Comment by hyperpallium2

1 month ago

What does clocks mean here? A new usage?

    “Emacsification” clocks that everything now works this way, not just baroque text editors.

It's not a new usage by any means. Like almost all slang it originated with Black drag and LGBT+ subcultures and only semi-recently (within the last 10-15 years maybe?) broke containment in the US.

As a verb, "to clock" means something like "to notice" or maybe in this case "to highlight, with specificity".