Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
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Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
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Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
#2I don't use emacs.
I use text files to organise myself but I use notepad++ to edit them.
I have tried to learn emacs a couple of times but I am really unmotivated - don't see any case where it would help me. I am afraid I'm missing something.
Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
#3I use Notes mostly, because it's synced to my phone and I can paste images (usually screenshots) in it easily.
Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
#4I don't use emacs. I use text files to organise myself but I use notepad++ to edit them. I have tried to learn emacs a couple of times but I am really unmotivated - don't see any case where it would help me. I am afraid I'm missing something.
Emacs is great, but use whatever you want. Of course you’ll be missing on something but that’s true for a lot of things.
Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
#5I don't use emacs. I use text files to organise myself but I use notepad++ to edit them. I have tried to learn emacs a couple of times but I am really unmotivated - don't see any case where it would help me. I am afraid I'm missing something.
I think the appeal is hack-ability. You can easily write a little Lisp program that hooks into emacs which you can trigger any number of ways.
Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
#6I use Notes mostly, because it's synced to my phone and I can paste images (usually screenshots) in it easily.
Same ! So easy and works incredibly well across multiple devices.
Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
#7I don't use emacs. I use text files to organise myself but I use notepad++ to edit them. I have tried to learn emacs a couple of times but I am really unmotivated - don't see any case where it would help me. I am afraid I'm missing something.
I say this as an avid emacs user: Emacs has a real problem in that it's very powerful but the, let's say, spiritual leader of the project (Stallman) is so wildly divorced from the real world because of his personal choices that he really has no idea what makes a compelling UX vs what makes a complete mess of arcane incantations. On top of that, the documentation is only suitable as a reference for someone who already knows emacs, so it's hard to learn.
To wit: Again I really really like Emacs as a piece of software, and I've been using it for like 10 years now. Maybe 3 or 4 of those years I've been using it reasonably seriously and even I find my eyes glaze over because of how dense and unapproachable the documentation is.
On top of that, being a political project, Stallman actively resists certain improvements to Emacs that would for example make it work better on my Mac, because my Mac is nonfree and Stallman would rather have an objectively poorer piece of software than one that "encourages" using MacOS.
And of course the other senior people in the Emacs project don't want to go against Stallman, so emacs is doomed to being a mediocre niche text editor with unrealized potential to become a household name.
If someone wrote an open source clone of Emacs that adopted some sane defaults, modern UI conventions, and dropped all the political BS it could be so much better.
Alas I don't have the skill nor the time to attempt such a thing.
Edit: hey how about a substantive reply rather than drive-by downvotes?
Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
#8I don't use emacs. I use text files to organise myself but I use notepad++ to edit them. I have tried to learn emacs a couple of times but I am really unmotivated - don't see any case where it would help me. I am afraid I'm missing something.
Just sit down and follow the tutorial that you can click in the emacs homescreen.
It is not that easy, but the effort you invest in learning emacs will pay off eventually.
Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
#9I don't use emacs. I use text files to organise myself but I use notepad++ to edit them. I have tried to learn emacs a couple of times but I am really unmotivated - don't see any case where it would help me. I am afraid I'm missing something.
I say this as an avid emacs user: Emacs has a real problem in that it's very powerful but the, let's say, spiritual leader of the project (Stallman) is so wildly divorced from the real world because of his personal choices that he really has no idea what makes a compelling UX vs what makes a complete mess of arcane incantations. On top of that, the documentation is only suitable as a reference for someone who already…
> so emacs is doomed to being a mediocre niche text editor with unrealized potential to become a household name
Emacs is absolutely a household name, at least in the world of text editors…
Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
#10I don't use emacs. I use text files to organise myself but I use notepad++ to edit them. I have tried to learn emacs a couple of times but I am really unmotivated - don't see any case where it would help me. I am afraid I'm missing something.
I say this as an avid emacs user: Emacs has a real problem in that it's very powerful but the, let's say, spiritual leader of the project (Stallman) is so wildly divorced from the real world because of his personal choices that he really has no idea what makes a compelling UX vs what makes a complete mess of arcane incantations. On top of that, the documentation is only suitable as a reference for someone who already…
> If someone wrote an open source clone of Emacs that adopted some sane defaults, modern UI conventions, and dropped all the political BS it could be so much better.
Worthy of mention, of course, is Spacemacs[1], which made Emacs approachable to me, someone who hadn't used much beyond Notepad++ and Eclipse before then.