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Re: Emacs: Use function keys for custom keyboard shortcuts

shackra sislock — Sat, 25 May 2013 15:04:37 -0000

nice, thank you! :D

what about key combinatios like "C-c p" or so, are they written like "<c-c> p" or not?</c-c>

Re: Emacs Chat: Bastien Guerry

formyss — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:54:29 -0000

Thanks for doing this. Bastein is a great guy. humble and extremely talented.

Re: Literate programming and my Emacs configuration file

Jonathan Arkell — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:33:07 -0000

Using org-babel for startup is truly the path to enlightenment. Here is my crack at it:

https://github.com/jonnay/emag...

Re: How to present using Org-mode in Emacs

Olivier Berger — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:01:20 -0000

I have played with the =orgmode-slideshow= solution for non-beamer presentations, which wraps the HTML export with only minimal changes, as an alternative to S5 and I find it great, so far.

By commenting out some code, it allows to customize some keys behaviour in the JS so that up and down still scroll up/down the slide contents, which allows big bullet lists in slides ;-)

See the docs at http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tu...

I have used org-beamer a lot until now, but I think the HTML export + JS + CSS will be a useful option too.

Re: Thinking about what I want to do and where I want to go with this blog

Archimedes Trajano — Wed, 22 May 2013 22:53:59 -0000

Actually the left side of the things in the What I don't want group will just happen naturally and it's fine. Though I am using it for experimentation purposes as well to see people's behaviours for fun.

I think it's better to say "what I am not focusing on" rather than "what I don't want". As far as monetization goes, I don't think of it as a bad thing, I actually think of it as another way of seeing behavior patterns, I think I'd get maybe $1 per year on my blog which means the blog needs 100 years of operation before I'd get a paycheck from it. :D

I like that you're expanding on your media choices, I still limited myself to text for now because that is the one I am most comfortable with. Though drawings may come next albeit more mechanical like SVG and UML just because that's my personality.

Also as a habit of mine, I like linking my posts together a lot. I like seeing relationships between my ideas of the day. Eventually I will find a plug-in that shows (posts that link here). So my blog would end up more like a wiki in that there'd be a rich amount of links and probably find a way of visualizing it into a graph because I'm such a nerd when it comes to those things :D

Re: Thinking about what I want to do and where I want to go with this blog

sachac — Wed, 22 May 2013 19:15:30 -0000

I like that. =) I've got the unusual position of not having income pressure, so I'm glad I can make good stuff and give it away for free. Maybe the next step is more like building a place where I can float ideas for blog posts and experiments, and find out what other people are interested in. There's so much to share and so much to explore, so being able to consider other people's interests (and questions!) may help me prioritize better.

Re: How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners

Sylver Stone — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:11:14 -0000

Yeap, I had to get all above summarized through (and much more) when starting with emacs. I found this post so illustrative, I've enjoyed it. I'm trying with emacs-prelude now and trying to learn lisp. I heard about using slime as IDE for this but I'm still at the "setting-all" stage, so crossing-fingers and go ahead.. thanks for this post..

Re: zomg, Evernote and Emacs

vicco — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:52:16 -0000

is it the same problem for nixnote? I wonder if this would work as an indirect access to evernote.

Re: How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners

Guest — Mon, 20 May 2013 12:01:46 -0000

Nice tutorial. Once in a while someone posts about Emacs, and I get tempted again to play with the devil. When two three days passes, I find I can't do something, and I even don't bother looking it up. I silently go back to vim and wait for yet another tutorial.

Re: Slice of life: Home improvements

Pat Thomasson — Mon, 20 May 2013 06:05:42 -0000

Focus on what you can do and it tempers the helpless, overwhelmed feeling. That's a great piece of advice.

Re: How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners

naivnomore — Sun, 19 May 2013 10:50:34 -0000

Hand drawn one pager is done very nicely. Good work. Succinct intro for beginners. However, It will be nice to have another one pager organized by the most frequently used commands. BTW, what did you use to create this one pager? It is really done very well. Thanks.

