I never used emacs beyond simple text editing. I’ve seen people do quite a lot of cool stuff with emacs though so I do want to start using it. Are there any good tutorials to look at? I’m mostly interested in the software dev pipeline.
EmacsConf 2020 Talks
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#22Q. Would you mind sharing your Emacs configuration files? Richard Stallman: Configuration files are personal and will not be shared. This cracked me up! xD
It can be (consider that some Emacs power-users used to do most things in Emacs, including email, Usenet, etc.), but this reminded me of something... Many years ago, some new founder I knew asked to see my elaborate .emacs file. I was reluctant, because it had some slightly sensitive info in it , as well as unreleased bits I might turn into packages. But he reassured me he just wanted to see how I'd done some things,…
> (consider that some Emacs power-users used to do most things in Emacs, including email, Usenet, etc.)
We still do. Consider that I have coordinates for weather in my .emacs, and yes, I should probably externalize that, but FFS, sharing my own incredibly personalized and personal configuration files was not first on my mind when I did that.
You want snippets, that will be useful to someone other than me? Fine. But there's no contradiction in arguing for openness in infrastructure and privacy in personal affairs.
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#23Over the years I have exchanged messages and worked with many of the speakers at this conference, but I have never had the opportunity to meet any of them in real life. It is so nice to finally see their faces and hear their voices. Thanks, Covid, I suppose.
You might like the videos from last year's conference too, then! =) https://emacsconf.org/2019/talks/
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#24Great to see a couple of talks on org. I know a couple people (including myself) who don't use Emacs as a main editor but use org to manage tasks, ideas, projects, etc.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
More pugnaciously... > Q17: You've been a very important part of the Free Software movement, some argue the most important part. I very much appreciate that! Thank you. I think it's necessary to encourage more diversity within Emacs, however, that's difficult to do with the instances of sexual harassment that have come out. Are you or do you plan to work on addressing those situations and preventing further situation…
Mofo got some balls on him. I'm surprised he was allowed to speak. The current practice for CoC enforcement at conferences is leaning toward preemptive: you can be banned for being considered likely to break the CoC.
That is, I think, a great shame.
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#26Big fan of Sacha Chua: much to learn by way of emacs, productivity and org life https://sachachua.com/blog/emacs/
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#27Thanks for sharing! For anyone that's gone through these, which are most worth watching? I haven't made emacs a regular part of my work yet, but I'm always curious to see what's going on in the community for it.
I haven't watched any myself yet, but there's a thread on r/emacs on just that question: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/k77k6a/what_are_your...
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#28I would like to use emacs and org mode to organise my life. But I think without it being useful on mobile phone, for me is a no go. I will keep using Google calendar for now.
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#29Honestly that "Emacs News Highlights" video is great for non-contributors or just users.
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#30Q. Would you mind sharing your Emacs configuration files? Richard Stallman: Configuration files are personal and will not be shared. This cracked me up! xD
Folks sharing conf files are the reason I was able to switch to linux on desktop (i3wm).