On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 04:10:25PM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > I've created a page to plan a jointly-held meeting and sprint at > DebCamp (or DebConf): <https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2017/Emacsen> > > I took the liberty of adding Rob and David to the list of participants, > since we've already discussed meeting up in Montreal. I hope that > others will be able to join us. Please help me develop the list of > things we could work on, or need to discuss.
I live in Montréal, and--work schedule willing--I plan to go :-)
Here's a list of stuff I'm currently working on:
I. Emacs for professional writing (removing distractions, extensions
for enhancing productivity, etc)
* Packaging stuff
* Writing an article
* Testing ergoemacs or a suitable alternative [1]
* Lowering the barrier of entry for users new to emacs
II. The status of file.org documentation (link to existing discussion
in bugs)
* Ok to install as-is?
- If so, write lintian privacy breach module for hrefs
* Install file.org to elpa dir when mode.el depends on file.org
* Generate manpages, plaintext README and upstream.changelog,
info pages, and/or html docs from file.org documentation?
- pandoc --self-contained looks promising
- licensing issues resulting from generating self-contained
docs where upstream provided file.org might not have the same
license resources downloaded to produce a --self-contained doc?
III. With the trend towards tiling WMs I wonder if an "emacs advocacy"
type article would be well received? I haven't done work on this,
only wondering and conjecture.
* Needs [1], evil, or something else (fulfils desire for alternative
shortcut schemes)
* Needs research into session management and find buffer by name
- Similarly to how in GNOME or KDE you can search for a window
by name.
* Is there a way to automatically tile emacs frames?
* Answer the question "why is it better to do this using emacs as
the session manager?"
* Are there any issues with emacs daemon/client?
IV. Improvements and auxiliary articles for:
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForDebian ?
* A central page on wiki.debian.org to links to a variety of quality
resources?
--
Years ago, I didn't think that emacs was worth the effort to learn,
but then I used an amazingly streamlined configuration on a
SPARCstation for my intro to C++. That convinced me! Also, using the
MULE and Multilingual Text Input methods was a godsend when writing
papers using Windows computers in libraries.
Even a curated list of articles would have saved *so* much time. What
would the members of pkg-emacsen like to see, speaking of
documentation?
Cheers,
Nicholas
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