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Re: Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text

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Post by disease »

malloryerik wrote: post #138
wtbob wrote: post #112

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> These are called "M-x" in emacs parlance. And if you use the GUI version of emacs, you can use alt-x instead of pressing escape then x. It's much easier, but doesn't seem to work in the terminal. That works in all my terminals — I suspect something's awry with your settings. One issue is that if you use gnome-terminal under Ubuntu, I think by default it steals alt for its own menus. There's a setting to disable tha…

I actually use empty shift for parens, so comfy I almost feel guilty about it...

Figured it out myself. Couldn't find a way to map single presses of the Shift key in emacs, but I was able to do this using AutoHotKey in Windows:

LShift UP::Send, ( RShift UP::Send, ) LShift & F13:: RShift & F13::

As a Clojure and JavaScript dev I think I am going to like this mapping quite a bit, so thanks for the tip!

Re: Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text

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Post by ejrowley »

JamilD wrote: post #141
fernandotakai wrote: post #134

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at least for me, it feels like i have to change my whole workflow to match spacemacs, instead of being the other way around (i, being able to easily config spacemacs to match my current vim workflow). it honestly felt really backwards to use spacemacs after ~10y of vim usage. i would prefer to learn plain emacs + evil mode instead.

I use emacs+evil; tried out spacemacs but found it over-customized. I want to know what everything in my .emacs does, and if I don't like something, how to change it. Spacemacs was way too overwhelming for me.

Another long time vim user, I switched to emacs+evil then to spacemacs back to vim back to emacs+evil. Spacemacs was good but I started to feel bogged down, as I do with big ide's and went back to a very minimal vim.

I have now started back with emacs + evil and a minimal setup. I find it gives me the best of all worlds.

Re: Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text

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Post by BooneJS »

Gratsby wrote: post #129

I am an emacs user, but my initial foray into org mode wasn't particularly successful. I was much happier in OneNote. Now that I work mostly in an OSX environment where OneNote is a stripped down shell of it's Windows counterpart, I've been searching for a replacement. I think it's time to give org-mode a try once again. I'm not big on this set of documentation though. It's great for a reference, but I would like to…

Have you considered VoodooPad for a personal Wiki? https://plausible.coop/voodoopad/

Re: Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text

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Post by eggy »

_lbaq wrote: post #102
sz4kerto wrote: post #75

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OneNote stores the notebooks in simple files -- sharing is done through Onedrive. It's very-very unlikely that suddenly and without warning Microsoft 1) encodes your notebooks in some unreadable format 2) stops the service.

Is it worth the hassle and uncertainty ? I guess that depends on what you store in the files, my UTF-8 encoded text files read by org-mode, is easily readable and information can be extracted without (almost) any effort. Since I store my diary, ideas, manuscripts, cv's, contacts, meeting notes and a myriad of other things, I cant simply trust anything else with the data. I've seen many cases with distraught persons r…

I generate PDFs of my important OneNote notebooks, and I backup the file. It is not a complicated file format to have to worry about not having access to it for the data in future. Plain text is great and simple, but no drawings, mindmaps, photos, vector art, etc... which I can use in OneNote. My note-taking, journaling is more rich with the multimedia content. I used to use a TiddlyWiki, but I love using my Sony Vaio Flip 15 and pen to doodle, handwrite, or make lists.

Re: Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text

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Post by npsimons »

_asummers wrote: post #143
Vekz wrote: post #40

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Save your org-mode files to a dropbox directory or commit to a git repo to sync across multpile computers

Not to hijack this thread, but if you go the git route make sure to try magit. Best git experience I've ever had.

Egg is pretty slick IME. Course for org-mode, 90% of my use of git as applied to my org files is as a glorified rsync.

