From 4a7f1259da03ee30c4b30df8b8229d7dc8f55fb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: EmacsConf Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2023 13:00:19 -0500 Subject: Automated commit --- 2023/info/overlay-after.md | 430 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2023/info/overlay-before.md | 30 +++- 2 files changed, 459 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to '2023/info') diff --git a/2023/info/overlay-after.md b/2023/info/overlay-after.md index 73285e87..6bb8bb97 100644 --- a/2023/info/overlay-after.md +++ b/2023/info/overlay-after.md @@ -1,6 +1,436 @@ + +# Transcript + +[[!template new="1" text="""Hi, I'm Jeff Trull, and today I'm going to talk to you""" start="00:00:00.000" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""about improving C++ compiler diagnostics""" start="00:00:04.898" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""using overlays and other features from Emacs.""" start="00:00:08.460" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""First an overview of my talk.""" start="00:00:13.600" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""I'm going to cover what overlays are""" start="00:00:15.840" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""and how you can use them in code,""" start="00:00:17.657" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""then I'm going to talk about C++""" start="00:00:19.326" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""and why its compiler errors can be so onerous.""" start="00:00:21.479" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Finally, we'll take that information""" start="00:00:24.480" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""and build a new minor mode""" start="00:00:26.751" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""using overlays and other Emacs features.""" start="00:00:28.448" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template new="1" text="""First of all, overlays.""" start="00:00:33.560" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""What are they?""" start="00:00:35.520" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""They are objects consisting of a buffer range""" start="00:00:36.680" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""and a set of properties.""" start="00:00:39.125" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""That means that they cover a region in a buffer.""" start="00:00:40.400" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""The properties can be a certain set""" start="00:00:43.120" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""of special property names,""" start="00:00:45.534" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""in which case they can be used to cause""" start="00:00:47.345" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""special effects in the buffer,""" start="00:00:50.289" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""but they never change the underlying text.""" start="00:00:52.570" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""You can use them for things like hiding things.""" start="00:00:55.660" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""So, for example, overlays are working right now""" start="00:00:59.900" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""in this window. `org-present`,""" start="00:01:02.887" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""the technology I'm using for this presentation,""" start="00:01:04.661" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""is hiding the asterisk before every headline,""" start="00:01:07.596" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""as well as the things called emphasis markers;""" start="00:01:10.032" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""that is, those things that make things look""" start="00:01:12.521" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""monospaced for verbatim, or italic, or bold.""" start="00:01:16.270" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""The special characters we use to mark off those sections""" start="00:01:20.700" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""are also hidden by `org-present` using overlays.""" start="00:01:24.422" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""But those things are still in the buffer""" start="00:01:28.940" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""and they're still visible to code.""" start="00:01:30.602" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""So if I run this little snippet of code down here,""" start="00:01:31.980" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""it's going to go up to the headline "Overlays""" start="00:01:34.922" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""and what they can do," and it's going to tell us""" start="00:01:37.404" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""what's there in the buffer.""" start="00:01:40.052" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Let's go down and run this.""" start="00:01:41.540" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""So according to this code, the contents of the buffer""" start="00:01:45.100" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""to the left of the headline is a star in a space,""" start="00:01:48.958" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""which means that even though we can't see that star,""" start="00:01:51.991" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""it's still there, because it's hidden by an overlay.""" start="00:01:55.205" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""And that's kind of the essence of what overlays are.""" start="00:01:58.220" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template new="1" text="""Let's do a simple overlay example.""" start="00:02:02.500" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""We have some text on the right here,""" start="00:02:04.780" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""which is a famous poem by William Carlos Williams,""" start="00:02:06.720" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""which has been the subject of many memes.""" start="00:02:09.340" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Let's create an overlay that covers it.""" start="00:02:12.180" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""I'll go down here and use this snippet of code here.""" start="00:02:17.860" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""We'll go up to the top, and we'll mark everything""" start="00:02:20.700" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""between `#+BEGIN_VERSE` and `#+END_VERSE`.""" start="00:02:25.919" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""You can see we've created an overlay""" start="00:02:29.540" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""from position 74 to 224.""" start="00:02:33.277" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template new="1" text="""Now we can take that overlay that we already created""" start="00:02:35.700" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""and add a property, in this case a `face` property,""" start="00:02:38.064" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""to change the appearance of the text.""" start="00:02:41.212" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""This is a poem, and it's currently using""" start="00:02:43.540" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""a