Watchlist × Emacs org-mode

Sat, 19 Apr 2025 12:29:00 -0700

Watch progress websites exist for anime and film. They work great. Socialization is great.

But they don’t record the exact time at which I finished each episode. I find such statistics amusing to dig through in some kind of year-end review. I also found it tremendously helpful to know which episodes were most recently watched, and in what order. Helps with recollecting the context of each show, especially when chasing more than a couple of shows at the same time. Depending on your judgment, using Letterboxd and MyAnimeList may also constitute giving private information to 3rd parties.

Vim really does not like kitty

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:30:01 -0800

TL;DR: kitty uses a custom terminfo xterm-kitty. Vim doesn’t like it. If you’re in a pinch, commit a crime, and hopefully it works fine. If you’re not, switch to another terminal for vim, or switch to neovim, or attempt to teach vim to speak kitty.

If you use Vim in kitty, local machine or going through SSH, and (at least) one of these is happening:

Paste Ctrl+Shift+V from system clipboard is egregiously slow. Like two lines per second slow¹.
Paste is glitchy. All the whitespace get eaten, nowhere to be seen. Lines get jumbled together, parts of the clipboard overwrite another, etc².
kitty tells you your clipboard contains terminal escape sequences. Except it absolutely does not. Pasting elsewhere, still in kitty, like into bash or nvim works completely fine².

then congratulations, you have just discovered that Vim isn’t very compatible with kitty as a terminal emulator. Instead of trying to poorly summarize why, you can instead read the problem being extensively discussed con fuoco in the Vim issue tracker.

tool-fighting on rtk0c's hut

Watchlist × Emacs org-mode

Vim really does not like kitty