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+My name is Corwin Brust and I
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+will be talking about getting started
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+with Emacs today.
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+I have been an Emacs user for a long
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+time. First of all, thanks and a huge
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+welcome to the conference
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+from me and
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+and on behalf
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+and back to the other people that
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+have been helping to organize.
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+It's been amazing just to be involved
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+with that and just, kind of, see
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+backstage.
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+So I've used a lot of different editors
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+in my time. That's
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+about 25 years as a professional
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+software engineer.
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+And most of that time I've been using
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+Emacs. I'll talk a little bit in a minute
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+(if I can ever find my slides)
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+about how I got into Emacs
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+but I think if you've used Emacs and a
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+lot of other editors for a long time,
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+something that you notice right away is that
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+you get good with it in a way that stays
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+meaningful.
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+You learn new things. Those things
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+stick with you. You learn how to
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+make it do new tricks and then
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+keep doing those tricks.
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+I want to mention that this
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+conference--oops,
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+this talk isn't about
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+how to adjust your
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+configuration specifically. I don't have
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+a bunch of good code samples in here.
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+There are other great talks at the
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+conference, particularly Andrew's,
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+that I looked at, that looked
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+like they might be more aimed at that
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+"hey, I'm just getting started with Emacs,
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+what are some things to try to make
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+it more comfortable for me starting?" This
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+is about how to think about the problem
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+space.
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+Hopefully, a good warm up as we
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+start thinking about some of the
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+lightning talks a little later on.
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+I'm just gonna quickly make sure I
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+can see my IRC buffer in case I run into
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+time. I didn't get my stopwatch started
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+for this one.
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+So all right, let's dive in.
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+We assume that we want to install
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+packages
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+and maybe configure some features. This
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+is particularly from the perspective of
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+where we're working
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+with a bunch of people on a team and we
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+want to get something done.
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+Some of us probably already have mature
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+Emacs workflows.
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+Others are installing it for the first
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+time.
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+So the first question is, you know,
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+in that context: what's the value
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+proposition? Why should I mess with my
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+machine, my mature Emacs
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+configuration, and impose my
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+ideas over the way somebody else is
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+learning Emacs? Well,
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+it can be.. I'm off my slides here a
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+little bit.
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+It can be a little bit
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+tricky
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+to learn Emacs. One thing that
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+helps us a lot
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+is if people that we're working with
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+can tell us, kinda, keystroke for
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+keystroke at times, what to do and
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+explain what everything is doing.
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+Using the same packages can really
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+help us working together on a project.
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+Speaking from my personal
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+experience,
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+it took me decades to get to the point
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+where I was excited to program in Emacs
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+Lisp. I've programmed in a lot of programming
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+languages,
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+but Lisp wasn't on my list. I looked at
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+my config that I was copy-pasting around
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+from generation after generation of 
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+.emacs file or
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+recrafting it from hand and from Internet
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+searches,
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+to get the things that I needed when
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+I would quickly go install Emacs at some
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+new job or contract,
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+and 
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+be able to to quickly get through that
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+workflow that caused me to install the
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+program.
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+You know, just
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+little simple one-liners that that
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+got committed to memory over decades
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+eventually just led me to a sort of "hey what's going on
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+here." And I credit
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+Jeff Goff, my good friend who died
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+earlier in 2020,
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+for my lifelong love of Emacs.
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+Perhaps EriK and I will talk about that
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+a little bit more in another talk we
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+have
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+scheduled, but Jeff was a huge
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+influenceo on us 
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+in a number of ways and a huge
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+contributor to the Raku programming
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+language 
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+which is very cool.
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+So, understanding how
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+to make a good decision about splitting
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+up configuration in a way to share it
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+across
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+people with really different uses of
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+Emacs... That's actually a
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+complicated topic and I want to
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+sort of back off and stare at it for a
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+second.
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+I think Emacs is about people, so that
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+means it's about community.
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+And community means we're going to
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+invite disagreement.
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+In fact, that disagreement
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+isn't necessarily a road-block to our
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+project. In fact, 
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+some of the work that a community
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+project can invite us to do
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+is to get closer to each other by
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+inviting those disagreements, by
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+learning from them--learning from
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+different people's
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+styles and from how they argue,
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+and thinking about why they have that
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+perspective and 
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+what technical benefits that
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+perhaps radical point of view might
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+carry away. Some people are really
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+aggressive arguers, and others
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+are very passive and really
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+couch their ideas
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+in distancing terms, to say, "well
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+probably, this is a good idea" or
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+"please double check me."
