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<p><img class="alignright size-full" height="281" src="https://macadie.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Poussay.luke_.png" width="195" />There was a meeting of EmacsATX, the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/EmacsATX">Austin Emacs meetup</a>, last week. There was no set agenda.</p>
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<p>I started off by mentioning that while I have not continued working through Rainer Konig’s Org tutorial, I was using Org a lot more. I am using it to keep track of tasks. I am converting a lot of text files into org files, since a lot of topics in the files appear and re-appear. I also mentioned that I had started using the <a href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Desktop">Emacs Desktop</a> to save sessions. A lot of people were not familiar with that term. I don’t know why Emacs calls the file that saves session information the “Desktop”. Perhaps that is a holdover from the PDP-11 days. I used to keep an instance of JEdit open, and I am slowly phasing that over to an instance that uses the desktop. I also made an alias with “–no-desktop” so other instances to not try to use the desktop file. Since a lot of email is happening on GMail and Outlook, and the Emacs browser is not the greatest, it might be hard to do everything in Emacs these days. But I am using it more and more.</p>
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<p>I am also using Org to write this post.</p>
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<p>Anyway, one guy ranted about MELPA. He might make a blog post about it. I know some people do not think that Emacs handles packages and dependencies very well, but from what I have read, it used to be worse than it is today.</p>
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<p>A few people talked about using LSP, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Server_Protocol">Language Server Protocol</a> with Emacs. It started with VSCode. I think the idea is to make it easier for an editor to work with different programming languages. I don’t know if this makes language modes unnecessary in Emacs.</p>
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<p>There is nothing planned for the next meeting. I pointed out that since <a href="https://emacsconf.org/2021/">EmacsConf 2021</a> is between now and then, we could watch the videos on our own and talk about them. A few people seemed to like that idea. I have a task tree in an Org file to watch the videos from prior years. This was the first meeting in a few months in which Sacha Chua, the organizer of EmacsConf, was not present.</p>
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<p>You’re welcome.</p>
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<p><em>Image from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poussay_Gospels">Poussay Gospels</a>, a 10th century manuscript now housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, image from <a href="https://portail.biblissima.fr/fr/ark:/43093/mdataae06527de659d487860100da9fe505cf6c4c4063">Biblissima Portal</a>, assumed allowed under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain">Public Domain</a>. Luke’s symbol was an ox; it kind of looks like St Ignucius giving him Emacs.</em></p> |