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-00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:26.960 -half and I have been - -00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:29.119 -keeping it up ever since violin is a - -00:00:29.119 --> 00:00:30.240 -huge part of my life - -00:00:30.240 --> 00:00:33.360 -and I am very much a musician at heart - -00:00:33.360 --> 00:00:36.239 -I am also a somewhat capable programmer - -00:00:36.239 --> 00:00:37.840 -I've done a lot of informal programming - -00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:39.280 -in the past - -00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:42.559 -and this year I'm taking my first ap - -00:00:42.559 --> 00:00:44.079 -compsci course - -00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:47.440 -in my high school and so - -00:00:47.440 --> 00:00:51.039 -I've done a lot of side projects - -00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:54.239 -mainly in python and some very short - -00:00:54.239 --> 00:00:56.800 -scripts in e-lisp - -00:00:56.800 --> 00:00:59.840 -and last but not least I am a tinker - -00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:02.879 -I love to play around with things and - -00:01:02.879 --> 00:01:06.720 -see what I can do better and just - -00:01:06.720 --> 00:01:10.880 -have as much fun as possible - -00:01:10.880 --> 00:01:15.040 -so how did I find Emacs - -00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:17.600 -I discovered it actually through a talk - -00:01:17.600 --> 00:01:18.880 -funnily enough - -00:01:18.880 --> 00:01:21.360 -at a vim conference given by aaron - -00:01:21.360 --> 00:01:23.520 -bieber - -00:01:23.520 --> 00:01:25.840 -titled evil mode or how I learned to - -00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:28.320 -stop worrying and love Emacs - -00:01:28.320 --> 00:01:31.439 -I watched that talk a couple times over - -00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:33.360 -just marveling at all the wonderful - -00:01:33.360 --> 00:01:35.759 -things that he could do in Emacs - -00:01:35.759 --> 00:01:38.799 -and being a previous vim user myself - -00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:41.680 -I found it very enticing to be able to - -00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:42.399 -have - -00:01:42.399 --> 00:01:44.960 -the evil mode package and very quickly - -00:01:44.960 --> 00:01:47.040 -switch to Emacs - -00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:48.799 -at the time I was also in my sophomore - -00:01:48.799 --> 00:01:51.040 -year and so - -00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:54.640 -I had had sort of a note-taking system - -00:01:54.640 --> 00:01:56.320 -in the past - -00:01:56.320 --> 00:01:59.360 -but it was not good um and I needed a - -00:01:59.360 --> 00:02:01.680 -more organized note-taking system - -00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:03.759 -my parents had suggested paper for a - -00:02:03.759 --> 00:02:04.960 -while and - -00:02:04.960 --> 00:02:08.160 -there was the whole organization - -00:02:08.160 --> 00:02:10.959 -part of that but that did not really - -00:02:10.959 --> 00:02:12.080 -work out for me - -00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:14.000 -and so I was trying to find this better - -00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:16.239 -note-taking system - -00:02:16.239 --> 00:02:19.440 -and it was very hard - -00:02:19.440 --> 00:02:22.239 -I had two main criteria which I did not - -00:02:22.239 --> 00:02:23.520 -define at the time - -00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:25.360 -but I realized was really what I was - -00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:26.640 -looking for - -00:02:26.640 --> 00:02:28.720 -first of all it had to be flexible - -00:02:28.720 --> 00:02:30.959 -enough and second of all it had - -00:02:30.959 --> 00:02:33.920 -I had to have control over the data and - -00:02:33.920 --> 00:02:34.959 -so - -00:02:34.959 --> 00:02:37.519 -through this process I actually went - -00:02:37.519 --> 00:02:39.680 -through a bunch of note-taking softwares - -00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:42.640 -rather systematically I went through - -00:02:42.640 --> 00:02:44.080 -google docs - -00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:47.519 -which very much did not work out - -00:02:47.519 --> 00:02:49.840 -I also went through evernote which also - -00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:50.640 -was not - -00:02:50.640 --> 00:02:53.200 -great for me and one note which I - -00:02:53.200 --> 00:02:55.200 -settled on for a little while - -00:02:55.200 --> 00:02:58.800 -but it did not meet these criteria - -00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:01.519 -particularly the second one I had taken - -00:03:01.519 --> 00:03:02.159 -some notes - -00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:05.280 -and I wanted to export it and onenote - -00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:07.519 -did not let me do that - -00:03:07.519 --> 00:03:12.000 -it was pdf horribly organized pdf - -00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:14.879 -and that's when I knew I needed some - -00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:17.440 -change - -00:03:17.440 --> 00:03:21.519 -so I discovered Emacs through this talk - -00:03:21.519 --> 00:03:24.080 -and through the wonderful features of - -00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:27.040 -org mode - -00:03:27.040 --> 00:03:30.080 -this is my first journal entry in Emacs - -00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:34.000 -I had been playing with it for one day - -00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:36.159 -and I was on the org agenda and I - -00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:38.159 -happened to press I - -00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:40.720 -which for the Emacs combined is the - -00:03:40.720 --> 00:03:41.599 -default for - -00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:45.440 -diary entry and so I was very excited - -00:03:45.440 --> 00:03:48.720 -um and I shouldn't stay on the slide too - -00:03:48.720 --> 00:03:50.239 -long unless you read it - -00:03:50.239 --> 00:03:53.760 -um so let's move on to the next one - -00:03:53.760 --> 00:03:57.200 -um so the learning curve for me I think - -00:03:57.200 --> 00:04:00.480 -particularly being an xbm user - -00:04:00.480 --> 00:04:03.760 -evil mode made it very easy to switch - -00:04:03.760 --> 00:04:06.080 -thankfully I there was the emax - -00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:07.439 -reference sheet - -00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:10.799 -and having evil mode to - -00:04:10.799 --> 00:04:14.080 -switch between um - -00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:17.440 -texts and whether it be editing a text - -00:04:17.440 --> 00:04:17.919 -file - -00:04:17.919 --> 00:04:20.560 -or going to other parts of just Emacs in - -00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:21.600 -general - -00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:24.800 -I think vim really helped with making me - -00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:26.840 -feel comfortable within this new - -00:04:26.840 --> 00:04:28.000 -environment - -00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:31.440 -and so having that experience I also - -00:04:31.440 --> 00:04:31.919 -wasn't - -00:04:31.919 --> 00:04:34.240 -new to the keybind-based world I have - -00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:36.320 -been very comfortable with computer - -00:04:36.320 --> 00:04:40.160 -and the keyboard for most of my life - -00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:43.520 -and so it was not a totally new - -00:04:43.520 --> 00:04:45.520 -environment for me - -00:04:45.520 --> 00:04:47.440 -I also spent a lot of time looking at - -00:04:47.440 --> 00:04:49.360 -the Emacs reference sheet - -00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:53.040 -just thinking about trying to find - -00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:55.040 -all of the different functions if I - -00:04:55.040 --> 00:04:56.639 -didn't know what something was - -00:04:56.639 --> 00:04:59.680 -then I queried it in Emacs and then I - -00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:01.199 -figured out what it was - -00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:03.759 -and that was one of the best ways for me - -00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:05.600 -to discover - -00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:09.360 -all of the capabilities of Emacs - -00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:11.440 -thirdly of course the self-documenting - -00:05:11.440 --> 00:05:12.800 -feature - -00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:15.199 -or nature of Emacs and narrowing - -00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:17.120 -frameworks such as helm - -00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:20.479 -really helped find things especially for - -00:05:20.479 --> 00:05:21.360 -mx - -00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:25.919 -for a while I was just - -00:05:25.919 --> 00:05:28.160 -I would go about my day and if I pressed - -00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:29.520 -to keep mine that I didn't know what it - -00:05:29.520 --> 00:05:30.720 -did - -00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:34.560 -I would do the losses and - -00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:36.240 -see the list of key binds that I had - -00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:37.600 -pressed and - -00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:40.400 -tried to find that one and query the - -00:05:40.400 --> 00:05:41.280 -function - 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-00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:24.639 -all of that stuff has been truly a - -00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:25.840 -lifesaver - -00:06:25.840 --> 00:06:28.400 -and so I think I can confidently say - -00:06:28.400 --> 00:06:31.199 -that I have found Emacs to be - -00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:35.280 -the