X-Git-Url: http://njoseph.me/gitweb/blog.git/blobdiff_plain/c0422b41368cdba809dd3c0ea11a1d20c9d7f77c..a37c7a265ea1e753c979576095d57b9933dd1470:/content/posts/emacsconf-2019.md diff --git a/content/posts/emacsconf-2019.md b/content/posts/emacsconf-2019.md index 34b7d7c..2813bb6 100644 --- a/content/posts/emacsconf-2019.md +++ b/content/posts/emacsconf-2019.md @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ type: "post" highlight: false --- -![EmacsConf logo](https://emacsconf.org/s/emacsconf-logo1-256.png) +![EmacsConf logo](/blog/emacsconf-logo.png) I attended the [EmacsConf 2019](https://emacsconf.org/2019/ "EmacsConf 2019") on 2nd November. It was offered as a video stream that anyone can watch over the @@ -107,8 +107,12 @@ people presenting it within Emacs and others using exported PDFs. Just like the Quake-inspired terminals Guake and Yakuake, there's one called [Equake](https://gitlab.com/emacsomancer/equake) that launches a drop-down eshell. -You can also use the racket shell called Rash, which is crazy powerful. This has -very good integration with StumpWM. +You can also use the Racket shell called Rash, which is crazy powerful. Equake has +good integration with StumpWM. + +I was aware of the existence of Yasnippet, but never really used it much. I am +more motivated to use this important productivity tool after watching the talk +"Don’t wait! Write your own (yas)snippet" by Tony Aldon. ### Accessibility @@ -145,6 +149,14 @@ The conference had an excellent live-coding demonstration of LSP by Torstein Krause Johansen in his presentation titled "How Emacs became my awesome Java editing environment". +### Evil mode + +I was kinda disappointed that only one user used EViL mode. I expected that +there were at least one talk on Evil mode itself. There was one talk by Zaiste +about Doom Emacs but the title was too click-baity and showed no code. Maybe I +should do a talk focussed on evil-mode in the next EmacsConf. + + ## Diversity The conference seemed to have a good racial mix of speakers. There was a blind