Type accent marks in Wezterm on macOS

The tips from my previous post didn’t quite work while writing the blog post using helix editor.

But as much as I can guess, it is a feature of the terminal and not the editor itself. So no point searching “Accent marks in Helix” ๐Ÿ˜„

Turns out initially1 wezterm didn’t support accent mark without special configuration. ('use_ime = true'), but since then it is enabled by default.

Yet, it didn’t work for me.

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How to type accent marks in macOS

In my previous post I needed to type letter รฉ but didn’t know how. (So I just copied it from the browser page that search result returned, explaining how to type accent marks on macOS ๐Ÿง )

But later, I searched and got it working.

We use what is called as Dead Key method. In Keyboard viewer, pressing the ALT (or Option) key, shows the dead keys.

So to type รฉ, I press ALT+e, this produces the accent, then (after releasing ALT) I press e. This adds รฉ

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Affirmations

  1. Every day, in every way, I am getting better, better and better.
  2. Negative thoughts, negative suggestions, have no influence over me at any level of mind.

I came across these in a famous book The Silva Mind Control Method1 The book is quite old. I used to see this (along with “The word power made easy”) at every bookseller while I was growing up. (English not being my native tongue, I ignored these back then)

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โ†’ Memos: A lightweight, self-hosted memo hub โˆž

I’m not sure what the main feature of this app.

Memos can be anything

Somewhere it says “Twitter like”, and it does have different visibility settings. Default being “Only visible to you”, but it can be changed.

It also has user management, so it may be useful for say family with 3-5 users, may be smaller start up ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚

I think the best part is ability to self-host. Maybe on Rpi, or in house server (If considering for family)

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Do Something

These days I’m reading a book “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck”

In it, Author suggests that if you are stagnated, just “Do something” and it will get you out.

I had not posted here in a long time. High priority things at work, late nights, that sort of thing.

While high stress situation ended, the lethargy continued.

Till I posted about Org-roam earlier today.

and now I’m posting my second post of the day ๐Ÿ˜„

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Org Roam

Since I started using minemacs few days ago, I discovered some new things like org-roam

As you might know, it is implementation of concepts from Roam research in org-mode (That may not be accurate description, but close enough)

I had tried org-mode long time ago, when I moved from vi/m to Emacs.

But later, as I wanted to share (publish) my notes, I settled on markdown format. (Yes, I’m aware that org-mode allows publishing notes, but for now I prefer native markdown files) Yet, org seems useful for personal notes since it is integrated within Emacs.

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โ†’ Minemacs โˆž

I came across this new starter configuration, described as “Minimal Emacs config for daily use” via Sacha Chua’s Weekly Emacs Newsletter 1 If you are Emacs user, you should subscribe. You don’t have to share your email unless you want to. She shares the links on Mastodon2 (and other social apps)

Back to Minemacs ๐Ÿ˜„

It supports emacs versions 28.2 and above (But I got it working with 28.13)

It is kinda refreshing. Doom Emacs is quite solid, and I’ve tweaked it to my liking over the years, but wanted to try something new.

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I used D2 for work today.

So far it was just a curiosity.

But there was an opportunity to use D2 when I had to document an important data flow at work.

With D2 Playground, it is much easier for my colleagues to use same simple format to update the diagram in future when needed.

Now this site has RSS enabled. For both posts and microposts

Next step : Auto post to Mastodon ๐Ÿ˜„

โ†’ Bullet train: Rails based framework โˆž

I came across this from (now defunct) rails app site. They seem to provide a lot of stuff in their open source version.

Seems like a good framework to get started on the side project or MVP

Other paid features are worth paying when your app starts making money.

I need to spend more time on digging deeper, and actually trying it out.