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▲SVG-Line: Better Status Bars for Emacs – Charlie Holland's Blog(chiply.dev)

56 points by rbanffy 2 days ago | 3 comments

chiply's series of posts on the site about VOMPECCCC is a really interesting look into:

  - A fantastic UI pattern and it's wide applicability
  - Building in a modular way
  - How emacs provides a fantastic substrate for packages to fit together

(VOMPECCC => Vertico, Orderless, Marginalia, Prescient, Embark, Consult, Corfu, Cape)

▲spudlyo 30 minutes ago

I'm a big fan of his work. The VOMPECCC fruit picker[0] article, was what finally got me to understand (and start using) the power of the stack in my own programs. The whole "propertized string" as "unit of currency" concept I found extremely useful, and now I use a custom consult document picker (with rich annotations) to perform actions on different kinds of XML documents that live in my BaseX database, it's super cool.

[0]: https://www.chiply.dev/post-vompeccc-fruits

▲spudlyo 27 minutes ago

I'm starting to use this technique for my own application specific status bars in Emacs and it works really well and looks extremely snazzy. I should probably implement a TUI emacs fallback, but at the moment I'm super stoked about this approach.

▲noelwelsh 2 hours ago

I love this. (I probably won't use it as these days I'm a Doom Emacs user and don't want to monkey around with my setup too much, but the concept is great.)

The guy's whole website is also worth clicking around. A huge amount of effort.