Morgan finally overcomes her fear of Emacs
and we talk about Morgan and Christine's respective experiences
learning it, and how you can pick it up too!Our talks tomorrow at FOSDEM's
Declarative and Minimalistic Computing
room:Lisp but Beautiful; Lisp for EveryoneSpritely Goblins Comes to GuileSwitching capslock and ctrl stuff: (it's a great idea even if you don't
use Emacs; many keyboards used to have ctrl key where capslock now is,
and much advanced program use benefits from keyboard shortcuts):Switching on GNU/LinuxSwitching on Windows 10 & 11Switching on OSXOn Guix: (keyboard-layout "us" #:options '("caps:ctrl_modifier" "shift:both_capslock")) in your system configuration both makes capslock a ctrl and allows you to press both shift keys at once to enable capslock behavior (should you want such a thing)And actually there's a whole EmacsWiki page about itLinks:Emacs!Git and MagitOrg-ModeSpacemacsMousemacsEmacs Themes… find one that's right for you!The Emacs lisp reference manualemacsconfOrg-mode and Org-Roam for Scholars and ResearchersSacha Chua, whose blog is full of awesome emacs and emacs news
posts, and who also releases lots of great videos about Emacs!Emacs Rocks!Episode 14: Digital Humanities WorkshopsEpisode 15: Scribble and the Open Document Formatmu4e, ERC, crdt.el (video)… many more emacs tools mentioned,
not all linked! Trying to be comprehensive would result in a
trip to the M-x doctor for sure…wireworld-el, Christine's (minimalist) implementation of the
wireworld cellular automata (cellular automata circuits!)And yes, it turns out you CAN annotate PDFs in emacs, using
the pdf-tools package!