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authorAndrew <andrew@andrewyu.org>2022-09-25 18:33:17 +0800
committerAutomatic Merge <andrew+automerge@andrewyu.org>2023-07-15 00:29:24 +0800
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 		<h1>Andrew Yu</h1>
 		<hr />
 		<p id="now">
-		Student Government election on September 29.
+		CHINESE SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT AHEAD.  STUDENT GOVERNMENT ELECTION ALSO AHEAD.
 		</p>
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 		<p id="about-me">I am Andrew Yu, a 14-year-old student in Shanghai, China, currently studying at YK Pao School.  I am interested in fundamental computer science, political philosophy, and (more clinically-oriented) biology.
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 			<li><a href="https://www.andrewyu.org/note/ask.html">Don't ask to ask, just ask</a></li>
 			<li><a href="https://www.andrewyu.org/note/social-media.html">Modern Social Media</a></li>
 			<li><a href="https://www.andrewyu.org/note/their.html">The ``Their'' Pronoun</a></li>
+			<li><a href="https://www.andrewyu.org/note/emacs.html">My Problem with Emacs</a></li>
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+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
+	<head>
+		<title>A Few Problems with Emacs</title>
+		<link rel="stylesheet" href="/plain.css" />
+		<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
+	</head>
+	<body>
+		<h1>A Few Problems with Emacs</h1>
+		<p>
+		<a href="https://emacs.org/">Emacs</a> is supposedly a text editor but is more of a integrated computing environment.  At its core is an Emacs Lisp interpreter and a text and buffer-oriented set of conventions that Emacs Lisp code follows.  The ``default''/``standard'' build of Emacs contains a World Wide Web browser, newsreader, electronic mail client, Internet Relay Chat client, a few games, and overall a ton of stuff that I do not use, need or want in my environment.  Therefore I use a minimal-ish custom build (i.e. simply leaving stuff out during <code>./configure</code>, which makes me feel a bit better.
+		</p>
+		<p id="space-based-alignment">
+	        One problem that I've recently noticed with Emacs is the tendency to use a set amount of spaces, expecting a monospace font, to align items across a buffer.  For example, when <code>:tags</code> are used with <code>org-agenda</code>, the agenda page aligns the tags to the right of the page with spaces precalculated from the window size.  But when we have double-width unicode characters, for example Chinese characters in the mix, or if we are using a variable-width Latin font, the alignment is completely screwed up.  Resizing the window also doesn't update the wrapping and alignment of items inside.  Emacs's text buffer-centric design makes it really hard to do otherwise.
+		</p>
+		<p id="core-written-in-c">
+		...
+		</p>
+		<div id="footer">
+			<hr />
+			<p><a href="/">Andrew Yu's Website</a></p>
+		</div>
+	</body>
+</html>