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+Those don't always necessarily indicate
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+how certain a person is, because we're
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+different. We have different ways of
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+communicating
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+ideas like certainty or excitement.
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+[Music]
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+When we think about a bunch of really
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+diverse programmers approaching Emacs,
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+probably one of our our first really big
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+challenges is just
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+to pick what we're going to go
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+after. There are a lot of
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+existing kit
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+installs and things like this.
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+My argument is that you could actually
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+get pretty far
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+just trading files around. Maybe the
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+more valuable
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+conversation to have is making the
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+hard decisions about, well,
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+"should we have vertical completion,"
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+should that be the out of the box,
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+and the people that want
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+the traditional splayed out over a
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+single line completion
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+for example in the mode line, those
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+people are going to
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+add a line of config 
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+to their own setup?
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+The way to get there? I mean, how do we
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+find out what works? We don't want to
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+slow down the people that
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+are super productive with Emacs by
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+asking them to completely break their
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+workflows and make it easier for new
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+folks.
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+At the same time, we do
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+want to make sure those new people are
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+excited by Emacs and not turned off by
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+having to learn
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+the entire jungle of Emacs
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+history in the form of its
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+unique technical stylings for
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+things like frames,
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+buffers, and other unique
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+Emacs viewpoints on important
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+interface concepts, especially.
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+The encouragement here is to keep
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+the initialization for a project team
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+together as a crucible.
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+Rather than necessarily following our
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+defaults of
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+finding the simplest configuration
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+that generally work and letting people
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+customize it,
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+what if we tried to look
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+for fairly specific configurations that
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+we'll expect essentially all of our
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+developers to be using,
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+at least when they submit bug reports.
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+In particular, with this,
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+I think that degree of
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+experimentation
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+can drive back into the Emacs
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+development process. In the development
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+mailing list...
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+I'm hoping I'll get a timing cue
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+here.
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+In the context of Emacs development as a
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+greater
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+entity, we see some of these struggles.
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+Should we change this default?
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+Sometimes we can have the
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+sense that defaults in Emacs will never
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+change. The conversation is too difficult.
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+I think one thing that can help us get
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+there is evidence
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+that says, "hey my 30- to 40-person project
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+is using this set of bindings and
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+here's what we learned about
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+brand new Emacs users trying to come in
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+and get work done with that."
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+(Amin: Yeah you still have
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+a couple more minutes)
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+Oh, beautiful. Okay, great. I will try to
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+get through my last few slides that i
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+cut 
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+in my last walkthrough, but I think i'm
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+going quicker today thank you.
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+Thank you.
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+So let's just recap real quick:
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+in theory, Emacs works
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+out of the box. That means we're 
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+free to experiment. We can 
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+throw it all away and start over.
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+As an organizational principle...
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+I don't know what I was thinking on that
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+slide, excuse me.
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+Bringing it back around
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+to the free
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+and open source software community,
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+our goal
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+is to enable users
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+to unlock their computers, to do as much
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+with them as possible.
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+That's the context to take with project
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+initialization, but sometimes
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+it could make sense to put...
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+[Music]
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+to put some gloves on. I've thrown up on
+
+0:10:53.040,0:10:57.279
+the screen here just a couple of other
+
+0:10:54.880,0:10:57.920
+ideas, ways to maybe think outside of the
+
+0:10:57.279,0:11:00.399
+box.
+
+0:10:57.920,0:11:01.440
+As you're putting together project
+
+0:11:00.399,0:11:04.959
+nets,
+
+0:11:01.440,0:11:05.519
+my words of encouragement are to experiment
+
+0:11:04.959,0:11:09.200
+with it,
+
+0:11:05.519,0:11:10.560
+try different things, and think really
+
+0:11:09.200,0:11:14.320
+specifically about how
+
+0:11:10.560,0:11:17.760
+different the development users
+
+0:11:14.320,0:11:21.680
+might be from each other as you
+
+0:11:17.760,0:11:23.519
+define standards for configuring
+
+0:11:21.680,0:11:25.360
+the user environment of Emacs
+
+0:11:23.519,0:11:29.120
+specifically for developing
+
+0:11:25.360,0:11:30.480
+on a project. That's pretty much my talk.
