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

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Post by zetalemur »

Lammy wrote: post #135
iLemming wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars What makes Emacs genuinely great? Not that it was built a long time ago and withstood the test of time. Not the fact that it is absolutely free to use, distribute and extend. Not that it doesn't have tons of bugs (it does), or has superb support for every known programming language (it does not). To understa…

Thank you for introducing me to the term "umwelt". Over the past few years I've come to believe there's no such thing as objective reality at all—that it just feels that way when enough subjective viewers agree about what is true—and it's amazing to have a word for this for the first time.

Note that "Umwelt" is just the german word for "Environment" (or "Surrounding") - which actually fits in this context.

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

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Post by zucker42 »

iLemming wrote: post #115
gandalfgeek wrote: post #108

Whenever there's an Emacs thread on HN, I want to post the following quote from Neal Stephenson's "In the beginning was the command line": "It is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. It is colossal, and yet it only edits straight ASCII text files, which is to say, no fonts, no boldface, no underlining. In other words, the engineer-hours that, in the case of Microsoft Word, were devo…

> emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars What makes Emacs genuinely great? Not that it was built a long time ago and withstood the test of time. Not the fact that it is absolutely free to use, distribute and extend. Not that it doesn't have tons of bugs (it does), or has superb support for every known programming language (it does not). To understa…

This comment almost reads like a joke.

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

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Post by uaas »

rz2k wrote: post #109
thom wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Emacs is an enormous investment but every time I'm forced to use another editor or IDE I'm reminded how much it pays off. Fundamentally, all Emacs does is treat the whole world as text. Everything from that point forward is about giving you (or allowing you to build) tools to manipulate text in a way that is natural and powerful for you. This doesn't sound particularly earth-shaking, but it really is. Think of a lang…

Is there a way to run Emacs on MacOS with an updated interface? Running Emacs in the terminal limits the functionality, but the GUI versions I've tried are garish-looking to me.

Have you tried spacemacs yet?

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

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

brandonmenc wrote: post #82
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.

Longtime (two-decade-ish) previous emacs user. I lived in it. I used it for literally everything - web browsing, mail, mp3 playing, etc. > I am afraid I'm missing something. You are not. Nowadays I just use crappy little text editors for small notes and JetBrains IDEs for dev work.

I needed to hear that; articles like this give me FOMO for emacs and lisp and the like, but the learning curve intimidates me. It wouldn't be the first task tracking application I'd be trying.

Right now I use intellij for my main development work; I use some keyboard combinations where applicable (and changed the keymap to Sublime Text because I've used it and its derivatives (vs code mainly) for the better part of my career.

I don't have a dedicated flow for task tracking. Right now for work we use Phabricator, it's a bit awkward because it's a heap of independent modules built on top of each other, but it met our requirements (free, open source, self-hosted, not shit).

For a while I used a todo.txt addon in Sublime Text, which worked great; haven't been able to find a good alternative to it.

Used Wunderlist for a while, but I couldn't find my finished tasks without paying and it's been discontinued. Same with Todoist, minus the discontinued-ness.

Anyway, I don't think keyboard-based tools for me; I'm pretty good at typing if I do say so myself (~120wpm according to online tests / typeracer and co), but I haven't developed the mental capacity to remember all the keyboard shortcuts for emacs or vim.

I also didn't grow up with *nix systems, commandline only became a thing once I started my education and career ~15 years ago.

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

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Post by sverhagen »

_mlxl wrote: post #140
burntoutfire wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish someone did a thorough comparison of emacs with the newer extensible editors, such as Sublime. Is there something substantial that Sublime users are missing?

I'll give two examples to showcase features other editors are missing - ownership over the editor, and the extent to which you can build on top of existing primitives. 1. Can you change where the command palette shows up in Sublime? In emacs (M-x is our Command Palette) I can not show it, I can show it as a full width pane that takes up 50% of the screen, or I could recreate the Sublime Text look and feel (top of the…

I think that most companies would not find it adequate for the compliance regulations to be implemented "client-side". Mine would certainly answer your question: "how would you do the following in Sublime" with: "not at all", or: "please don't".

