2025/talks/modern.md


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# Some problems of modernizing Emacs
Eduardo Ochs (he/him) - Pronunciation: Oks, IRC: edrx, <http://anggtwu.net/>, more info at <http://anggtwu.net/contact.html>., <mailto:eduardoochs@gmail.com>

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This talk is going to be a reworked version of the incomplete video
in <http://anggtwu.net/2025-modern.html>. I will start by presenting
several notions of "simplicity" and "elegance", and show that when I
started learning Elisp it was "simple" and "elegant" in a way that
it no longer is; then I will show how to fix some tiny parts of the
problem by 1) using functions based on \`cl-prin1', 2) redefining
some printing methods with "(cl-defmethod cl-print-object &hellip;)", and 3) using Common Lisp to understand some recent parts of Elisp that are not well-documented.

About the speaker:

Eduardo is the author of an Emacs package called eev that makes
total sense to a handful of people and no sense at all to
practically everyone else - except for one part of eev, called
"eepitch". He intends to explain the reasons for that in his talk.


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