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Author: Simon Watson <simon.watson@ipc.com>
Date: Fri Sep 10 12:03:49 2021 -0400
Updates
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+#-*- mode: org -*-
#TITLE: My Emacs Workflow (and other ramblings)
+** Background/Preamble
+
In May of 2021 I started a new job. On my first day of work I imaged my workstation with Fedora; I was coming into a
sysadmin job in a primarily RHEL shop so this seemed appropriate. Upon getting my laptop I was informed that I could
not install Linux on it -- VPN access was Windows only.
@@ -13,16 +16,18 @@ about how famaliar it would feel.
Unfortunately, I ran into a number of issues as I was exploring trying to get Windows to feel more Unix-y. I won't go into
detail in this post (maybe another time), but I quickly discovered that there was a lot of muscle memory and UI workflows
-that just seemed unavailable to me in Windows.
+that just seemed unavailable to me in Windows (despite heroic community efforts to improve a lot of the Windows experience).
-Enter Emacs
+** Enter Emacs
Before starting this new job, I'd been a long time Vim user, but unrelated to this new job I'd started exploring Common Lisp
-programming, and as such had setup Emacs/SLIME. As part of that foray into Emacs/SLIME I'd discovered `eshell`, and as I was
+programming, and as such had setup Emacs/SLIME. As part of that foray into Emacs/SLIME I'd discovered =eshell=, and as I was
struggling to get Windows to conform to my preferred workflows I started to explore how I could use Emacs, elisp, and it's
packages ecosystem to make my Windows experience more Unix-y.
-Setup 1
+** Emacs Workflow 1
-Initially I t
+Initially I downloaded the Windows Emacs build and was pretty happy with the experience. I could use =eshell= to navigate
+the Windows file system in a familiar way, and had set up an Emacs .org file in my company OneDrive that I could
+easily update and track my work/notes in.