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I’m really digging this forum. Thanks for making it, David. I could see this becoming the premiere place to talk about Emacs online (as long as it doesn’t get overrun by noobs with questions that are answerable by 5 seconds of googling; that’s a guideline we might want to consider having someday).
This is among the most hallowed of rituals, and must be done with great care. Begin by saying a solemn prayer to the most venerable St. Ignucius. Light a candle and place it on your desk in reverence. Chant the Song of Vim backwards. Finally open up a terminal and invoke the sacred incantation:
Hello! Happy to be here. I extensively used (along with the Prot’s) the systemcrafters emacs playlists on YT while learning emacs a few years ago.
What drew me to Emacs was its orgmode, and orgroam packages. I was seeking a personal knowledge organizer tools. I started with Logseq, and then moved to orgroam. Nowadays, I am transitioning to using denote package. It’s elegant simplicity attracts me.
Hoping to learn about better managing my ~/.config/emacs/init.el file, along with completion frameworks like vertico, orderless, consult, ivy, etc. These are quite confusing at first, one cannot stop wondering whether he is using some redundant packages among these. And one seeks how to get a lean (and mean!) setup that does what he asks to do and nothing more.
TLDR; Greetings! I stumbled onto this forum yesterday and so here I am introducing myself. I seem to be retired (i.e., my last gig ended a year or so ago), and after 47 years as a software engineer (Pascal, C, C++, Python, et. al.) I am finally allowing myself the luxury of learning Scheme well enough to build systems with it. Please don’t hate me for not using Emacs; after 35 years as a Vi/Vim user and three failed attempts to make the switch, I’m just not going down that path. My current tools are Vim/Vim-slime and Guile on MacOS, but I have Windows 10, Ubuntu, and Raspbian available as needed on my home network. When not computing I do NYTimes Sunday Crosswords, study French, and watch French police dramas on TV.
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