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Author: Simon Watson <spw01@protonmail.com>
Date: Fri Sep 10 09:24:41 2021 -0400

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+#TITLE: My Emacs Workflow (and other ramblings)
+
+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.
+
+ "OK, no problem", I thought to myself. I'm not a huge Windows fan, and I hadn't interacted with it meaningfully since
+probably the early 00's, but I figured how bad could it be?
+
+As it turns out -- not too bad. I was surprised to find there was some basic native window tiling behavior in the
+window manager, and with the release of the WSL and some flashy new windows terminal apps, I was pretty excited
+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.
+
+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
+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
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