In some modes in Emacs, the hl-line (‘hl’ for ‘highlight’) is used. That’s not intended to highlight the current line when you edit text; it’s used for things like feed readers and email, where you operate on items that are represented on lines. This highlight is way too subtle for my taste.
This week, I seem to have a lucky streak in terms on Emacs customizations. I use Emacs to read and compose most of my email, using the excellent notmuchCLI tool and its accompanying Emacs package. I also really like Protesilaos Stavrou’s modus-themes in both light and dark mode.
I know that #IndieSupportWeeks were supposedly a thing that ended in early 2020, but I don’t see why we shouldn’t continue shouting-out to the devs of apps we use everyday. Late in 2020, @Splattack on the Zettelkasten Forum brought up Monodraw – think OmniGraffle, but with ASCII box art!
In 2015, I sang praises for the guard statement to unwrap optional values in tests. But since then, we were blessed with XCUnwrap, which makes things even better in my book. I received a comment on the 2015 piece a couple weeks ago, so I figured I might as well document that things have changed in the meantime!
I’ve updated the open source FloatingFilter package to finally have rounded corners. The old corners looked especially out of place on Big Sur, but fit Catalina and older macOS versions, too. I believe I never announced the development of this library in the past. It’s used in The Archive to show a floating selector for external editors, and will also be a prominent feature of stuff I’m working on. It’s a general purpose “select with fuzzy matching from a list of things” tool.