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emacs + elisp. Emacs has proven staying power. Using emacs as a base to improve an internal business process.

• gkya 9y ago
  Details (if possible)? I'm an Emacs geek myself and would really appreciate knowing how you can use it in business.
  • _e 9y ago
    Sure...using forms-mode to search, add and update information in a postgres db. I would like to find a way for everyone to use org-mode but we were running into too many merge conflicts. I just learned about mmm-mode (https://github.com/purcell/mmm-mode https://github.com/purcell/mmm-mode) but I haven't really dug into it to see if this could be the bridge between Org-mode + forms-mode.
    • girzel 9y ago
      Interesting, I hadn't thought of using forms-mode to do that. It doesn't seem to support it out of the box – are you writing other functions to dump the results of a postgres query into a file, and then using forms-mode to edit that? Editing and entering structured data is still one of the most annoying tasks I do, and I still don't have a good solution to it.
      • _e 9y ago
        We have postgrest ( https://postgrest.com https://postgrest.com ) between emacs and postgres. PostgREST turns a postgresql database into a restful api. The emacs package requires request, json, widget, wid-edit and cl. I would like to open source it in the near future.
        • girzel 9y ago
          Announce it someplace if you do!
          • _e 9y ago
            Will do!