perfect software for me - -00:06:35.280 --> 00:06:38.639 -over the past two years of using Emacs - -00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:42.240 -now it is about two years and two months - -00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:45.039 -I have built a fairly well organized - -00:06:45.039 --> 00:06:46.160 -2000 - -00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:49.520 -plus line org literate config - -00:06:49.520 --> 00:06:52.160 -and so I actually I started with an - -00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:53.840 -e-lisp config - -00:06:53.840 --> 00:06:56.800 -just the vanilla e-max with evil mode - -00:06:56.800 --> 00:06:57.919 -and I built it up - -00:06:57.919 --> 00:07:00.319 -from there eventually I switched to org - -00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:02.400 -literate configs - -00:07:02.400 --> 00:07:05.840 -and used that to organize the snippets - -00:07:05.840 --> 00:07:10.080 -that I was putting in there and so - -00:07:10.080 --> 00:07:14.000 -yeah this is really my workflow now - -00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:16.639 -currently about 90 of everything I do on - -00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:18.960 -my computer is in Emacs - -00:07:18.960 --> 00:07:21.520 -the most notable things of course the - -00:07:21.520 --> 00:07:22.319 -list is far - -00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:26.000 -too long to put on one slide but I do a - -00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:28.160 -lot of my programming in Emacs - -00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:31.280 -mainly python and e-lisp - -00:07:31.280 --> 00:07:33.759 -because of my ap comp sci class I have - -00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:35.199 -to do java as well - -00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:38.720 -and thank goodness Emacs has wonderful - -00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:41.840 -support for that as well - -00:07:41.840 --> 00:07:45.840 -also I do all of my school assignments - -00:07:45.840 --> 00:07:48.800 -more or less in Emacs essay writing I do - -00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:50.400 -an org mode and I have some template - 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-00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:33.440 -and whatnot um and I also use mail - -00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:35.680 -I recently made the switch probably - -00:08:35.680 --> 00:08:37.680 -about one or two months ago - -00:08:37.680 --> 00:08:40.479 -and it has been one of the best switches - -00:08:40.479 --> 00:08:40.959 -I've - -00:08:40.959 --> 00:08:44.480 -I've ever had especially given - -00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:46.320 -connecting to tasks all of this - -00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:47.839 -wonderful stuff - -00:08:47.839 --> 00:08:50.640 -just putting even more in Emacs is - -00:08:50.640 --> 00:08:54.160 -always a good thing I found - -00:08:54.160 --> 00:08:57.680 -so reflecting back on my journey I think - -00:08:57.680 --> 00:08:59.760 -one of the most important things was - -00:08:59.760 --> 00:09:01.440 -just having a reason to use it - -00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:04.480 -when I came to Emacs I had something - -00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:06.080 -that I was looking for - -00:09:06.080 --> 00:09:09.600 -and as soon as I found it I delved right - 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-00:09:51.040 --> 00:09:54.000 -really helped me become a better and - -00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:55.839 -more organized human being - -00:09:55.839 --> 00:09:58.880 -um I have some package ideas that I'm - -00:09:58.880 --> 00:10:01.920 -slowly working on and yeah I just hope - -00:10:01.920 --> 00:10:05.920 -to spread the word - -00:10:05.920 --> 00:10:08.000 -so thank you very much for listening to - -00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:09.360 -my lightning talk - -00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:11.360 -if you'd like to contact me here are - -00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:12.480 -three modes of - -00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:15.279 -or two modes of communication I will be - -00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:17.120 -on irc more - -00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:20.079 -soon and you can always email me if you - -00:10:20.079 --> 00:10:20.560 -have - -00:10:20.560 --> 00:10:23.200 -any questions you can also search me on - -00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:23.680 -youtube - -00:10:23.680 --> 00:10:26.399 -pierce wong violin thank you very much - -00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:26.800 -and - -00:10:26.800 --> 00:10:30.040 -I hope you enjoy the rest of the - -00:10:30.040 --> 00:10:33.040 -conference diff --git a/2020/subtitles/emacsconf-2020--26-emacs-as-a-highschooler-how-it-changed-my-life--pierce-wang.vtt