SVG-Line: Better Status Bars for Emacs – Charlie Holland's Blog

58 pointsposted 3 days ago
by rbanffy
(chiply.dev)

4 Comments

strickinato

2 hours ago

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

an hour 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

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.

spudlyo

43 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.