Emacspeak discussion list

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Hello!

Emacs/Emacspeak is my primary editor on Macs and Linux machines, but not currently on Windows due to the poor support.

I’ve heard lots of good things about VS Code (and was talking to someone at work about it today, lots of people on my team use it heavily) – I currently use Notepad++ as my editor on Windows (except for C#/.net development, where I use VS). It’d be so nice to have something like Emacspeak’s i-search, m-x imenu, and other conveniences! There were a few things about VS code that annoyed me the last time I tried it, but it’s been long enough ago that I now don’t remember details. I should really try it again and document them…

 

Bill

From: emacspeak-request AT emacspeak.net <emacspeak-request AT emacspeak.net> On Behalf Of Dhruv Kumar (via emacspeak Mailing List)
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2024 7:45 AM
To: emacspeak AT emacspeak.net
Subject: [Emacspeak] Introduction

 

Hi, I'm Dhruv. I was interested in using Emacs for a long time (mostly for org-mode), but didn't want to run Linux as my daily-driver, so never really bothered. I recently managed to solve that problem by running Emacs in WSL2, and writing a little speechserver/shim to output speech to nvda (not opensource for now, barely worth calling a script, want to get it more in shape before I publish).

 

I'm having fun so far. Org-mode is indeed pretty good, the "everything is text" philosophy is awesome, and I've started to play around with elisp--the entire thing feels like a playground, and it's made me more excited about computing than I have been in a while.

 

It seems like there isn't really a chatserver/something where the community gathers, which is a shame. I'd love to get in touch with people who actively use Emacs for professional math/writing/programming work. (I guess maybe just reply to this email, if you're one of them?)

 

I don't necessarily envision transitioning to Emacs for my programming needs (vscode works well enough, it's what most other people use so collaboration is much simpler, and the time tradeoff doesn't feel worth it for now) but for scheme/clojure/lisp-ish languages generally, Emacs is probably the best thing I can use. (Lisp-ish languages in vscode aren't great, and I think Emacspeak (maybe with slime?) can probably give me more semantic information.)

 

Anyhow, hi, hello. looking forward to getting to know people here, it'll likely be fun.