Re: In search for an emacs hacker

[Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

Vitus Schäfftlein wrote:

> tl;dr looking to hire an emacs hacker who helps me change
> emacs to make it work for academics.

... "academics"

> I've been using emacs for about a month now and have started
> realizing how great it is! I really like that you can do
> basically anything with it, and I have noticed the huge
> potential emacs has for academics (I'm thinking of org-ref,
> org-roam-(bibtex), org-noter, pdftools, org-transclude,  and
> of course the LaTeX-export functionality of org-mode)

...

> The problem about all this is that, at the moment, it is
> frustrating to use emacs for all this. I got errors all the
> time which have costed me days of my time and probably quite
> some hair already. Often times, functions do not work as
> they should or functionality that is needed for a good
> workflow is not implemented. Getting things to run on
> windows, which most people use, is a pain on its own.

Is this for real?

> For this reason, I want to create my own blog on which
> I explain how to use emacs as an academic. Now these people
> aren't emacs programmers and neither am I (I know how to set
> variables, key-bind functions, and some very basic lisp, but
> that's it), so my goal is to (1) provide simple
> step-by-step-instructions to get everything running smoothly
> and (2) describe in detail how an emacs workflow for
> academics can look like. My big dream is to eventually
> create something like doom emacs or spacemacs, but for
> academics. Functions and key-bindings should closely
> resemble those of programs academics usually use.
>
...

> Before that happens, though, I need to get everything
> running smoothly first, and I openly admit I am simply not
> capable of this. I have been working with a great emacs
> hacker <https://github.com/alezost> before and got quite
> some things done already. For example, we have created
> a minor mode which overlays citations in APA-Style
> <https://github.com/alezost/org-ref-prettify.el>, changed
> magic latex buffer so that it is better suited for writing
> math/logic in it and configured org-mode to create
> awesome-looking PDFs. Unfortunately, though, Alex has his
> focus on other projects now, so I am all alone again.

Unheard of :)

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