I’m interested in emacs / org-mode / org-roam. My goal is to have a local notes solution (replacing Obsidian, Apple Notes), and have the notes automatically published on the web as a crosslinked personal knowledge base. I have somewhat achieved this with Obsidian/markdown files + git + Hugo + Render. I write stuff. Check it into git. Push, and it deploys as a website. Feel pretty good about cobbling that together. Bu…
Here's an outline of a emacs/org-roam/org-publish based setup, which might be of help?
I have used Jetbrains IDEA and Clion extensively to understand the other side. An IDEs heavy introspection isn’t necessary, and perhaps actively harmful towards writing and reading code. It’s rigid policy over tools like git is certainly actively harmful. If it takes an IDE to write your code, then it will likely take an IDE to read your code. They are tools that allow you to take shortcuts were you shouldn’t, and ro…
I can write the same code significantly faster with an IDE because of all the autocompletion and code navigation. I don't use the version control features other than the occasional blame, preferring to stick to a command line for that.
The speed at which you write code is meaningless. Write speed is not the bottleneck for software development. What's far more important is that you take your time, pick names that a human can read and understand, write code that a human can read and understand, and write documentation. An IDE simply does not help with any of the things that lead to good software. If it did, the push to turn software engineering into cheap labor would have been successful, which it wasn't. Software engineering is still part art, part math, and 90% a mental activity and not a physical one.
I used Emacs for 20 years, contributed to popular open source emacs projects, and am the maintainer of a couple of emacs packages with small numbers of users. It's wonderful and extremely powerful having everything in lisp; don't bother with emacs if you're not interested in writing lisp. One silly thing that I could never get to grips with is the way the minibuffer always seems to get stuck asking me a question, but…
> One silly thing that I could never get to grips with is the way the minibuffer always seems to get stuck asking me a question, but the cursor isn't in the minibuffer. Or it's in some sort of recursive minibuffer mode. So many times I've just mashed C-g repeatedly in irritation!
This happens to me all the time too! Anyone have a fix?
I was an Emacs user back in my software writing days, but I thought I had left it behind when I became a lawyer. Over the past month or two however I’ve moved more and more of my workflow over to Emacs. I started with using Org Mode and PDF tools for note taking and reviewing PDFs and task management: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30492373 . More recently I switched my email over to mu4e: https://www.emacswiki…
Are you using viper or evil-mode often (or some other thing which gives emacs vi bindings, I think there are a couple)? Because navigating text with emacs gives me the emacs pinky, I'm wondering how folks deal with that. Transposed cpslck with ctrl?
Are you using viper or evil-mode often (or some other thing which gives emacs vi bindings, I think there are a couple)? Because navigating text with emacs gives me the emacs pinky, I'm wondering how folks deal with that. Transposed cpslck with ctrl?
my .02$: get an ergonomic keyboard (I use the MS Sculpt keyboard nowadays), and learn to type like a pianist (use both hands, don't be afraid to move them to minimise strain).
Sculpt is an amazing keyboard for programmers who need to press a lot of hotkeys. It has short spacebars and huge modifiers, very comfortable for your thumb. Not to mention it is split, negative tilted, tented and has a built-in wrist rest.
You may want to try using DavMail [1] for interfacing with Outlook. It is a reverse-proxy for email, so it talks to Outlook, and then mu4e can talk to DavMail directly. [1] http://davmail.sourceforge.net/
How the hell did they break email? You need a browser with JS to log into your email server?
my .02$: get an ergonomic keyboard (I use the MS Sculpt keyboard nowadays), and learn to type like a pianist (use both hands, don't be afraid to move them to minimise strain).
Sculpt is an amazing keyboard for programmers who need to press a lot of hotkeys. It has short spacebars and huge modifiers, very comfortable for your thumb. Not to mention it is split, negative tilted, tented and has a built-in wrist rest.
Agreed, the Sculpt coupled with an vertical mouse has been a game changer for me
Yeah the LSP ecosystem is so much nicer than the machinations hacked into text editors over the last 20 years. When you get down to it a modern editor is just a process manager for language servers, a global event bus/RPC layer across them all, and a UI layer. Instead of reinventing bespoke versions of those things, just solidify it using standard protocols like JSON RPC, HTML for UI, etc.
>. Instead of reinventing bespoke versions of those things, just solidify it using standard protocols like JSON RPC, HTML for UI, etc. That's ironic.
Yeah the LSP ecosystem is so much nicer than the machinations hacked into text editors over the last 20 years. When you get down to it a modern editor is just a process manager for language servers, a global event bus/RPC layer across them all, and a UI layer. Instead of reinventing bespoke versions of those things, just solidify it using standard protocols like JSON RPC, HTML for UI, etc.
Absolutely. Emacs is a great UX layer, only lacking a modern UI rendering layer. Would be nice to have emacs with a DOM-based rendering engine.
I'm not sure I love that idea, but I'm guessing that's the direction Nyxt is heading in.
I remember seeing vim as a complex solution for text editing, and I didn't touched it for that same reason. A couple of years later I spent sometime learning it and now it's my day-to-day tool for writing code. I feel the same with Emacs, I've been reading (very little) about it and I wonder if I dedicate the same time I did for learning vim I'd be in the Emacs bandwagon, but at the same time I don't feel that curiou…
I was avoiding Emacs for years because I heard that it's a huge timesink, so I kept using Vim and later NeoVim. Last month I started learning Clojure(great language btw) and after some consideration I decided to give Emacs a try.
It's my new favorite thing, it was a pleasure to learn. It took about 4 sessions to get productive with it, a couple of days. Really not that much of an effort. After a bit of tinkering, I feel like Emacs is what I was always looking in other IDEs. (Neo)Vim is a great text editor, but I was never able to customize it to a point where I was 100% satisfied with it. With Emacs it took a couple of weeks.
If you end up giving Emacs a try, I would advise using the native keys, at least until you're comfortable with the editor. When in Rome... Also, masteringemacs.com has a great beginner article, I highly recommend it.