Re: Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text

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Post by drivers99 »

wtbob wrote: post #112
sillysaurus3 wrote: post #104

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Any vim user, try this: 1. brew install emacs, apt-get install emacs, or pkg add emacs 2. vim ~/.emacs 3. paste the following, verbatim. Don't bother reading it: (require 'package) ;; You might already have this line (add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/")) (when ( 4. :wq 5. Open emacs 6. Press escape, then "x", then enter. Now type package-install and press enter. 7. Type evil-mode…

> These are called "M-x" in emacs parlance. And if you use the GUI version of emacs, you can use alt-x instead of pressing escape then x. It's much easier, but doesn't seem to work in the terminal. That works in all my terminals — I suspect something's awry with your settings. One issue is that if you use gnome-terminal under Ubuntu, I think by default it steals alt for its own menus. There's a setting to disable tha…

It could also be if he's on a Mac, you have to go to Terminal -> Preferences -> select your current profile -> Keyboard -> check "Use option as meta key"

I found that out because I was trying to start using org mode but I'm new to emacs. That was one of many issues I ran into trying to get it to work. (First was that the emacs that comes with OS X is ancient and doesn't have org-mode, so I had to use brew to get a good version).

Next is none of the tutorials actually match the shortcuts that org-mode actually uses on my system.

Re: Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text

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Post by ashitlerferad »

intrasight wrote: post #2

I have been interesting in learning Org Mode since first finding out about it a couple years ago. I probably would have had more success if I'd started before purchasing a smartphone. Like a billion others, my smartphone as become my personal digital assistant. Now I would love to (again) have a smartphone with a full keyboard - but the market seems to have rejected that form-factor.

You might enjoy the Neo900 or the Pyra:

https://neo900.org/ https://pyra-handheld.com/

Re: Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text

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Post by platz »

ejrowley wrote: post #162
JamilD wrote: post #141

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I use emacs+evil; tried out spacemacs but found it over-customized. I want to know what everything in my .emacs does, and if I don't like something, how to change it. Spacemacs was way too overwhelming for me.

Another long time vim user, I switched to emacs+evil then to spacemacs back to vim back to emacs+evil. Spacemacs was good but I started to feel bogged down, as I do with big ide's and went back to a very minimal vim. I have now started back with emacs + evil and a minimal setup. I find it gives me the best of all worlds.

agree.

everyone talks about spacemacs=vim. this is nice, but what turned me off of spacemacs was the layers config abstractions. It breaks the normal configuration of emacs. Just install evil mode and a few contrib packages.. that's spacemacs lite.

Re: Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text

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Post by jxy »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #33
colah3 wrote: post #24

I really like org-mode and used it heavily for about a year. But I found having my todo list on a single computer pretty limiting. Thankfully, there's a new generation of org-mode inspired cloud apps: * https://workflowy.com/ -- the most mature app * https://www.moo.do -- really nice Google Apps integration * https://checkvist.com/ -- extremely feature rich I'm really excited by these tools. I feel like org-mode has…

I'd say there's one primary "potential to improve" - a mobile app. The situation is better than it used to be, but frankly still not good enough IMO. Otherwise, an org-mode + Dropbox combo works perfectly for me; every computer I own or work on has Emacs installed anyway. And it's hard to note down so much content on mobile that you won't be able to retype it back on a proper computer under 5 minutes.

I've used org-mode for todo/gtd/planner for years before I had my first smartphone. Then I suddenly realized a user friendly mobile app is so much important. I started to add some of my todos to my phone's builtin reminder, and as you would expect, my todo system quickly fell apart. I'm using omnifocus now on both my laptop and phone, and I would pay more for an equally good interface on the mobile for org-mode.

I still use org-mode for writing everything else. Nothing competes with that.

Re: Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text

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Post by peatmoss »

Chattered wrote: post #97
MarcScott wrote: post #86

Most comments here seem to focus on the notes and GTD side of org-mode. For me, org-mode is my go to markup language. So much so that I now find writing in Markdown to be almost painful. A few of my favourite features are: - Tables are amazingly easy in org-mode, with spreadsheet features thrown in as well. - Code snippets can be written in their own major mode, giving me syntax highlighting, auto completion and the…

I recently had a paper published written in org mode and I have another in review. I don't plan to write straight LaTeX again. For me, babel is the killer feature. I can write code snippets in the buffer, highlighted and indented according to the corresponding emacs mode, with paredit for lisp, and beautifully exported via pygments. A single key combo lets me evaluate my code in persistent repls associated with my bu…

Fellow academic org-writers unite! Org is a great place to write papers. Unlike Markdown, which some people present as another alternative, Org supports cross-references. Also, being able to do complicated stuff by dropping back to LaTeX is a boon.
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