b/2020/subtitles/emacsconf-2020--26-emacs-as-a-highschooler-how-it-changed-my-life--pierce-wang.vtt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f4a8cc83 --- /dev/null +++ b/2020/subtitles/emacsconf-2020--26-emacs-as-a-highschooler-how-it-changed-my-life--pierce-wang.vtt @@ -0,0 +1,490 @@ +WEBVTT + +00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:05.200 +Hello and welcome to my EmacsConf lightning talk. + +00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:09.840 +Today I'll be talking about my journey into Emacs as a high schooler + +00:00:09.840 --> 00:00:14.400 +and how it has changed my life. + +00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:19.520 +Right. So who am I? I am a senior at +Stanford Online High School, + +00:00:19.520 --> 00:00:22.800 +and I am also a violinist. + +00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:25.199 +I started violin when I was two and a half, + +00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:28.560 +and I have been keeping it up ever since. + +00:00:28.560 --> 00:00:30.240 +Violin is a huge part of my life, + +00:00:30.240 --> 00:00:33.360 +and I am very much a musician at heart. + +00:00:33.360 --> 00:00:36.239 +I am also a somewhat capable programmer. + +00:00:36.239 --> 00:00:39.280 +I've done a lot of informal programming in the past, + +00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:45.840 +and this year I'm taking my first AP Comp. Sci. course in my high school. + +00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:51.039 +And so I've done a lot of side projects, + +00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:56.800 +mainly in Python, and some very short scripts in Elisp. + +00:00:56.800 --> 00:00:59.840 +And last but not least, I am a tinker. + +00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:05.280 +I love to play around with things and see what I can do better, + +00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:10.880 +and just have as much fun as possible. + +00:01:10.880 --> 00:01:15.040 +So how did I find Emacs? + +00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:18.880 +I discovered it actually through a talk, funnily enough, + +00:01:18.880 --> 00:01:23.947 +at a Vim conference given by Aaron Bieber, titled: + +00:01:23.947 --> 00:01:28.320 +"Evil Mode or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Emacs." + +00:01:28.320 --> 00:01:31.439 +I watched that talk a couple times over, + +00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:35.759 +just marveling at all the wonderful things that he could do in Emacs. + +00:01:35.759 --> 00:01:38.799 +And being a previous Vim user myself, + +00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:42.399 +I found it very enticing to be able to have + +00:01:42.399 --> 00:01:47.040 +the evil-mode package and very quickly switch to Emacs. + +00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:49.680 +At the time, I was also in my sophomore year, + +00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:56.320 +and so I had had a sort of a note-taking system +in the past. + +00:01:56.320 --> 00:02:01.680 +But it was not good, and I needed a more organized note-taking system. + +00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:04.240 +My parents had suggested paper for a while, + +00:02:04.240 --> 00:02:09.759 +and there was the whole organization part of that, + +00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:12.080 +but that did not really work out for me. + +00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:16.239 +And so I was trying to find this better note-taking system, + +00:02:16.239 --> 00:02:19.440 +and it was very hard. + +00:02:19.440 --> 00:02:23.520 +I had two main criteria which I did not define at the time, + +00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:26.640 +but I realized was really what I was looking for. + +00:02:26.640 --> 00:02:29.599 +First of all, it had to be flexible enough, + +00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:33.680 +and second of all, I had to have control over the data. + +00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:36.239 +And so through this process, + +00:02:36.239 --> 00:02:41.920 +I actually went through a bunch of note-taking softwares rather systematically. + +00:02:41.920 --> 00:02:47.519 +I went through Google Docs, which very much did not work out. + +00:02:47.519 --> 00:02:52.080 +I also went through Evernote which also was not great for me, + +00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:55.200 +and OneNote, which I settled on for a little while, + +00:02:55.200 --> 00:02:58.800 +but it did not meet these criteria, + +00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:00.879 +particularly the second one. + +00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:03.840 +I had taken some notes and I wanted to export it, + +00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:07.519 +and OneNote did not let me do that. + +00:03:07.519 --> 00:03:12.000 +It was PDF. Horribly-organized PDF. + +00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:17.440 +And that's when I knew I needed some change. + +00:03:17.440 --> 00:03:21.519 +So I discovered Emacs through this talk, + +00:03:21.519 --> 00:03:27.040 +and