| 1 Jan 2019 |
| 21:40:30 |  Jigme Datse (they/them) | But it's not really a writing thing. |
| 2 Jan 2019 |
| 12:01:32 |  Phil "Big Boss" Daniels | Emacs is the superior editor. |
| 12:01:42 | Phil "Big Boss" Daniels | I'll fight to the death about it. |
| 12:01:43 | Phil "Big Boss" Daniels | lol |
| 19:24:03 |  JigmeDatse (OPP) | I never got the hang of emacs, so I prefer vim. |
| 20:18:46 |  Dezponia | I use NeoVIM but yeah, sort of just became the default for me |
| 20:20:36 | Dezponia | Its very noticable however that the defualt layout of Emacs and VIM assume an english ANSI keyboard, or sometimes old obscure keyboards like the Symbolics keyboard :P |
| 20:21:50 | Dezponia | Speaking of which I'm debating wether to get the black or white ErgoDox Ez Glow for my next keyboard. Already have the white shine version, but this way I can get one for work and one for home :P |
| 21:19:04 | Dezponia | When spending most of the day at the keyboard one way or the other its probably good to have both a good software tool and a good hardware tool |
| 12 Jan 2019 |
| 19:22:25 | | Phil "Big Boss" Daniels changed their display name from surgo to Big Boss. |
| 19:26:41 | | Phil "Big Boss" Daniels changed their display name from Big Boss to Phil "Big Boss" Daniels. |
| 19:49:18 | Jigme Datse (they/them) | And don't forget about good desk ergonomics... |
| 13 Jan 2019 |
| 08:34:49 | Dezponia | Redacted or Malformed Event |
| 08:35:24 | Dezponia | Absolutely true, got to get the height and such right as well to spare the shoulders a lot of unnecessary work |
| 08:37:30 | Dezponia | Not sure if this is a new feature of the updated firmware or something but it seems the Ergodox now has support for "Auto-shift" when typing.Basically meaning that it automatically capitalizes letters if you hold the letter down more than x amount of time. Might want to experiment with that to avoid having to use shfit as much |
| 16 Feb 2019 |
| 10:35:27 | |  mara joined the room. |
| 19 Feb 2019 |
| 21:41:23 | Dezponia | Yet another free (as in freedom) software program to help with writing, including distraction free mode etc :) https://www.writemonkey.com/ |
| 21:41:58 | Dezponia | Looks promising. Very simple yet powerful. And distraction free modes are always a favourite of mine. Every program for writing should have it |
| 21:59:53 | Phil "Big Boss" Daniels | Why not just use Emacs? |
| 22:00:01 | Phil "Big Boss" Daniels | It's literally the end all be all of writing. |
| 22:08:31 | Dezponia | Depends on what you're writing I guess. If all you want is to stream text down on a page then sure I guess? I personally (certainyl when writing fiction) very much desire a program to help me keep track of all the locations, character traits, narative strands etc |
| 22:08:48 | Phil "Big Boss" Daniels | Yep, Emacs does all that. |
| 22:09:03 | Phil "Big Boss" Daniels | I write everything (notes, journals, copy, research) in org-mode. |
| 22:09:20 | Phil "Big Boss" Daniels | Usually I have like 3-4 files open at once, so I can move things between them super-easily. |
| 22:09:55 | Dezponia | Ok, does it do it in a easily accesible way that i can give to my mom? I get that its super ultra powerful what with the joke always being "Emacs is a great OS, all it lacks is a good text editor" but its not for everyone :) |
| 22:10:25 | Phil "Big Boss" Daniels | Absolutely. It has some unusual keybindings, but it works excellent out of the box too. |
| 22:11:03 | Dezponia | I think I'll stick to GUI apps but to each their own :) Current favourite is still Manuskript :) |
| 22:11:28 | Phil "Big Boss" Daniels | That's fair, I guess. I don't run emacs from terminal either :P |
| 21 Feb 2019 |
| 14:57:55 | | mara changed their profile picture. |
| 4 Mar 2019 |
| 18:53:38 | | Jigme Datse (they/them) changed their display name from JigmeDatse to Jigme Datse (they/them). |
