From 3010a505d5a0cbf7d05923ca11bfaac583534100 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joseph Nuthalapati Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 00:25:40 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] emacsconf 2019: Reordering and headings fixes Signed-off-by: Joseph Nuthalapati --- content/posts/emacsconf-2019.md | 27 +++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/posts/emacsconf-2019.md b/content/posts/emacsconf-2019.md index 10531af..8e10722 100644 --- a/content/posts/emacsconf-2019.md +++ b/content/posts/emacsconf-2019.md @@ -88,17 +88,7 @@ interoperate with elisp since there's too much of it to replace without decades of work (e.g. org-mode has 120k lines of elisp). The importance of concurrency and parallelism in the new language is also stressed. -### Replacing Shell Scripts? - -One of the talks was about trying to automate tasks using Elisp as a replacement -for shell scripts (Emacs as my Go To Script Language - Howard Abrams). The idea -is interesting but probably wouldn't entice a Perl hacker to try and use Elisp. -I have done this myself in the past but the speaker went a bit further in -building a framework for doing ad-hoc text processing and piping using Emacs. -The hard reality is that text processing using macros or Elisp is very slow as -compared to using a Python or Perl script. - -### Miscellaneous +## Miscellaneous Most of the talks were about how people were using Emacs in their daily life and about the cool applications they built on top of Emacs. @@ -117,9 +107,11 @@ 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 +You can also use the racket shell called Rash, which is crazy powerful. This has very good integration with StumpWM. +### Accessibility + There was a talk by Parham Doustdar, a blind developer who uses Emacs as his daily driver. There were some interesting insights on how neglecting accessibility in applications seriously impacts the productivity of @@ -127,3 +119,14 @@ vision-impaired users. Some features can be completely inaccessible. Though the W3C is doing some work to improve accessibility in browsers, most HTML is rendered by client-side JavaScript these days which makes life even more difficult for blind users. + +### Replacing Shell Scripts? + +One of the talks was about trying to automate tasks using Elisp as a replacement +for shell scripts (Emacs as my Go To Script Language - Howard Abrams). The idea +is interesting but probably wouldn't entice a Perl hacker to try and use Elisp. +I have done this myself in the past but the speaker went a bit further in +building a framework for doing ad-hoc text processing and piping using Emacs. +The hard reality is that text processing using macros or Elisp is very slow as +compared to using a Python or Perl script. + -- 2.43.0