through the wonderful features of Org Mode. + +00:03:27.040 --> 00:03:30.080 +This is my first journal entry in Emacs. + +00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:34.000 +I had been playing with it for one day, + +00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:35.760 +and I was on the Org Agenda, + +00:03:35.760 --> 00:03:38.159 +and I happened to press I, + +00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:43.040 +which for the Emacs keybinding is the default for diary entry. + +00:03:43.040 --> 00:03:45.440 +I was very excited. + +00:03:45.440 --> 00:03:50.239 +I shouldn't stay on the slide too long lest you read it. + +00:03:50.239 --> 00:03:53.760 +So let's move on to the next one. + +00:03:53.760 --> 00:03:57.200 +So the learning curve for me, I think, + +00:03:57.200 --> 00:04:00.480 +particularly being an ex-Vim user, + +00:04:00.480 --> 00:04:03.760 +evil-mode made it very easy to switch. + +00:04:03.760 --> 00:04:07.439 +Thankfully, there was the Emacs reference sheet, + +00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:16.160 +and having evil-mode to switch between texts... + +00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:17.919 +Whether it be editing a text file, + +00:04:17.919 --> 00:04:21.600 +or going to other parts of just Emacs in general, + +00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:25.520 +I think Vim really helped with making me feel comfortable + +00:04:25.520 --> 00:04:28.000 +within this new environment. + +00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:32.160 +So, having that experience, I also wasn't new + +00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:33.759 +to the keybind-based world. + +00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:36.320 +I have been very comfortable with the computer + +00:04:36.320 --> 00:04:40.160 +and the keyboard for most of my life, + +00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:45.520 +and so it was not a totally new environment for me. + +00:04:45.520 --> 00:04:49.360 +I also spent a lot of time looking at the Emacs reference sheet, + +00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:54.720 +Just thinking about trying to find all of the different functions. + +00:04:54.720 --> 00:04:58.720 +If I didn't know what something was, then I queried it in Emacs, + +00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:01.199 +and then I figured out what it was. + +00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:05.600 +And that was one of the best ways for me to discover + +00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:09.360 +all of the capabilities of Emacs. + +00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:12.800 +Thirdly, of course, the self-documenting feature + +00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:17.120 +or nature of Emacs and narrowing frameworks such as helm + +00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:21.360 +really helped find things, especially for M-x. + +00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:25.919 +For a while, I was just... + +00:05:25.919 --> 00:05:30.720 +I would go about my day, and if I pressed a keybind that I didn't know what it did, + +00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:37.039 +I would do the lossage and see the list of keybinds that I had pressed + +00:05:37.039 --> 00:05:43.039 +and tried to find that one, and query the function and what not. + +00:05:43.039 --> 00:05:48.160 +So yeah. And now we jump to now. + +00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:53.280 +So there is at least one moment in each day when I think + +00:05:53.280 --> 00:05:55.600 +how would I live without Emacs, + +00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:59.120 +particularly now during my senior year in high school. + +00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:04.880 +Things are very busy with school, violin, and other side projects. + +00:06:04.880 --> 00:06:12.720 +It's pretty crazy, and so Emacs and Org Mode has really helped me stay + +00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:14.479 +on track with everything. + +00:06:14.479 --> 00:06:16.319 +And the flexibility of these software + +00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:19.919 +is being able to have things in different files, + +00:06:19.919 --> 00:06:21.600 +notes within the tasks, + +00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:25.840 +all of that stuff has been truly a lifesaver. + +00:06:25.840 --> 00:06:28.400 +And so I think I can confidently say + +00:06:28.400 --> 00:06:35.280 +that I have found Emacs to be the perfect software for me + +00:06:35.280 --> 00:06:38.639 +over the past two years of using Emacs. + +00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:42.240 +Now it is about two years and two months. + +00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:45.039 +I have built a fairly well organized + +00:06:45.039 --> 00:06:49.520 +2000+ line Org literate config. + +00:06:49.520 --> 00:06:53.840 +I actually started with an Elisp config, + +00:06:53.840 --> 00:06:56.800 +just the vanilla Emacs with evil-mode, + +00:06:56.800 --> 00:06:59.039 +and I built it up from