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Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode

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Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode

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The lines are too long. It's not very readable.

I broke the lines up some, but tech discussions aren't going to be TV dialog, it's not healthy that way! :)

The point is that there is no margins. On my screen the lines are 275 characters long! This is 2-4x more standard formats. You don't need to break the lines up, you need to wrap them sooner with styling.

Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

On mobile it's very difficult to read because the font is too small and line width is too long, so I have to choose between squinting or scrolling back and forth and back and forth and.. (or use Firefox's reader mode). I don't mind plain text, but this site is several orders of magnitude harder to read than http://motherfuckingwebsite.com

On mobile it's really easy for me to read. Don't is at a natural size and lines wrap appropriately. [edit] Oh I see it looks bad in Firefox on mobile. Fair enough.

I do most of my HN browsing in the app [Materialistic], so I usually first look at articles using the built-in webview, then open externally in Firefox if that doesn't render correctly (which is unfortunately common. Not sure why, but I'm inclined to blame either the app or webview; for example, Wikipedia is served as a static site but renders as a blank page). In this case, they both rendered the same way (but was able to read the page with FF's reader mode).

[Materialistic]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.github.hidroh.materialist...

Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode

#263

Whenever there's an Emacs thread I feel really bad like an impostor, because I'm using Emacs daily for work and hobby for the past 15 years now and still only use only 5 to 10 functions regularly. Heck, I can't even remember the keyboard combo for getting help about a mode. When I have to install a new package, I use Melpa and copy&paste init code for the .emacs file from the web. If it doesn't work or breaks, I usua…

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Re: Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode

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Whenever there's an Emacs thread on HN, I want to post the following quote from Neal Stephenson's "In the beginning was the command line": "It is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. It is colossal, and yet it only edits straight ASCII text files, which is to say, no fonts, no boldface, no underlining. In other words, the engineer-hours that, in the case of Microsoft Word, were devo…

Oh no. They say you shouldn't meet your heroes, but now I think it might be just as important to never learn which editor they use.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsoOG6ZeyUI&t=110s
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