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Talks about Org-mode, by Carsten Dominik

18 points by KC8ZKF 16y ago

jashmenn 16y ago
Wait, the man who gives the introduction is blind and an emacs user? I've wondered that if I were to go blind, "how would I program?" and "what technology is available?" Who is this man and what is his setup? UPDATE: His name is T.V. Raman and apparently he uses something called Emacspeak. http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/raman/ http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/raman/ http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/emacspeak.html http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/emacspeak.html Anyone else have more info?
- xtacy 16y ago
  He works at Google; his PhD thesis was on "Audio system for technical readings" which won the ACM Best Doctoral Dissertation award in 1994. (EDIT: He was one of the winners---David Karger was the other one.) http://awards.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=4110221&srt=all&aw=146&ao=DOCDISRT&yr=1994 http://awards.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=4110221&srt=all&#3...
- koenigdavidmj 16y ago
  Apparently he created Emacspeak.
  - jashmenn 16y ago
    Right, which begs the question. How did he create it in the first place?
    - koenigdavidmj 16y ago
      With a damned good memory.
    - koenigdavidmj 16y ago
      Also, a lot of early blind computer users liked ed(1) and other console-based editors. One even wrote a browser (with JavaScript support!) with an ed-like interface: http://edbrowse.sourceforge.net/ http://edbrowse.sourceforge.net/
js4all 16y ago
Great to hear something about Org-mode. Development seems to have stalled for a while. I am desperately waiting for an iPad-compatible version of the companion mobile app. Org-mode is such a great tool, that I am not willing to switch to another solution, just because of the lack of an iPad app.
Ixiaus 16y ago
Org-mode is awesome, admittedly, it takes (just like anything Emacs related) a lot of up-front configuration and tweaking efforts but is well worth it.
- alextp 16y ago
  Actually, as far as emacs things goes, org mode is one of the few that works out of the box. My 500-line .emacs has no configurations in it whatsoever for org mode.
  - Ixiaus 16y ago
    True, it does work out of the box, but my workflow requires a lot of customizations - my org-mode customizations line count comes in a 162 lines... My .emacs got so big I had to split it up into init files: - programming mode customizations - productivity mode customizations - appearance customizations - behavioral customizations - keymapping customizations - gnus customizations (too big for productivity init) - standard requires that I use too often to autoload - templating and yasnippet routines
alextp 16y ago
Org-mode is great. I'm using it now to organize an intro to CS class at my university. I write the lecture notes, pass exercises, give grades, etc. There are so many things org mode can do I'm still frequently surprised at how useful it is, even after using it regularly for 3 years.

18 points by KC8ZKF 16y ago

Wait, the man who gives the introduction is blind and an emacs user? I've wondered that if I were to go blind, "how would I program?" and "what technology is available?" Who is this man and what is his setup? UPDATE: His name is T.V. Raman and apparently he uses something called Emacspeak. http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/raman/ http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/raman/ http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/emacspeak.html http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/emacspeak.html Anyone else have more info?

xtacy 16y ago
He works at Google; his PhD thesis was on "Audio system for technical readings" which won the ACM Best Doctoral Dissertation award in 1994. (EDIT: He was one of the winners---David Karger was the other one.) http://awards.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=4110221&srt=all&aw=146&ao=DOCDISRT&yr=1994 http://awards.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=4110221&srt=all&#3...
koenigdavidmj 16y ago
Apparently he created Emacspeak.
- jashmenn 16y ago
  Right, which begs the question. How did he create it in the first place?
  - koenigdavidmj 16y ago
    With a damned good memory.
  - koenigdavidmj 16y ago
    Also, a lot of early blind computer users liked ed(1) and other console-based editors. One even wrote a browser (with JavaScript support!) with an ed-like interface: http://edbrowse.sourceforge.net/ http://edbrowse.sourceforge.net/

js4all 16y ago

Great to hear something about Org-mode. Development seems to have stalled for a while. I am desperately waiting for an iPad-compatible version of the companion mobile app. Org-mode is such a great tool, that I am not willing to switch to another solution, just because of the lack of an iPad app.

Ixiaus 16y ago

Org-mode is awesome, admittedly, it takes (just like anything Emacs related) a lot of up-front configuration and tweaking efforts but is well worth it.

alextp 16y ago
Actually, as far as emacs things goes, org mode is one of the few that works out of the box. My 500-line .emacs has no configurations in it whatsoever for org mode.
- Ixiaus 16y ago
  True, it does work out of the box, but my workflow requires a lot of customizations - my org-mode customizations line count comes in a 162 lines... My .emacs got so big I had to split it up into init files: - programming mode customizations - productivity mode customizations - appearance customizations - behavioral customizations - keymapping customizations - gnus customizations (too big for productivity init) - standard requires that I use too often to autoload - templating and yasnippet routines

alextp 16y ago

Org-mode is great. I'm using it now to organize an intro to CS class at my university. I write the lecture notes, pass exercises, give grades, etc. There are so many things org mode can do I'm still frequently surprised at how useful it is, even after using it regularly for 3 years.