I can just use VS Code.
Get things done with Emacs
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Re: Get things done with Emacs
#42Richard stallman himself got repetitive strain injury from emacs. So many people have. They tell you to remap the key to caps lock they tell you to use your palm instead of your finger they tell you to get a weird keyboard but at the end of the day it was just poorly designed. Vim is only slightly slower but so much easier on my hands. Yes, I could get emacs evil or spacemacs or whatever but bolting on modality to an…
One way to avoid strain on Emacs is to move your hand over an inch or so for certain keys. I tend to use M-x ${function-name} for new modes and commands that I learn, so this is not a big deal to me.
Speed is nice, but it is not the main goal. Getting things done is (no pun intended).
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#43I'm tired just reading the article. That process sounds exhausting, after working through it, I think I'd want a nap rather than to go do some actual worthwhile work.
Here is an easier approach:
https://easyorgmode.com/blog/a-workflow-for-using-org-mode-w...
Re: Get things done with Emacs
#44I can just use VS Code.
You literally can't.
Re: Get things done with Emacs
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like you have a flourishing Anti-library: https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antili... > Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there.
Sorry for being dense, but I couldn’t deduce from the source; does the “anti” just mean “unread”?
Yeah. It comes off as a playful/tentative term, not a precise one. If a "library" is a collection of read books, an "anti-library" is a collection of unread books.
Re: Get things done with Emacs
#46Richard stallman himself got repetitive strain injury from emacs. So many people have. They tell you to remap the key to caps lock they tell you to use your palm instead of your finger they tell you to get a weird keyboard but at the end of the day it was just poorly designed. Vim is only slightly slower but so much easier on my hands. Yes, I could get emacs evil or spacemacs or whatever but bolting on modality to an…
It's weird I used vim for 5 years and started getting really sore hands, so in early 2019 I switched from QWERTY to Dvorak layout, and at the same time decided to try out Emacs. Nowadays my hands are in far better shape.
I sometimes try using Evil, but every time I have to stop because my fingers become sore. I guess it's because when using modal editing I slam the keys down. That's because mistypes can be disastrous when compared to Emacs where mistypes just end up as characters in the active buffer.
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#47I'm tired just reading the article. That process sounds exhausting, after working through it, I think I'd want a nap rather than to go do some actual worthwhile work.
The idea is when you need to get work done, you procra^H^H^H^H^H^H work on your emacs startup files...
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#48I really like emacs, and I want to use it. I really loved the way I could mix my thoughts and tasks in org and have an agenda view that shows me a todo list. However, I spend so much time without a computer that it doesn’t make sense for me to use org mode. I’ve tried a mobile app for org mode but it didn’t work as well for me as a task tracker that has a mobile app. How are others in this situation working with org?
Which app did you try? I use Orgzly http://www.orgzly.com/ for getting the agenda on my phone and for small edits. And whenever I want the full experience I run a real emacs on my phone in Termux. For syncing I use Syncthing.
Use syncthing-fork and Tailscale and you can do realtime syncing on mobile networks of org mode files across multiple devices as well
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#49Thank you for the detailed write up. (I hope the author sees this) I'm always impressed with Emacs users that are capable of such discipline. I've use Emacs well over forty years, with only a few years of interruption, but I have never had a stable or well organized configuration. It's inspirational to see other's use of Emacs. I'm disorganized, and I'm a hoarder (right now, my bedroom has at least 100 books stacked…
Sounds like you have a flourishing Anti-library: https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antili... > Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there.
> Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.
izzit me or is that total garbage? The only information of value is that which you can use, if it's in a book you've never read it's effectively nonexistent. I get text books to stuff them into my cranium, not have them sit around as handy doorstops.
Might as well leave them in the bookshop until you need them. They're just as unread and you have cash in your pocket for other things you actually need.
Re: Get things done with Emacs
#50Richard stallman himself got repetitive strain injury from emacs. So many people have. They tell you to remap the key to caps lock they tell you to use your palm instead of your finger they tell you to get a weird keyboard but at the end of the day it was just poorly designed. Vim is only slightly slower but so much easier on my hands. Yes, I could get emacs evil or spacemacs or whatever but bolting on modality to an…
It's weird I used vim for 5 years and started getting really sore hands, so in early 2019 I switched from QWERTY to Dvorak layout, and at the same time decided to try out Emacs. Nowadays my hands are in far better shape. I sometimes try using Evil, but every time I have to stop because my fingers become sore. I guess it's because when using modal editing I slam the keys down. That's because mistypes can be disastrous…
Mistypes shouldn't be that disasterous, enable all undo features (including persistent undo) and enjoy.