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I lack even a reference for the sorts of things that can be done. How have Emacs users here customized their workflow?
by blipblap 7y ago
I lack even a reference for the sorts of things that can be done. How have Emacs users here customized their workflow?
- ballenarosada 7y agoI'm currently working on an extension to modify the built-in symbolic calculator to display its stack entries in rendered LaTeX--it already has various language modes for displaying its s-expression based formulas, including LaTeX, so this honestly isn't that big of a lift.
- brians 7y agoA huge amount is taking preweitten plugins—someone upthread said you should just learn your editor’s existing feature set, and this is true. But I use Emacs as a mail client—message mode is awesome—and extended it with a procedure to create text/html parts and all the necessary MIME headers. I especially like using that for tables that are readable in monospaces text/plain or as HTML tables. Compare that to a GUI mail editor, which surely defaults to HTML but which probably isn’t going to offer you tabular support. Let’s see. I have some fine control over white space in here, to meet different collaborator’s guidelines. And that integrates with the magit git front end. I have a bunch of macros driven by the abbrev autocorrect scheme. But in reflecting on this, the big important category is “Other”. I write 5-50 line programs, sometimes starting from a macro recording of one run of the core loop, weekly. Imagine a world where general spreadsheets didn’t exist; you had accounting software but it was all like TurboTax or quickbooks, very hard wired for a purpose. And imagine asking how users of Excel customized their workflows, as they tried to explain that the point was the total flexibility. Emacs is like that for text files.