From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: In search for an emacs hacker Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 19:51:44 +0200 Message-ID: <8735qhoamn.fsf@zoho.eu> References: Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22787"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:t87ybfrwiscxynRRcp7SkAN6MFM= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 06 19:52:37 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mNInM-0005jT-U2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 19:52:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58418 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNInL-0001Jh-Ip for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 13:52:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57232) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNImj-0001JS-Qq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 13:51:57 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:42340) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mNImh-0001pI-T3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 13:51:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mNImg-0004ir-2E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2021 19:51:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:132929 Archived-At: 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 before and got quite > some things done already. For example, we have created > a minor mode which overlays citations in APA-Style > , 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 :) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal