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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

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Post by svnpenn »

dmd wrote: post #48
svnpenn wrote: post #37

Does anyone know of a small Emacs distribution? I would like to get into Emacs, but its hard to justify 114 MB: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-26 Versus Vim 18 MB: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases

Justify in terms of what, exactly? At current disk prices, 114 megabytes costs less than a third of a US penny. Even at minimum wage, you'd make that in under a second.

surely someone of your pedigree can understand, not everything is about money. Why should I use something 6 times larger? Without a benefit thats just software bloat from where I sit. and GNU is known for this, from glibc on up.

Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode

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Post by nayaketo »

maxmalysh wrote: post #39
bananamerica wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

But be careful with vim, because one does not simply quit vim...

... or exit it.

Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode

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Post by naveen99 »

Rerarom wrote: post #2

I 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.

Checkout the emacs wiki: https://www.emacswiki.org/

See if you find any features or extensions that aren’t available on notepad++...

My .emacs configuration is based on vim style modal shortcuts that make me faster than a mutant: https://github.com/tinku99/dotfiles/blob/master/init-public....

I also use org-mode as a minor mode for autohotkey code editing, by changing the outline character from * to ; ... https://github.com/tinku99/ahk-org-mode

Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode

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Post by billwear »

spenczar5 wrote: post #50

> Network : Since I'm set up to send email, IRC, Mattermost, etc., directly from my org-mode tasks, it's easy to track where I am. I'd like to know more about this because it's something I struggle with while using org-mode. I want to have some sort of bidirectional link between org mode and Github issues for my projects; new issues should arrive in my "inbox" org file, and I'd like a simple way to update the status…

I'm afraid it's macros and elisp, but don't forget that you can write a good amount of useful elisp by recording macros and saving them in your .init file.

Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode

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Post by craig131 »

bananamerica wrote: post #49
philosopher1234 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nothing like a bit of vim vs emacs. Though I do get sick of vim winning every time ;)

Vim and Emacs are not in the same category. Direct comparisons are silly and useless, like comparing Pycharm and Notepad++.

Nothing’s in the same category when you look deep enough into them.

Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode

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Post by platz »

Unfortunately, org-mode is only a portable format if you stick to bare-bones org-mode; if you start using any of the "power-features" unique to org-mode you're stuck.

And if you restrict yourself to markdown-compatibilty, why not just write in markdown?

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