The Emacs Problem (2005)

Re:The Emacs Problem (2005) by tptacek on Thursday February 27, 2014 @01:06PM (#7313772)

Magit. Tramp. Org-Mode. Macros. Ido. Flycheck. Hilock.

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Re:The Emacs Problem (2005) by wglb on Thursday February 27, 2014 @04:05PM (#7315057)

And Paredit, emacs.desktop, rmail, slime, w3m mode, make integration, remember mode, instant keyboard macros, color themes, font choices.

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Re:The Emacs Problem (2005) by tptacek on Thursday February 27, 2014 @05:09PM (#7315541)

Remember mode is like a very small subset of what org-mode does, right?

I wasn't an org-mode believer until a few weeks ago, and then used it to bookmark and track notes for a large software project I had to audit, and it was amazing.

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Re:The Emacs Problem (2005) by wglb on Thursday February 27, 2014 @06:27PM (#7316056)

It is awesome.

Remember mode is just a very simple way to remember stuff, and it can be plugged into org mode.

The biggie that I forgot is calc. Just awesome.

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Re:The Emacs Problem (2005) by tptacek on Thursday February 27, 2014 @06:47PM (#7316194)

I've never used calc. I use rpn, an incredibly simple rpn calculator someone I know wrote in like 1998. Why would I use emacs calc? (Curious).

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Re:The Emacs Problem (2005) by wglb on Thursday February 27, 2014 @07:40PM (#7316493)

Well, I didn't know about rpn. Calc the stack based thing, but it might have more features.

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Re:The Emacs Problem (2005) by tptacek on Thursday February 27, 2014 @09:24PM (#7316880)

Oh, I wasn't arguing, I was just waiting to hear about calc's amazing powers.

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Re:The Emacs Problem (2005) by wglb on Thursday February 27, 2014 @11:15PM (#7317213)

Here are some odd highlights: matrix http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/calc/Matr...

Lists http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/calc/List...

Algebra: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/calc/Basi...

Algebra rewrites: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/calc/Rewr...

Programming calc: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/calc/Prog...

And (gasp) Data Types: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/calc/Type...

(mind you, i mostly use the HP-calculator level stuff. But the rest is certainly awesome)

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Re:The Emacs Problem (2005) by tptacek on Thursday February 27, 2014 @11:49PM (#7317297)

Hah! Of course an Emacs calculator would contain a rudimentary CAS. How couldn't it?

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