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WEBVTT
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(Amin: ... for the list of questions in whatever
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order you like.)
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Okay, so I see what package is used,
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probably symex-mode...
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Right. So the main package that was
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being demoed,
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that is not yet on MELPA. In fact, I
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haven't even decided on a name for it.
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I've alternately called
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it epistemic-mode, I've called it
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england, I called it
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all kinds of things, but at the moment
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you can find it on my Github. There's a link
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in the presentation itself, if you go to
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https://github.com/countvajhula, you'll see
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the package there. It's currently
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named Indra, but
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I'm not sure. (Organizer: Package is
called rigpa.)
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Actually, yes, the second one is
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correct. That was the name that I selected
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last night. That's because it...
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There's a concept in Tibetan Buddhism
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that seems like it might have something
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to do with
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the kinds of concepts we're talking
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about with this package, so I just
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thought it would be a good name for it.
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You can look up that concept
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and get a sense of it on Wikipedia.
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Next question is "how to deal with Dvorak
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or however that's pronounced.
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This has always bugged me.
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Is there an Xmodmap mode?" So the thing
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with this is it's kind of surprising, but
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although Vim
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was originally developed
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with the idea of
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the key bindings being on the home row,
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it turns out that that is actually not a
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major aspect
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of the Vim editing experience, so
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people who use the Dvorak layout
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actually end up using the same keys as
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they do on the normal QWERTY layout, so
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they don't remap anything,
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because
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the power that Vim--or the
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flexibility, the
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spiral that Vim enables on QWERTY-layout
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keyboards is exactly
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preserved, even on a Dvorak keyboard,
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even though your
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fingers are not in the same positions.
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It's not a big deal, actually.
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"I mostly use default model
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provided by vanilla Emacs and work and
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Org Mode for text editing. Can you give
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me some examples
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of how the user can use the concept of
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"mode of mode"
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to do some interesting editing?
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Probably the main thing would be
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the keystrokes would be less
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contrived.
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The fewer modes you have,
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the more modifiers you need
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in order to do whatever it is that
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you're trying to do, because you've got,
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essentially, with the Emacs model, you've got
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a completely flat
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keyboard structure. So all of the
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different things that you might
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want to express are all mapped to a flat
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keyboard, a set of keys.
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With this kind of
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modal structure, the more modes you have,
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the more the individual keystrokes
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become
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shorter and shorter. That could be one
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benefit that would be provided.
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With many modes, your keystrokes would
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generally
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be a single keystroke long for even
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relatively complex tasks,
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because you're setting the context
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beforehand.
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So you already say, "Oh, I'm going to be
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talking about this Org buffer
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agenda," and then
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all the keystrokes that you do at
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that point would be in relation to that.
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(Amin: I think we have time for like
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one more short question.)
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One more short question... Okay, let's see.
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"How do new modes come into existence?" You
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can make them yourself,
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and you can specify them in Emacs
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Lisp
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if you like, but there's also a simple way.
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You can also do it visually as we did.
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But yeah, defining them
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is essentially built on top of Hydra, but
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it could also be built on top of Evil or
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any other modal interface provider.
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There's an abstraction layer.
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(Amin: Okay. Thank you so much for your talk and
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for the live Q&A.)
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Sure, thank you. (Amin: Feel free to take
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up the rest of the questions either via
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IRC or
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on the pad on on your own time off the
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stream.)
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Perfect. Yeah, I'll go ahead and put in
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some answers there.
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(Amin: Awesome, thank you.) All right, thank you.
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Have a good one.
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(Amin: Thanks you too)
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