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Sharing Emacs is Caring Emacs: Emacs education and why I embraced video
https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks/sharing - Jacob Boxerman - Track: General
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- Q: Are you using ox-reveal to make your slides? If not, what are you using? They look very elegant.
- A: Yes, and Jacob has a video about it on his channel!
- Q: Videos can be very inspirational to learn about something by watching it used. I often find I need to do some research after watching a video to learn more. Do you give people links to relevant resources etc?
- A: Definitely something that I can do more of. I like to think of my videos as jumping-points to the manual.
- Q: What are your fellow cohort of students using for their editors? What kinds of "feedback" do you get from them when they learn about you using Emacs? (Missed your talk so perhaps you answered this)
- A: Professors making entry to comp sci as "accessible/simple" as possible. In 3rd course the professor gives option of either Emacs or Vim. Professor uses vim; so the class gravitates towards that. A 4th course, in assembly, and the professor suggests Emacs. At Columbia, vim is more used (as it's modeled)
- Q: Did you start those university classes using Emacs?
- A: Yes. (Two years before entering college); taking notes in org-mode for programming classes is the BEST!!! Syntax highlighting, inline code blocks, literate-esque programming is great for school. Professors want PDFs on their desk! And org-mode simplifies this process.
- Also presenter is in humanities, and writes their humanities essays in org-mode
- Q: To Leo: Before NeoVim, you had to do as much (or more) configuration to get basic editing done than in Emacs. It's also slower with modal editing compared to Emacs keybindings because you have to press Esc and two keys to get things done while in Emacs you only have to press C/M-something (one keypress) to move or search or whatever and then write. I instantly became productive for writing when I switched to Emacs. (I have 5 times tried to adopt Vim…and each time I get a bit better. But Emacs was lightning in a bottle for "productivity"; for those where vim works, I love it. And am eccstatic that they are owning their editor)
- Q: Wha was a question you'd hoped we'd ask of you?
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