face that is monospaced,""" start="00:02:46.280" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""and so it looks like a computer program,""" start="00:02:48.084" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""even though it's a poem.""" start="00:02:50.492" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""I think it would be nicer to use something""" start="00:02:51.900" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""with variable-width font, maybe with some serifs.""" start="00:02:54.586" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""So let's give that a try.""" start="00:02:57.980" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Now you can see that the poem looks quite a bit different.""" start="00:03:01.140" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""It looks more like what we'd see in a book.""" start="00:03:03.700" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template new="1" text="""We can also delete overlays.""" start="00:03:10.940" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""So I've named this one.""" start="00:03:13.100" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""So we can just go down and run `delete-overlay`""" start="00:03:15.140" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""and get rid of it, and it'll go back to""" start="00:03:17.766" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""the appearance it had before.""" start="00:03:20.049" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""And there it is.""" start="00:03:22.660" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""It's back to normal.""" start="00:03:23.660" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template new="1" text="""Now, if you're interested in changing all of the verses""" start="00:03:24.660" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""inside an Org Mode file to a different face""" start="00:03:28.474" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""or a different font family,""" start="00:03:31.109" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""this isn't the way you'd really do it.""" start="00:03:32.786" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""I'll just show you that real quick.""" start="00:03:35.060" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""The right way is probably to change the `org-verse` face,""" start="00:03:37.520" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""which is the face used for all of the verse blocks""" start="00:03:43.472" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""inside your Org Mode file.""" start="00:03:48.869" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""And so this is how you do it here:""" start="00:03:51.620" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""`face-remap-add-relative`.""" start="00:03:55.100" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Let's give it a try.""" start="00:03:56.100" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""It worked!""" start="00:03:58.340" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template new="1" text="""There are more advanced things that you can do""" start="00:03:59.540" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""other than just changing fonts.""" start="00:04:01.806" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""There's a whole long list of them in the manual,""" start="00:04:03.300" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""but let's talk about the ones we're going to use today.""" start="00:04:05.544" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template new="1" text="""You can make text invisible, just like `org-present` did.""" start="00:04:12.580" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""The simplest way is to set the `invisible` property to true,""" start="00:04:17.380" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""so here's a code snippet that will do that.""" start="00:04:21.820" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""What we're going to do is""" start="00:04:24.500" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""go and find the word "plums" inside the poem,""" start="00:04:26.160" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""and then we're going to make it invisible""" start="00:04:28.967" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""by creating an overlay that covers it,""" start="00:04:31.285" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""and then setting the invisible property to true.""" start="00:04:33.437" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Boom!""" start="00:04:36.820" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""It's gone.""" start="00:04:37.940" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""We've eaten the plums.""" start="00:04:38.940" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Visibility is a huge topic and very complicated.""" start="00:04:39.940" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""There are powerful mechanisms for using it.""" start="00:04:42.180" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""I suggest reading the manual""" start="00:04:44.220" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""if you'd like to know more about that.""" start="00:04:46.627" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template new="1" text="""Another thing we can do with properties""" start="00:04:49.780" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""is to add text either before or after an overlay.""" start="00:04:52.118" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Since we've made the word "plums" invisible,""" start="00:04:54.980" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""or anything that you make invisible in the buffer,""" start="00:04:57.348" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""if you add text then afterwards,""" start="00:05:00.575" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""it looks like you've replaced the original words""" start="00:05:02.663" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""with new words.""" start="00:05:05.700" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""So let's add a property, a `before-string` property,""" start="00:05:08.220" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""to the overlay that we used before""" start="00:05:12.047" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""to make it seem as though we're eating cherries""" start="00:05:14.194" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""instead of plums.""" start="00:05:17.138" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Boom!""" start="00:05:18.180" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""There it is.""" start="00:05:19.580" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""So that's how you can replace words using overlays.""" start="00:05:22.020" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template new="1" text="""You can also have custom properties""" start="00:05:27.820" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""that you name and then use yourself.""" start="00:05:29.761" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""For example, you can use it to mark regions in the buffer.""" start="00:05:31.700" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""You can also use it to add information""" start="00:05:35.320" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""to regions in the buffer