Solar Orbit Reset! 🙂❤️🎉🥳🎊🍾

i love these interviews. A Greek ex-soccer player turned emacs contributor living off grid in the Cyprus mountains, interviewing people from little towns in other countries. Its so.... not the mainstream internet. Its a window into real people.

if you use orgmode, and your documents are long, check out the consult-org-heading function in the Consult package. Fuzzy finding for all headings in the document. 👍