Useful Tools Within Emacs For Writers DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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I can't not use Emacs for writing at this point. Of course, org-mode is one reason, but another is that I think a modal text editor like Vim isn't very practical if you write in Japanese or Chinese or any language that requires something like ibus or fctix, because every time you change to normal mode, you have to go back to English, and that's annoying. Of course, there are ways around this. You could bind everything to keyboard shortcuts and then have a way to toggle those modifiers on and off without holding them (I can do this on my keyboard firmware itself, but you can do it elsewhere), and that would do basically the same thing. Still, the way that Vim does it doesn't work for me, so I use Emacs, and will continue to do so until I eventually write my own editor from scratch.
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I can't not use Emacs for writing at this point. Of course, org-mode is one reason, but another is that I think a modal text editor like Vim isn't very practical if you write in Japanese or Chinese or any language that requires something like ibus or fctix, because every time you change to normal mode, you have to go back to English, and that's annoying. Of course, there are ways around this. You could bind everything to keyboard shortcuts and then have a way to toggle those modifiers on and off without holding them (I can do this on my keyboard firmware itself, but you can do it elsewhere), and that would do basically the same thing. Still, the way that Vim does it doesn't work for me, so I use Emacs, and will continue to do so until I eventually write my own editor from scratch.
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AJ
I used Emacs for a while, and it's a very useful and configurable writing tool (especially ORG mode). However, what I found was it is a steep learning curve, and unless you're prepared to dedicate all of your writing to emacs, your going to struggle to remember all of the keyboard shortcuts. There are extensions you can add to emacs to update the shortcuts to -modern standards- but this comes with it's own problems as well.
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I used Emacs for a while, and it's a very useful and configurable writing tool (especially ORG mode). However, what I found was it is a steep learning curve, and unless you're prepared to dedicate all of your writing to emacs, your going to struggle to remember all of the keyboard shortcuts. There are extensions you can add to emacs to update the shortcuts to -modern standards- but this comes with it's own problems as well.
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Rui
If you have never used emacs keybindings or even vim with the evil layer. Try out ergoemacs.
THE best way (IMHO) to use emacs and have access to these awesome writing tools. It brings emacs into the 21 century.
Alt+i,j,k or l to move the cursor, Ctrl+o opens, Ctrl+s saves. It has smart cut and smart copy so as to not conflict with the normal emacs keybindings.
It is very well made, intuitive and powerful.
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If you have never used emacs keybindings or even vim with the evil layer. Try out ergoemacs.
THE best way (IMHO) to use emacs and have access to these awesome writing tools. It brings emacs into the 21 century.
Alt+i,j,k or l to move the cursor, Ctrl+o opens, Ctrl+s saves. It has smart cut and smart copy so as to not conflict with the normal emacs keybindings.
It is very well made, intuitive and powerful.
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Pascal
-DistroTube I think flyspell is asynchronous, it shouldn't slow down emacs (the error markers just might take a while to appear). I have it disabled by default, because of the visual clutter. A lot of words will be flagged because they were written abbreviated or because its jargon and there are other more important tools that give you error markers for correctness of the code.
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-DistroTube I think flyspell is asynchronous, it shouldn't slow down emacs (the error markers just might take a while to appear). I have it disabled by default, because of the visual clutter. A lot of words will be flagged because they were written abbreviated or because its jargon and there are other more important tools that give you error markers for correctness of the code.
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Peter
I can't comment on Emacs, I've never used it. But I've used UNIX (SCO and HP-UX) since around 1990 and then Linux nearly right from its start. I program, I write documents, I administer and build systems. I use vim and various plugins, but never needed to even think about Emacs. I don't see that changing in the future but if others rate it, good luck to them.
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I can't comment on Emacs, I've never used it. But I've used UNIX (SCO and HP-UX) since around 1990 and then Linux nearly right from its start. I program, I write documents, I administer and build systems. I use vim and various plugins, but never needed to even think about Emacs. I don't see that changing in the future but if others rate it, good luck to them.
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Sinner
I used to be on windows since 95 barely dipped into linux throughout the years. thx to you and others i am now running a btrfs on luks arch, and now im taking the plunge to develop my workflow from the ground up for my entire WM and dev environment with xmonad and doom/neovim! very excited to dive in and appreciate the great content!
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I used to be on windows since 95 barely dipped into linux throughout the years. thx to you and others i am now running a btrfs on luks arch, and now im taking the plunge to develop my workflow from the ground up for my entire WM and dev environment with xmonad and doom/neovim! very excited to dive in and appreciate the great content!
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chrislawrence
I'd love to use org-mode more but it is difficult within a tex environment (yes I know I can export, but this frequently never works properly without serious farting about).
What I REALLY would love is a native latex folding mode which doesn't involve auctex (I want to write -- not frick around with configs for hours).
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I'd love to use org-mode more but it is difficult within a tex environment (yes I know I can export, but this frequently never works properly without serious farting about).
What I REALLY would love is a native latex folding mode which doesn't involve auctex (I want to write -- not frick around with configs for hours).
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Pedro
I edit books with LaTeX, and my main tool has been GNU Emacs with AUCTeX, and I've never looked back. I only use Texmaker to correct LaTeX code here and there, but to actually create documents, I only use GNU Emacs. I have never regretted it. I haven't used Org Mode yet, and look forward to using it for other tasks.
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I edit books with LaTeX, and my main tool has been GNU Emacs with AUCTeX, and I've never looked back. I only use Texmaker to correct LaTeX code here and there, but to actually create documents, I only use GNU Emacs. I have never regretted it. I haven't used Org Mode yet, and look forward to using it for other tasks.
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Gonzalo
Strongly agree: Emacs is also perfect for editing plain text books and articles. By combining regular expressions and keyboard macros, it is possible to achieve astonishing levels of productivity, and to do in a few minutes what would take hours (and even days) for the non-initiated
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Strongly agree: Emacs is also perfect for editing plain text books and articles. By combining regular expressions and keyboard macros, it is possible to achieve astonishing levels of productivity, and to do in a few minutes what would take hours (and even days) for the non-initiated
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migue7490
I'm not even close to a professional writer but the main reason cause I switch to vim was to use latex, atom and texstudio were kinda big and slow (atom mainly) . Vim with vimtex and some snippets works pretty good, I didn't try latex with coc yet, I think is possible.
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I'm not even close to a professional writer but the main reason cause I switch to vim was to use latex, atom and texstudio were kinda big and slow (atom mainly) . Vim with vimtex and some snippets works pretty good, I didn't try latex with coc yet, I think is possible.
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