ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory

snikeris 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

This is cool.

While we're discussing optimizing emacs keybindings...I've found it key to have my bindings set up such that my thumbs operate the control modifier key.

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Jeff_Brown 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Something I love about emacs is the ability to tab complete the name of a command. I do know a lot of keyboard shortcuts, but I use way, way more commands than I know the shortcut for. Need to rename a buffer? M-x ren-buf TAB should do it. Etc.

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setopt 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Me to, but to be fair, I think this is no longer unique to Emacs. See for example the "command palette" in VSCode; it isn’t "tab completion" per se but similar to e.g. M-x with Vertico.

	▲	BeetleB an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Probably he's referring to "fuzzy find"? Yes, VSCode has something similar, I believe. But Emacs had it before VSCode existed ;-)
	▲	goodmythical 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I was thinking I was crazy...I use command completion in lots of different applications...

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tra3 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Are there any similar tools for the OS as a whole?

I'm trying to switch to Corne keyboards and the key maps are critical.

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lorenzohess 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This looks great. Would there be an easy way to generalize this program to tiling window managers? Maybe initially I can use this by modifying the WM to forward all its keybindings to a dummy Emacs instance. For WMs is the entropy theory also applicable?

	▲	oritron 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Some people use Emacs /as a tiling window manager/ :) https://github.com/emacs-exwm/exwm
	▲	sammy0910 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		it should be -- as long as you have like the right logging set up, I think the theory would also be applicable. currently the calculations in this library are done with a clojure jar, so if you're interested, you might have an easier time calling that directly

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aghilmort 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

this is great / will try!