for your own tracking""" start="00:05:38.009" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""in a minor mode or something like that, which we will use.""" start="00:05:41.180" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template new="1" text="""Finally, two notes on properties.""" start="00:05:45.380" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""We've been talking about overlay properties,""" start="00:05:49.620" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""but there's also something called text properties.""" start="00:05:51.951" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Text properties are attached to text in a buffer.""" start="00:05:54.540" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""When you copy that text, the properties come along with it.""" start="00:05:57.460" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""If you modify the properties,""" start="00:06:00.900" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""the buffer is considered modified.""" start="00:06:03.057" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Org Mode makes heavy use of text properties,""" start="00:06:05.500" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""as we can see by running this little code snippet here,""" start="00:06:08.460" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""which is going to tell us the properties""" start="00:06:11.678" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""and the string attached""" start="00:06:14.060" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""to the "Some poetry" headline on the right.""" start="00:06:16.566" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""There's also some controversy regarding performance.""" start="00:06:20.740" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""It may be that text properties""" start="00:06:23.660" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""perform better than overlay properties,""" start="00:06:25.521" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""so do some research""" start="00:06:27.860" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""if you're going to make heavy use of them.""" start="00:06:28.893" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""I prefer overlays because they're just easier to use.""" start="00:06:31.060" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template new="1" text="""C++ compiler output.""" start="00:06:36.100" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""So my day job is C++ programmer,""" start="00:06:37.540" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""and although I've been an Emacser for many years,""" start="00:06:41.171" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""it can be a little bit of a chore dealing with errors.""" start="00:06:46.561" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""The error messages that come out of the compiler""" start="00:06:52.860" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""can be pretty hard to understand.""" start="00:06:55.681" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""This has often been a barrier,""" start="00:06:57.580" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""particularly for people who are new to C++.""" start="00:07:00.538" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""So let's see what that's like.""" start="00:07:04.640" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""I have an example""" start="00:07:09.040" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""which is generously supplied by Ben Deane of Intel.""" start="00:07:10.560" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""So let's see what it looks like""" start="00:07:14.780" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""when you compile a C++ program""" start="00:07:17.083" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""that has a difficult error in it.""" start="00:07:19.314" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Okay.""" start="00:07:24.400" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Okay.""" start="00:07:28.400" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""So you see we have a lot of fairly verbose messages.""" start="00:07:31.400" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""The most verbose one I think is probably here.""" start="00:07:35.680" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""This one here.""" start="00:07:39.400" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""These are pretty bad.""" start="00:07:41.000" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""I think there might be bigger ones.""" start="00:07:42.000" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Oh, yeah. Here we go.""" start="00:07:43.000" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Here's my favorite one.""" start="00:07:43.721" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""You can see... Let's look for specialization... Basically,""" start="00:07:44.961" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""this whole section of the buffer here,""" start="00:07:51.064" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""that is specifying the specific types""" start="00:07:55.179" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""that a function template was instantiated with.""" start="00:07:58.229" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""And it's a lot there.""" start="00:08:02.000" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""So if you're trying to figure out""" start="00:08:04.000" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""what's wrong with your program""" start="00:08:05.474" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""and you're looking at something like this,""" start="00:08:06.818" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""it can be really, really hard to understand.""" start="00:08:08.885" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Okay.""" start="00:08:11.000" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Back to our presentation.""" start="00:08:12.000" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template new="1" text="""So it's often this way in C++""" start="00:08:17.680" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""because we compose types from other types.""" start="00:08:20.064" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""They can be long to begin with,""" start="00:08:23.400" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""but then a couple of other factors come into play.""" start="00:08:26.217" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template new="1" text="""First of all, we can have default template arguments.""" start="00:08:30.240" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""These are arguments you didn't 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+[[!template text="""with the minor mode installed.""" start="00:18:08.539" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Now we're going to have a compilation filter""" start="00:18:10.380" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""that will run on every chunk of output""" start="00:18:12.102" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""produced by the compiler.""" start="00:18:13.594" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""It's going to add those overlays""" start="00:18:15.780" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""with