Notes from Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, March 2021

These are the notes from Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) meetup happened on March 27, 2021.

• R studio / R with Emacs, reproducible research

  • https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/open_research_emacs_orgmode/
  • https://m-x-research.github.io/

• Literate configuration / Org babel blocks

  • https://jherrlin.github.io/posts/emacs-orgmode-source-code-blocks/
  • https://zzamboni.org/post/my-doom-emacs-configuration-with-commentary/
  • http://howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/literate-devops.html

• SQL babel blocks (single session for all blocks)

  • https://www.orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-sql.html
  • https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SqlMode
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGnt_PWoM5Y

• Doom Emacs on Windows

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/m7pe6c/wsl2emacsvcxsrv_open_everything_with_native/
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qDoHd-6NOQ

• Personal wiki based on Org

  • Org Rome, Org Deft
  • Using grep, ag, silversearcher.
  • [yantar92] using # appended words as keywords, use org-ql, and then Helm to perform actions on those Org entries.

• Committing the Org files to source control

  • Using Org habit to review and commit them daily.
  • [yantar92] auto commit function to be ran in git status buffer: https://github.com/yantar92/emacs-config/blob/master/config.org#auto-commit-trivial-changes-in-org-files

• Artist mode

  • http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/
  • http://www.graphviz.org/
  • https://correl.phoenixinquis.net/2015/07/12/git-graphs.html

• Org habits / clocking / time graphs

  • https://github.com/rksm/clj-org-analyzer
  • https://samplesize.one/blog/posts/my_year_in_data/
  • https://activitywatch.net/

• Logging state changes, notes etc

  (setq org-log-state-notes-insert-after-drawers t)
  

• Navigating to buffers, window configurations

  • https://github.com/pashinin/workgroups2

  • https://github.com/Bad-ptr/persp-mode.el

  • https://github.com/alphapapa/burly.el

  • Helm mini: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/wiki

  • Using tabs as workspaces.

  • [EvilRocks]

    ;; Show projectile files in helm mini
    (setq helm-mini-default-sources
          '(helm-source-buffers-list
        helm-source-projectile-dired-files-list
        helm-source-projectile-files-list
        helm-source-recentf
        helm-source-buffer-not-found))
    

• Configuration

  • https://github.com/seshaljain/.emacs.d
  • https://github.com/seshaljain/.doom.d

Credits: A, archgaelix, bhavin192, EvilRocks, mbuf, meain, yantar92.