As someone who went straight from command line Git to Magit, I'm just now learning the built in vc-* commands are pretty good, vc-region-history in particular which shows the commit history of a selected region is pretty killer.

#emacs

#Emacs is probably the greatest tool there is. Unfortunately, it's so different to other tools you know that it's complex to explain without running yourself for a couple of weeks.

Just watch some random videos online to get some impression of the potential.

Other #PIM tools are like Playmobil. #Orgmode is like Lego. You'll build your digital workflows according to your requirements. It will adapt and change as your world does. You'll never lose any data because of some tool discontinuity or proprietary Markdown syntax elements.

Don't be intimidated by the Org-mode power: you should start lean and it's easy to do so: https://karl-voit.at/2020/01/20/start-using-orgmode/

Without serious trying yourself, you can't have a qualified judgement about this. I had to realize it myself as I began to understand Emacs only by retrying 10y later.

The internal documentation of #Emacs is just impressive.

In all my life, I have never seen a single other piece of software documented with such detail and quality.

Just discovered the #FOSS and #Crafts podcast by and with @cwebber and @mlemweb - strong recommend!!
Dove in @ "the deep end" with the episode on #Emacs;) and am really enjoying the format.

https://fossandcrafts.org/

As I've been learning Emacs I've been using the Emacs Reference Card provided by the FSF which is designed for printing, black text on white background. I needed it in Dark Mode for screen use. If it would be useful to anyone, you can find it at this link.

#FSF#GNU#Emacs#Linux

https://beardystarstuff.net/GNU_Emacs_Reference_Card_Dark_Mode.pdf

Happy to announce that the Org protocol page on Worg has been updated for 2025. Its last significant update was 3 years ago and much of the content on it was stale. Most of it has been refreshed, although not all due to resource availability (anybody here using recent Windows and Org protocol? Contact me.) Learn all about it at the link below.

https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-protocol.html

Thanks to Max Nikulin and Christian Moe for their feedback!

#Emacs#OrgMode

Today colleagues and I present not one but two #Guix tutorials at Compas, the French #HPC conference!

① #Guix + #Emacs#Org for #ReproducbibleResearch
https://guix-org-tutorial-compas-2025.gitlab.io/tutorial/

② Deploying #HPC code on supercomputers with #Guix
https://guix-hpc.gitlabpages.inria.fr/compas-tutorial-2025/

I was just wondering if you had anything you would like to see an early-emacs-days #writer do with #emacs in our community particularly (noting your https://sachachua.com/topic/#topic-index-emacs-and-writing ).

Sorry, gef, for volunteering you for lab experiments ;p

Honestly my goal is to see whether #eev anchors work for his flow, and whether it's-possible to use my own 'easy' graph stuff.

Back of envelope theories of complex systems, as always with my mostly relating to off-hand comments Winograd made in the first page of his Breaking The Complexity Barrier (Again) paper.

What do you think?

Main feature is bootstrapping making these graphs somewhat in terms of themselves metacircularly.

Hello, here's my fediverse re- #introduction since I moved to #fediscience

I'm a computational biologist/bioinformatician, professor at UCLouvain in Brussels. I work with various types of omics data, with a special interest in #MassSpectrometry and #proteomics. I (co-)develop and maintain several #rstats and #Bioconductor packages. In addition to R, I use #emacs and #orgmode quite a bit.

Thanks for reading!