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I've actually used Spacemacs, but the problem with all these "recreate your Vim setup in another editor" things is that you end up having to redo your entire config. I've had years of custom key-rebindings and tweaks to my `.vimrc` that I don't really feel like redoing for something else.
I had a lot of modifications to my vimrc but spacemacs won me over. It's mostly setup well out of the box. If you feel like taking the plunge there is an Irc like thing for open source projects (don't recall the name of it now.) that is fairly active.
Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook
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Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook
#82Every time I see something about org-mode posted, I get mad FOMO and decide to re-dedicate my life to learning emacs and everything it has to offer. Then a little while later I inevitably drift back to vim. It's getting to the point where I need to just ignore cool stuff like this post in order to get on with my life.
Five years ago I have started to use Emacs after I saw some cool org-mode demos in hopes of utilizing some of its power in my organization and task management. I've been using Emacs daily for every programming task since then, but diving into org-mode is still on my to do list...
You could use org-mode to manage that todo-list. ;-)
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Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook
#83Wow, I didn't know org mode did sequence diagrams. That is going to be really useful to document our code. Will be great to be able to check in the source for sequence diagrams since the online services I've found for making them are hard to work with as a team.
Think of Org-mode as more of a multi-language ipython notebook, where anything (plantuml, ditaa, python, etc) can be used, along with a data interchange format (org-mode vars + tables).
It can literally "do" any tool you use that has a cli interface.
Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try http://spacemacs.org with Evil mode - vi keybindings, all the power of emacs, and emacs pre-configured to work well out of the box.
spacemacs is all of the power of vim and emacs with all of the complexity of vim and emacs. Having said that, it's what I'm using for writing code now.
I was using spacemacs, but I didn't know emacs and lisp well enough to solve problems when I had them, and getting help was hard.
Now I'm back to using plain old emacs, and I'm hoping I can learn from spacemacs to make emacs better by contributing back to it.
Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook
#85It's worth noting a great Android client for org-mode has been recently open sourced: http://www.orgzly.com/ https://github.com/orgzly https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/com.orgzly It was a little annoyance we did not have anything as good as this before.
Does it support syncing over git yet? It didn't last I checked.
There is another project that does -
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.coste.sync...
syncorg on github
Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook
#86It's worth noting a great Android client for org-mode has been recently open sourced: http://www.orgzly.com/ https://github.com/orgzly https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/com.orgzly It was a little annoyance we did not have anything as good as this before.
I was wondering just a few days ago whether building a nice Mac desktop app or maybe a web app, akin to Ulysses, but for Org file writing/editing, exporting etc. would be a viable idea and whether it could eat some of Markdown's marketshare by not being tied to Emacs, which is why I feel most people don't pick it up.
Would that be something the HN crowd would be interested in?
Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
The beauty of orgmode is that you don't need to learn everything to start using it, actually, you can just start with your typical workflow and look for stuff as you need.
I stopped using org-mode for a time after having invested a lot of time in learning all the cool stuff you can do because I felt like it was overkill and I was trying to do too much with it and organizing everything was becoming a chore. If you look at all it can do, it has so many capabilities (outlining, gtd, wiki, blogging, ebook publishing, presentations, time tracking, etc). Recently, I came back to it just to u…
Oh you want to quiz yourself occasionally? There's a minor mode for that: org-drill http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-drill.html
Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook
#88It's worth noting a great Android client for org-mode has been recently open sourced: http://www.orgzly.com/ https://github.com/orgzly https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/com.orgzly It was a little annoyance we did not have anything as good as this before.
I was wondering just a few days ago whether building a nice Mac desktop app or maybe a web app, akin to Ulysses, but for Org file writing/editing, exporting etc. would be a viable idea and whether it could eat some of Markdown's marketshare by not being tied to Emacs, which is why I feel most people don't pick it up. Would that be something the HN crowd would be interested in?
This will be a tough sell. Org-mode is a fairly fast moving target, due to how easy it is to extend anything in emacs. For lots, you will actually be battling against all of the other extensions in emacs. (For me, as an example, you will have to replace flyspell, beacon, tramp, ace-jump, ido, and ggtags.)
All of this is doable, of course. But it will be a tough sell.
That said, I'd say go for it. Worst case, nobody uses it and you just learn some of the difficulties of implementing. Hard to see that as a failure.
Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
spacemacs is all of the power of vim and emacs with all of the complexity of vim and emacs. Having said that, it's what I'm using for writing code now.
I was using spacemacs, but I didn't know emacs and lisp well enough to solve problems when I had them, and getting help was hard. Now I'm back to using plain old emacs, and I'm hoping I can learn from spacemacs to make emacs better by contributing back to it.
You can get help in the spacemacs gitter chat... there is usually someone around that can help you out for most things.
Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook
#90Looks great but I personally prefer to take notes with jupyter notebook. For TODO lists I prefer Asana, since it will send you e-mails/push notifications, and has a website + mobile app.
You can do both: http://millejoh.github.io/emacs-ipython-notebook/
There is also https://github.com/gregsexton/ob-ipython which integrates a Jupyter kernel into org-mode's #+BEGIN_SRC/#+END_SRC blocks. It can display the results of the execution of such blocks much like Jupyter Notebook.