Re: How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners

Pat Thomasson — Sun, 19 May 2013 09:58:37 -0000

This is great. As one of your less code savvy followers, this has prompted me to go a step or two back off the page from where you started and learn a bit about text editors in general. I am curious about VIM, Emacs and some other tools but I am curious about a lot of things. Thanks again for sharing.

Re: How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners

behemoth — Sun, 19 May 2013 09:48:47 -0000

very nice

Re: How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners

Andrew — Sun, 19 May 2013 02:41:10 -0000

Fantastic Stuff

Re: From cats to keystrokes

sachac — Sat, 18 May 2013 22:10:28 -0000

Oh, W- is the pseudonym I use for my husband. I'd started using J- to refer to his daughter in my blog because she was younger than 13 then, and it made sense to refer to him similarly.

Re: How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners

Nrkkalyan — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:31:56 -0000

Nice

Re: From cats to keystrokes

Gath Gealaich — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:49:23 -0000

What exactly means "W-"? It sounds like a manufacturer designation. Or do other parts of this planet have naming and typographic conventions I'm not familiar with?

Re: How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners

Dave Marquardt — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:49:17 -0000

Hey, remember how I couldn't see your drawing? It was a Feedly thing, and I can see the drawing just fine on your web site.

Re: Thinking about what I want to do and where I want to go with this blog

Raymond Zeitler — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:14:10 -0000

Your blog is refreshingly free of advertisements. So I receive it as a pure form of self-expression and an altruistic willingness to help others -- like a flower in a harsh land. And I agree with Trevor's comment, "Money changes how people interact with you."

But I also think you're entitled to monetary reward. Hmmm, not sure how to reconcile the two. Perhaps by allowing for donations on a totally separate site, such as philanthropy.org* with a subtle link to your membership page, on which you might present yourself as both a benefactor (which you most certainly are) and a recipient.

You could add a "store" tab to your site. Your product list could include your e-book(s), poster-size hardcopies of sketchnotes, plus consulting services.

Thank you for including me in your list of amazing conversations! It has been amazing!

* This is not an endorsement of the site. I'm not really familiar with it.

Re: How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners

sachac — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:08:26 -0000

Hilarity! =) Glad it helped. You can also find keybindings with C-h f <function-name>

Undo-tree is pretty darn cool. =)

Re: How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners

Raymond Zeitler — Sat, 18 May 2013 10:53:44 -0000

Excellent! This 13-year user didn't know about C-h w <command>. I would always invoke M-x <command> and then stare at the mini buffer for the brief message that says what keystroke (if any) it's bound to.

Undo was on my short list of must-have text editor features. So it was one of the first things I looked up, and I used it often. But I learned the C-x u keystroke, not C-/, even though the latter is shown on the reference card.

I appreciate the vim help. Sometimes it's all there is. Besides it's hilariously funny! :)

Thanks so much!

Re: How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners

FreakSQuirreL — Sat, 18 May 2013 09:48:15 -0000

Really nice! I got here after a friend shared a link to your blog :) I will keep spreading your work to help those who want to use emacs.

Btw, you blog is really interesting! keep the good work ;)

greetings from the land of the rising sun ;)

Re: How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners

vec — Sat, 18 May 2013 09:00:13 -0000

nice sheet though, maybe that'll help me to get into emacs

Re: How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners

vec — Sat, 18 May 2013 08:59:29 -0000

> “Emacs vs. Vi” holy war (one of the classic battles in computer science)

no, not really! computer science deals in way more complex problems.

Re: How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners

Adam Awan — Sat, 18 May 2013 08:57:17 -0000

Thanks Sacha, great sketch. I found it hard to move away from Vim until I found Evil (Extensible Vi Layer) for Emacs http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs... This replaces any need I had to use Vim.