there. + +00:06:59.039 --> 00:07:02.400 +Eventually I switched to Org literate configs, + +00:07:02.400 --> 00:07:05.840 +and used that to organize the snippets + +00:07:05.840 --> 00:07:08.639 +that I was putting in there. + +00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:14.000 +So yeah, this is really my workflow now. + +00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:18.960 +Currently about 90% of everything I do on my computer is in Emacs. + +00:07:18.960 --> 00:07:21.360 +The most notable things, of course-- + +00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:25.280 +the list is far too long to put on one slide-- + +00:07:25.280 --> 00:07:28.160 +but I do a lot of my programming in Emacs, + +00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:31.280 +mainly Python and Elisp. + +00:07:31.280 --> 00:07:33.199 +Because of my AP Comp. Sci. class, + +00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:35.199 +I have to do Java as well, + +00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:41.840 +and thank goodness Emacs has wonderful support for that as well. + +00:07:41.840 --> 00:07:45.840 +Also, I do all of my school assignments, + +00:07:45.840 --> 00:07:47.840 +more or less, in Emacs. + +00:07:47.840 --> 00:07:51.919 +Essay writing I do in Org Mode, and I have some template files, + +00:07:51.919 --> 00:07:55.039 +template Org files which I just include at the top, + +00:07:55.039 --> 00:08:01.440 +and then I can export easily to LaTeX and a beautiful PDF. + +00:08:01.440 --> 00:08:03.440 +Math, physics, same thing. + +00:08:03.440 --> 00:08:09.599 +LaTeX fragments are a lifesaver, and also really pretty. + +00:08:09.599 --> 00:08:13.199 +I take notes on basically everything. + +00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:15.120 +At first, I had things separate, + +00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:19.680 +and then I started sort of putting it all into one notes.org file, + +00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:22.479 +or most of it into one file, + +00:08:22.479 --> 00:08:24.960 +and that has actually worked out surprisingly well, + +00:08:24.960 --> 00:08:30.442 +especially with all the searching +features of agenda and what not. + +00:08:30.442 --> 00:08:33.440 +And I also use mail. + +00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:37.680 +I recently made the switch, probably about one or two months ago, + +00:08:37.680 --> 00:08:42.399 +and it has been one of the best switches I've ever had, + +00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:47.839 +especially given connecting to tasks all of this wonderful stuff. + +00:08:47.839 --> 00:08:54.160 +Just putting even more in Emacs is always a good thing, I found. + +00:08:54.160 --> 00:08:56.959 +So reflecting back on my journey, + +00:08:56.959 --> 00:08:59.600 +I think one of the most important things + +00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:01.440 +was just having a reason to use it. + +00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:06.080 +When I came to Emacs I had something that I was looking for, + +00:09:06.080 --> 00:09:09.839 +and as soon as I found it, I delved right in, + +00:09:09.839 --> 00:09:12.720 +and I started using it for that thing. + +00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:16.240 +So I was sort of forced to take the time to read the docs + +00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:20.880 +and figure out what functions I needed to function + +00:09:20.880 --> 00:09:25.839 +and how I was going to put my workflow, + +00:09:25.839 --> 00:09:30.399 +and also, of course, the desire to tinker. + +00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:35.839 +So, really, what's next for me is just wanting to become + +00:09:35.839 --> 00:09:38.640 +a more active member of the Emacs community. + +00:09:38.640 --> 00:09:40.959 +I want to give back, and I think this talk + +00:09:40.959 --> 00:09:43.760 +is sort of the first step to that + +00:09:43.760 --> 00:09:46.399 +being a more active part of this community + +00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:52.720 +that has, indirectly, perhaps, but just really helped me + +00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:55.839 +become a better and more organized human being. + +00:09:55.839 --> 00:10:00.240 +I have some package ideas that I'm slowly working on, + +00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:05.920 +and yeah, I just hope to spread the word. + +00:10:05.920 --> 00:10:09.360 +So thank you very much for listening to my lightning talk. + +00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:11.360 +If you'd like to contact me here are + +00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:14.800 +three modes of or two modes of communication. + +00:10:14.800 --> 00:10:17.600 +I will be on IRC more soon, + +00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:22.079 +and you can always email me if you have any questions. + +00:10:22.079 --> 00:10:25.519 +You can also search me on Youtube: Pierce Wang violin. + +00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:33.040 +Thank you very much and I hope you enjoy the rest of the conference. |