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diff --git a/2023/talks/eat.md b/2023/talks/eat.md index e917460d..bd548153 100644 --- a/2023/talks/eat.md +++ b/2023/talks/eat.md @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Outline: ## Questions and answers - Q: Have you thought about upstreaming EAT? - - A: Yes, but I haven\'t yet completed the copyright paperwork. + - A: Yes, but I haven't yet completed the copyright paperwork. - S: Look into it, I think it would be great to have a better implementation of a terminal OOTB! - Q: Very impressive! What lessons did you learn while developing @@ -79,9 +79,9 @@ Outline: - Q: Did you have any experience with terminal emulation before working on EAT? - A:Not much really. I mean I knew how terminals worked - but I didn\'t know the escape sequences. + but I didn't know the escape sequences. - Q:Impressive work; I look forward to trying it. What did you want - that Vterm did not provide? I think I\'ll try it today. + that Vterm did not provide? I think I'll try it today. - A:The keybindings, specially. And also I wanted Eshell terminal emulation. - Q: Is Elisp native-compilation what allows EAT to peform as well as @@ -93,21 +93,21 @@ Outline: - A:Yes. - Q: What does EAT do differently than other terminal emulators that allows it to perform so well? - - A:I don\'t really know quite clearly. At the time I implemented + - A:I don't really know quite clearly. At the time I implemented the main code, I had plenty of time. I did profiling and tried various implementations to do the same thing. - Q: what sparked your interest in Emacs, considering its often perceived as outdated, and how do its powerful capabilities remain relevant today? - - A: First of all, it\'s free software, I have the freedom. And + - A: First of all, it's free software, I have the freedom. And the IDEs I used to use were resource hogs, so needed something lightweight. And, after I started using Emacs, I discovered how powerful it actually is. Emacs is itself a programming platform, so you can make literally anything with it. - Q: have you thought about making EAT work with shell-mode? - A: Yes, I have considered integrating with shell-mode/Comint but - it doesn\'t work, they need the terminal text to be mutable and - Eat doesn\'t support that. So I have implemented \"line mode,\" + it doesn't work, they need the terminal text to be mutable and + Eat doesn't support that. So I have implemented "line mode," an input mode similar to shell-mode. - Q: did the talk show how to show sixel? |