the line breaks and the indentation.""" start="00:18:17.850" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""It's also going to add overlays""" start="00:18:20.420" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""that mark up the nested types""" start="00:18:22.207" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""with 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start="00:18:53.580" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""And here's our big ugly one from before""" start="00:19:05.620" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""with all the characters in it.""" start="00:19:08.638" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Let's try hiding some of this information.""" start="00:19:10.900" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""We'll just slowly decrease the level of detail""" start="00:19:14.500" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""and you can see how it works.""" start="00:19:17.432" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Over here, where there's these ellipses""" start="00:19:19.740" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""next to string constant, the "..." there,""" start="00:19:22.334" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""that's where we are starting to hide information""" start="00:19:25.460" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""and go to the next level.""" start="00:19:30.387" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Hiding more, hiding more, hiding more.""" start="00:19:32.900" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Now we can go back and start adding it back.""" start="00:19:36.460" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""You can see here now we just have about four layers,""" start="00:19:38.220" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""which is a lot easier to understand.""" start="00:19:42.737" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""And if we start understanding what it is""" start="00:19:45.540" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""and we need more detail, we can just increase detail again.""" start="00:19:47.734" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""And every time we increase or decrease detail,""" start="00:19:52.180" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""it reformats so it still stays kind of consolidated""" start="00:19:55.403" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""and nice looking.""" start="00:19:58.900" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Let's increase it a little bit more.""" start="00:19:59.900" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Okay, so you can see how that worked.""" start="00:20:02.060" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Let's go back to our presentation.""" start="00:20:04.540" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""All right.""" start="00:20:08.340" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template new="1" text="""In conclusion, we saw how we could solve""" start="00:20:10.220" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""a real problem for C++ programmers""" start="00:20:12.997" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""by combining several Emacs features: overlays,""" start="00:20:15.368" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""compilation mode extensions,""" start="00:20:18.535" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""and balanced expression navigation using syntax tables.""" start="00:20:20.490" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Emacs is often compared unfavorably""" start="00:20:25.700" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""to newer IDEs and editors with slicker user interfaces.""" start="00:20:27.979" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""What Emacs has that they don't is powerful abstractions,""" start="00:20:32.220" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""tons of libraries, and decades of work""" start="00:20:36.387" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""by some of the luminaries in the field of software.""" start="00:20:38.863" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""I think that this project would have been much harder to do""" start="00:20:42.100" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""in a prettier but less powerful environment.""" start="00:20:45.344" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""In short, there's plenty of hope for Emacs.""" start="00:20:48.020" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Thank you.""" start="00:20:50.860" video="mainVideo-overlay" id="subtitle"]] + + + +Captioner: sachac + Questions or comments? Please e-mail [emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org](mailto:emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org?subject=Comment%20for%20EmacsConf%202022%20overlay%3A%20Improving%20compiler%20diagnostics%20with%20overlays) diff --git a/2023/info/overlay-before.md b/2023/info/overlay-before.md index 9b672414..06376cf1 100644 --- a/2023/info/overlay-before.md +++ b/2023/info/overlay-before.md @@ -8,12 +8,40 @@ The following image shows where the talk is in the schedule for Sat 2023-12-02. Format: 21-min talk; Q&A: BigBlueButton conference room Etherpad: Discuss on IRC: [#emacsconf-dev](https://chat.emacsconf.org/?join=emacsconf,emacsconf-dev) -Status: Ready to stream +Status: Now playing on the conference livestream
Times in different timezones:
Saturday, Dec 2 2023, ~1:00 PM - 1:20 PM EST (US/Eastern)
which is the same as:
Saturday, Dec 2 2023, ~12:00 PM - 12:20 PM CST (US/Central)
Saturday, Dec 2 2023, ~11:00 AM - 11:20 AM MST (US/Mountain)
Saturday, Dec 2 2023, ~10:00 AM - 10:20 AM PST (US/Pacific)
Saturday, Dec 2 2023, ~6:00 PM - 6:20 PM UTC
Saturday, Dec 2 2023, ~7:00 PM - 7:20 PM CET (Europe/Paris)
Saturday, Dec 2 2023, ~8:00 PM - 8:20 PM EET (Europe/Athens)
Saturday, Dec 2 2023, ~11:30 PM - 11:50 PM IST (Asia/Kolkata)
Sunday, Dec 3 2023, ~2:00 AM - 2:20 AM +08 (Asia/Singapore)
Sunday, Dec 3 2023, ~3:00 AM - 3:20 AM JST (Asia/Tokyo)
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[[!template id="chapters" vidid="overlay-mainVideo" data=""" +00:00.000 Introduction +00:33.560 Overlays and what they can do +02:02.500 Simple overlay example - creating an overlay +02:35.700 Adding properties +03:10.940 Deleting an overlay +03:24.660 Setting fonts the right way +03:59.540 More properties +04:12.580 Visibility +04:49.780 Adding text +05:27.820 Custom properties +05:45.380 Notes on properties +06:36.100 Improving C++ compiler output +08:17.680 The problem with C++ error messages +08:30.240 Many standard class templates have defalut arguments +08:47.520 Some types are aliases for longer things, too +09:20.960 Reporting type information accurately means long lines +10:18.240 Emacs can help - Treat C++ type names as just another kind of balanced expression +11:49.320 Add overlays to improve readability +12:22.400 Create a minor mode that runs during compilation +12:59.500 Parsing types as balanced expressions +14:16.100 Indent and fill with overlays - Use ancient "pretty printing" algorithms" +14:52.260 Overlays can mimic line breaks and indentation +15:14.520 Hiding details - Marking depths with overlays +17:12.660 Hiding to a target depth +18:04.900 Demo +20:10.220 Conclusion +"""]]
Duration: 20:57 minutes
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