Post #927665
2026-03-29 20:31 UTC
Replies (11)
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@slackline@mastodon.social 2026-03-29 20:39
@hell Emacs is where I spend the majority of my time, never quantified. - dired is brilliant for file management - magit for all your Git needs - mastodon.el for mastodon Useful communities... - Follow #emacs tab on Mastodon (use advanced queue and add a column for it) - EmacsStackexchange is a wealth of knowledge - /r/emacs is useful - @sacha newsletter - Blogs! Too many to list (& my RSS server is currently down) Messy notes https://org-roam.nshephard.dev/#754f25a5-3429-4504-8a17-4efea1568eba
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@devalot@hostux.social 2026-03-29 20:42
@hell I would say that I spend 80 to 90% of my computer time in Emacs (coding, note taking, email, etc.)
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@mapcar@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-03-29 20:47
@hell Welcome, just keep your questions coming, we are here to help. I am not quite sure about communities. For sure, we are here on mastodon. There are also mailing lists, but they tend to be quite busy. I would also expect there to be IRC channels, so it is perhaps mostly a question of what you would prefer.
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@alienghic@timeloop.cafe 2026-03-29 21:14
@hell I haven't achieved some of the more advanced life in emacs, but I've always got emacs open for notes and calculator. As for community there's a lot of blogs... @sacha has been publishing emacs news for many years. https://sachachua.com/blog/category/emacs-news/ Which looks like there's a lot of reddit links.
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@charliemac@mastodon.social 2026-03-30 00:11
@hell https://planet.emacslife.com/ is a good way to find people blogging emacs. I've started using emacs' built-in (one of many) newsticker for my feed reading
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@tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-30 02:50
@hell I do a lot of my computer in Emacs and at this point I am actively trying to put more of my computing in Emacs, so that I don't have to open a browser.
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@tekki@swiss.social 2026-03-30 06:13
@hell Just adding what wasn't mentioned yet: - orgmode for planning and time tracking - elfeed to listen to podcasts
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@pkal@social.sdfeu.org 2026-03-30 08:10
@hell I caution against the "os" (or "lisp machine") view, as it can be counterproductive. GNU Emacs is a part of a Unix system, and builds on/integrates external tooling. I think viewing it as a shell (i.e. general UI between human and machine) is more fruitful. It merges editing and a traditional CLI-like shell into one. Re: communities, there is a user mailing list https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs (you don't have to subscribe), where maintainers read along. There is also an IRC channel on libera.
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@Zenie@piaille.fr 2026-03-30 10:58
@hell here is a great place. I use emacs for almost everything. Code, editing, writing, journaling, tasks, more and more browsing, Ebooks, bande dessinée, mastodon, publishing, my music player is in emacs. I do my best not to leave. The things I don't do in emacs are WoW, audio and image editing. Sometimes browsing. It's nice to hve my editor and it's customizable environment in all that I do.
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@Zenie@piaille.fr 2026-03-30 11:30
@hell oh and I'm a Dvorak, hands down typist. Used beakl15 a few years, Bépo is off and on, but don't use it now. then HD neu, now on HD promethium. Haven't used qwerty since 99.
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@Saorsa@neondystopia.world 2026-03-30 11:33
I've heard Emacs is pretty extensible but is lisp annoying to read and write in. Hope you like parentheses. @hell@defcon.social