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Emacs For Writers

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Testing, debugging & developer toolsProductivity & self-improvementLiterature & writing craft

What it is

Science writer Jay Dixit explains how he uses Emacs as a non-programmer to write, edit and research more productively. He shows his plain-text writing workflow and what led him from tools like Scrivener to Emacs.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as a favorite talk showing Emacs as a writing environment rather than just a programmer's editor.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “My favourite talk on this topic is "Emacs for writers”

    Amazing Emacs workflow for working with plain text

    bjoli, 2021-01 · Strong recommendation · in “NovelWriter 1.0 – A markdown-like editor for writing novels”

  2. “Jay Dixit explains how he uses Emacs for writing instead of programming”

    Writer uses Emacs for writing instead of programming

    cdubose, 2016-01 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Best (Tech) talks from 2015”

  3. “I really like how he has no idea how to pronounce stuff, but he still managed to bend emacs after his will.”

    Writer bends Emacs to his will despite mispronunciations

    Johnny_Brahms, 2016-08 · Recommendation · in “How I wrote and published my novel using only open source tools”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: emacs, writing workflow, plain text, org mode, productivity

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