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

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Post by peatmoss »

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…

In terms of HTML output, there are even some nacent HTML themes that I've used to sex-up my output:

https://github.com/fniessen/org-html-themes

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

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Post by PeCaN »

gexla wrote: post #115

OrgMode is one of the killer features of Emacs and the among my top greatest finds in the world of softwares. Don't use an Orgmode copycat on another platform. Go straight for OrgMode on Emacs. If you are a Vim user, EVIL mode has the best Vim keybindings I have ever used. You don't have to leave your other dev environments for Emacs. Use Emacs only for OrgMode if you like. My only issue with OrgMode is that it's a b…

I switched from vim to emacs a week or so ago and with evil-mode I hardly even notice. It's actually really good, pretty much a full implementation of vim inside emacs—not like other editor's vim emulation which is usually just hjkl and a few motions (coughbrackets,atom,vs codecough).

The main reason I switched was to check out org-mode (I didn't even plan to fully switch for a while), and it's that good. org-mode is the killer app for emacs. gdb-mode is really good too actually, as is eshell. For web development maybe emacs isn't any better, but for C it's really really nice.

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

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Post by chm »

atemerev wrote: post #78
chm wrote: post #63

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Vim and Emacs are two different beasts. My personal setup is using Spacemacs, after having my own clumsy customization on both Vim and Emacs. So now I use Emacs with Vim keybindings. Spacemacs has been suggested many many times in similar threads. I also suggest you give it a try, as its keybindings are very user friendly and documentation is good. And per your specific example: Vim has a great system to move around…

I tried repeatedly for many years and still couldn't adapt. And I easily adapted to, say, blind typing.

Then try again with Spacemacs. It's basically just a distribution of Emacs that comes preconfigured. I didn't even want to learn the Emacs bindings after using Vim, but this is a non-problem in Spacemacs. Just add the plugins you need to your config file, and voilà. I'm sure you could like it.

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

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Post by zeveb »

grblovrflowerrr wrote: post #135
sillysaurus3 wrote: post #118

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Yeah! It looks like your URL 404's though. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/10/universal-design-pat... All of it is pretty interesting, but it's sort of unreasonable to say "Here, read this tome." You can skip to the Wyvern section for the important bit. Gamedevs will be particularly interested, because the question of "How do I enable people to write games in the most flexible way?" is one of the great unsolved…

I'm interested in this idea. What aspect of emacs design makes it unique? What are the "core ideas" you mention?

I think that emacs's core idea is a small core (pun intended) of functionality written in a high-speed language (C in emacs's case), entirely orchestrated and glued together in a high-productivity dynamic language (elisp).

Emacs really isn't a scriptable editor: it's an editor written in a 'scripting' language atop a relatively small set of primitives which happen to be useful for editing. But it's also an email client written in that same language, and a version-control interface, and a web browser, and a news client, and a Tetris game, and and and …

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

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Post by calebm »

I love plain text, and like the idea of having notes in one place, but I use tons of pictures when taking notes (like taking screenshots of online class whiteboards). Evernote is awesome for this kind of note taking. Is there an easy way to add images to Org Mode notes? Or would I have to manually move the image to the right directory, copy the path, and paste it into the Ord Mode note?

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

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Post by BellsOnSunday »

peatmoss wrote: post #170
Chattered wrote: post #97

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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.

Why not just use AUCTeX?

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

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Post by sooheon »

Symmetry wrote: post #145
sdnguyen90 wrote: post #124

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I switched to Spacemacs from Vim a few months ago and I'm probably never going back to Vim. I didn't notice any difference between Evil mode and actual Vim. Took me a week or two to learn the Emacs and Spacemacs specific things before I was comfortable using as my primary editor.

I'm afraid I'm just too wedded to the jump list to make the switch, though Evil mode did do a good job with text objects.

I think pretty recently evil-jumper was added to evil itself, and the default jumplist actions are done well enough, imo. Have you tried it since then? Or is it just the edge cases (and there are plenty...) which throw you off?
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