+
+0:11:29.120,0:11:32.959
+If there's any time, I would take a
+
+0:11:30.480,0:11:35.040
+couple questions.
+
+0:11:32.959,0:11:36.480
+Thank you for your awesome talk,
+
+0:11:35.040,0:11:38.160
+Corwin.
+
+0:11:36.480,0:11:43.839
+I think we have one or two
+
+0:11:38.160,0:11:43.839
+minutes for a few questions.
+
+0:11:49.519,0:11:53.839
+Do you have the pad open or would you
+
+0:11:52.000,0:11:56.959
+like me to read the questions for you?
+
+0:11:53.839,0:11:58.000
+Oh, I managed to close the
+
+0:11:56.959,0:12:00.560
+pad
+
+0:11:58.000,0:12:03.440
+and I am trying to open it again. All
+
+0:12:00.560,0:12:03.440
+right, there it opened.
+
+0:12:03.519,0:12:06.880
+Bringing it onto a screen where I can
+
+0:12:05.040,0:12:08.399
+see it. Will you read me the
+
+0:12:06.880,0:12:09.360
+first question while I drag windows
+
+0:12:08.399,0:12:12.720
+around, please?
+
+0:12:09.360,0:12:15.600
+(Amin: Sure. It says, "do you use Emacs as a
+
+0:12:12.720,0:12:17.680
+community building tool?")
+
+0:12:15.600,0:12:19.760
+Do I use Emacs as a community building
+
+0:12:17.680,0:12:23.519
+tool, or how do I?
+
+0:12:19.760,0:12:26.720
+(Amin: It just says do you.) Yes, absolutely.
+
+0:12:23.519,0:12:29.920
+I think Emacs is an ambassador to
+
+0:12:26.720,0:12:33.279
+the GNU tool chain.
+
+0:12:29.920,0:12:34.560
+I think that in the fullness of time, we
+
+0:12:33.279,0:12:38.240
+will see an Emacs
+
+0:12:34.560,0:12:42.000
+that makes
+
+0:12:38.240,0:12:42.800
+and that makes iOS and Android and other
+
+0:12:42.000,0:12:45.680
+closed-source
+
+0:12:42.800,0:12:46.320
+tools dream. That's why they mock us
+
+0:12:45.680,0:12:49.200
+and call
+
+0:12:46.320,0:12:51.440
+Emacs an operating system. It's because
+
+0:12:49.200,0:12:53.920
+it could be, if we cared for it to be.
+
+0:12:51.440,0:12:55.680
+It's quite a threatening product
+
+0:12:55.680,0:12:59.440
+from the perspective of how many problem
+
+0:12:57.440,0:13:01.519
+spaces it can address, how many types of
+
+0:12:59.440,0:13:04.399
+users it can satisfy,
+
+0:13:01.519,0:13:05.600
+the things that we can do to make
+
+0:13:04.399,0:13:07.839
+it robust in those
+
+0:13:05.600,0:13:09.760
+environments. I mean, we're always
+
+0:13:07.839,0:13:11.839
+thinking about the weak points, but
+
+0:13:09.760,0:13:14.079
+is Emacs a community building tool? Heck
+
+0:13:11.839,0:13:14.079
+yeah.
+
+0:13:14.639,0:13:18.480
+(Amin: There's like one or two more
+
+0:13:17.920,0:13:21.519
+questions.
+
+0:13:18.480,0:13:22.480
+I think they're more long-form so it
+
+0:13:21.519,0:13:24.000
+might be better
+
+0:13:22.480,0:13:26.880
+if you took them off stream so you
+
+0:13:24.000,0:13:28.959
+could keep the schedule on time.)
+
+0:13:26.880,0:13:31.040
+i would love to take those questions
+
+0:13:28.959,0:13:32.399
+offline. I will respond to you in
+
+0:13:31.040,0:13:33.360
+writing if we don't get to it in a
+
+0:13:32.399,0:13:35.519
+breakout room.
+
+0:13:33.360,0:13:36.639
+Thanks so much for joining us. I
+
+0:13:35.519,0:13:38.000
+can't wait to see the rest of the
+
+0:13:36.639,0:13:42.800
+conference. See you there!
+
+0:13:38.000,0:13:42.800
+(Amin: Awesome. Thank you again so much, Corwin.)
+