As for your former point of configurability; all power to you; I think that there is a spectrum where many folks choose to be more on the end of the spectrum where there is paved roads of using an editor that looks a certain way through the consensus of its users. Instead of picking between a super-configurable editor and one that isn't, I think many users choose between two less so configurable editors (I imagine IntelliJ and VS Code are good examples) for the one that just suits them better than the other.

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

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Post by jyriand »

jeppesen-io wrote: post #51

I wonder what the venn diagram looks like of those who enjoy the readability of this blog and use emacs

There must be an package where you can give url and emacs will display the article in org-mode format. Even better would be a package for reading hacker-news, surely there must be one.

EDIT: In fact there is a package called hackernews. You can open links inside emacs using text-based browser. No readability issues there.

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

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Post by johnmarinelli »

Lammy wrote: post #135
iLemming wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars What makes Emacs genuinely great? Not that it was built a long time ago and withstood the test of time. Not the fact that it is absolutely free to use, distribute and extend. Not that it doesn't have tons of bugs (it does), or has superb support for every known programming language (it does not). To understa…

Thank you for introducing me to the term "umwelt". Over the past few years I've come to believe there's no such thing as objective reality at all—that it just feels that way when enough subjective viewers agree about what is true—and it's amazing to have a word for this for the first time.

willkommen auf Deutsch

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

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Post by [deleted] »

rz2k wrote: post #109
thom wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Emacs is an enormous investment but every time I'm forced to use another editor or IDE I'm reminded how much it pays off. Fundamentally, all Emacs does is treat the whole world as text. Everything from that point forward is about giving you (or allowing you to build) tools to manipulate text in a way that is natural and powerful for you. This doesn't sound particularly earth-shaking, but it really is. Think of a lang…

Is there a way to run Emacs on MacOS with an updated interface? Running Emacs in the terminal limits the functionality, but the GUI versions I've tried are garish-looking to me.

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

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Post by f89839999999999 »

rz2k wrote: post #109
thom wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Emacs is an enormous investment but every time I'm forced to use another editor or IDE I'm reminded how much it pays off. Fundamentally, all Emacs does is treat the whole world as text. Everything from that point forward is about giving you (or allowing you to build) tools to manipulate text in a way that is natural and powerful for you. This doesn't sound particularly earth-shaking, but it really is. Think of a lang…

Is there a way to run Emacs on MacOS with an updated interface? Running Emacs in the terminal limits the functionality, but the GUI versions I've tried are garish-looking to me.

By garish-looking do you mean with the default white background and awful looking buttons?

I installed the Doom Emacs configuration and it looks really great and modern on macOS. I think you'd like it! Definitely worth a quick install to see what is possible - you can always go and make your own configuration based on that if you want

Doom Emacs: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

Doom Emacs themes: https://github.com/hlissner/emacs-doom-themes (can be installed standalone but not sure if they disable the toolbars etc)

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

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Post by burntoutfire »

sverhagen wrote: post #145
_mlxl wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll give two examples to showcase features other editors are missing - ownership over the editor, and the extent to which you can build on top of existing primitives. 1. Can you change where the command palette shows up in Sublime? In emacs (M-x is our Command Palette) I can not show it, I can show it as a full width pane that takes up 50% of the screen, or I could recreate the Sublime Text look and feel (top of the…

I think that most companies would not find it adequate for the compliance regulations to be implemented "client-side". Mine would certainly answer your question: "how would you do the following in Sublime" with: "not at all", or: "please don't". As for your former point of configurability; all power to you; I think that there is a spectrum where many folks choose to be more on the end of the spectrum where there is p…

> I think that most companies would not find it adequate for the compliance regulations to be implemented "client-side". Mine would certainly answer your question: "how would you do the following in Sublime" with: "not at all", or: "please don't".

Yep, exactly. The most natural solution to this problem is some kind of git hook on the git server. Nobody cares about the changes I make locally before I push them to a branch.

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