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Re:Org Tutorials by amelius on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @06:11AM (#44657496)
> You can hookup agenda (calendars), etc, etc, and those things don't really translate so well to external tools.

Sounds like a replication of Unix inside an editor if you ask me.

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Re:Org Tutorials by vslavkin on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @06:42AM (#44657673)
Well, yes. I'd say that's what emacs is. A framework for, mostly, text based applications in lisp. The advantage is its "unified interface".

Everything is configured in the same language, uses mostly the same keybinds, and can easily be integrated with other apps of the framework.

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Re:Org Tutorials by anthk on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @07:26AM (#44657953)
If every Unix tool outputed TSV, yes. In Emacs everything it's Elisp.
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Re:Org Tutorials by input_sh on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @09:02AM (#44658758)
Wait until you learn many of the default bash keyboard shortcuts (like Ctrl + A / E to move to the beginning/end of the line) actually come from emacs.
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Re:Org Tutorials by BeetleB on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @10:31AM (#44659646)
I know you meant it as a criticism, but Emacs years view it as a feature.
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