{"id":9561,"date":"2021-03-19T14:48:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T18:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9561"},"modified":"2021-03-19T14:48:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T18:48:46","slug":"red-meat-friday-prettifying-emacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9561","title":{"rendered":"Red Meat Friday: Prettifying Emacs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was younger, we had a term for programs that produced some sort of impressive display but were otherwise useless: eyewash. Such programs were produced for the benefit of the suits and visiting firemen. There\u2019s a faction of Emacs users who have their own form of eyewash. They are obsessed with making Emacs pretty and are sure doing so will solve all the problems with finding new Emacs users. Another faction believes, as I do, that pretty is as pretty does.<\/p>\n<p>Vivek Haldar belongs to the latter group.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Prettifying <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/emacs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#emacs<\/a> is like blinging out a monastery.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vivek Haldar (@vivekhaldar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vivekhaldar\/status\/1368659852076060672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing evil or corrupt about liking bling, of course, it\u2019s just that some of us would prefer that Emacs developers\u2019 energy be focused on making Emacs more useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was younger, we had a term for programs that produced some sort of impressive display but were otherwise useless: eyewash. Such programs were produced for the benefit of the suits and visiting firemen. There\u2019s a faction of Emacs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9561\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-9561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9562,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9561\/revisions\/9562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}