I Made an Emacs Extension That Displays Magic: the Gathering Card Tooltips
This post is about the niche intersection of Emacs and Magic: the Gathering.
I considered not writing this because I figured, surely if you multiply the proportion of people who play Magic by the proportion of people who use Emacs, you get a very small number. But then I thought, those two variables are probably not independent. And the intersection of Magic players
x Emacs users
x people who read my blog
might actually be greater than zero. So if you’re out there, this post is for you.
Do you like how MTG websites like magic.gg and mtg.wiki let you mouse over a card name to see a picture of the card? Well, I wrote an Emacs extension that replicates that functionality.
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