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All about switching to Emacs (video blog)
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In this video presentation I talk at length about the theme of switching to GNU Emacs. I first discuss what exactly makes Emacs unique. Then I talk the issue of the Emacs key bindings and their underlying method. I also offer some thoughts for when it would be a bad idea to switch to Emacs, concluding that this is a decision that needs to be thought through very carefully. The presentation was done inside of Emacs, using nothing but plain text, which I append in the Annex below. Copy the code from my dotemacs . Annex with the plain text of the presentation #+TITLE: Vlog: switching to Emacs #+AUTHOR: Protesilaos Stavrou (https://protesilaos.com/) * Switching to Emacs Why you might want to switch. Or why you may be better off without it. ** Emacs as a platform These are the absolute essentials of what make Emacs special. *** Emacs is not just a text editor Emacs is a lisp interpreter: + Its core is written in C. + And most of what you work with is done in elisp (emacs lisp). Emacs was never meant to just edit text. It is designed to be extended in order to meet the user's needs. /Extensibility/ is the quintessential Emacs quality. You can modify any piece of elisp /in real time/. Jus…
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Protesilaos Stavrou
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