Show Notes
<p>Morgan finally overcomes her fear of <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">Emacs</a>
and we talk about Morgan and Christine's respective experiences
learning it, and how you can pick it up too!</p><p><strong>Our talks tomorrow</strong> at <a href="https://fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a>'s
<a href="https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/declarative_and_minimalistic_computing/">Declarative and Minimalistic Computing</a>
room:</p><ul><li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/lispforeveryone/">Lisp but Beautiful; Lisp for Everyone</a></li><li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/spritelygoblins/">Spritely Goblins Comes to Guile</a></li></ul><p><strong>Switching capslock and ctrl stuff:</strong> (it's a great idea even if you don't
use Emacs; <a href="http://xahlee.info/kbd/keyboard_ctrl_vs_capslock_position.html">many keyboards used to have ctrl key where capslock now is</a>,
and much advanced program use benefits from keyboard shortcuts):</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://opensource.com/article/18/11/how-swap-ctrl-and-caps-lock-your-keyboard">Switching on GNU/Linux</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://zachrussell.net/blog/map-caps-lock-to-control-windows/">Switching on Windows 10 & 11</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a25709/caps-lock-to-backspace-control/">Switching on OSX</a></p></li><li><p>On <a href="https://guix.gnu.org/">Guix</a>: <code>(keyboard-layout "us" #:options '("caps:ctrl_modifier" "shift:both_capslock"))</code> in your system configuration both makes capslock a ctrl and allows you to press both shift keys at once to enable capslock behavior (should you want such a thing)</p></li><li><p>And actually there's <a href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MovingTheCtrlKey">a whole EmacsWiki page about it</a></p></li></ul><p><strong>Links:</strong></p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">Emacs</a>!</p></li><li><p><a href="https://git-scm.com/">Git</a> and <a href="https://magit.vc/">Magit</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://orgmode.org/">Org-Mode</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.spacemacs.org/">Spacemacs</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://github.com/corvideon/mousemacs">Mousemacs</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://emacsthemes.com/">Emacs Themes</a>… find one that's right for you!</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/elisp.html">The Emacs lisp reference manual</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://emacsconf.org/">emacsconf</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://emacsconf.org/2020/talks/17/">Org-mode and Org-Roam for Scholars and Researchers</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://sachachua.com/">Sacha Chua</a>, whose blog is full of awesome <a href="https://sachachua.com/blog/category/emacs">emacs</a> and <a href="https://sachachua.com/blog/category/emacs-news">emacs news</a>
posts, and who also releases <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/SachaChua">lots of great videos about Emacs</a>!</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/emacsrocks">Emacs Rocks!</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/14-digital-humanities-workshops.html">Episode 14: Digital Humanities Workshops</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/15-scribble-and-the-open-document-format.html">Episode 15: Scribble and the Open Document Format</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html">mu4e</a>, <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/erc.html">ERC</a>, <a href="https://code.librehq.com/qhong/crdt.el">crdt.el</a> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYv3QF_-QcU">video</a>)… many more emacs tools mentioned,
not all linked! Trying to be comprehensive would result in a
trip to the <code>M-x doctor</code> for sure…</p></li><li><p><a href="https://gitlab.com/dustyweb/wireworld-el">wireworld-el</a>, Christine's (minimalist) implementation of the
<a href="https://www.quinapalus.com/wi-index.html">wireworld cellular automata</a> (cellular automata circuits!)</p></li><li><p>And yes, it turns out you CAN annotate PDFs in emacs, using
the <a href="https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools">pdf-tools</a> package!</p></li></ul>