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Talks about Org-mode, by Carsten Dominik (orgmode.org)
18 points by KC8ZKF on Aug 19, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 11 comments



Wait, the man who gives the introduction is blind and an emacs user?

I've wondered that if I were to go blind, "how would I program?" and "what technology is available?"

Who is this man and what is his setup?

UPDATE:

His name is T.V. Raman and apparently he uses something called Emacspeak.

http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/raman/ http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/emacspeak.html

Anyone else have more info?


He works at Google; his PhD thesis was on "Audio system for technical readings" which won the ACM Best Doctoral Dissertation award in 1994. (EDIT: He was one of the winners---David Karger was the other one.)

http://awards.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=4110221&srt=all...


Apparently he created Emacspeak.


Right, which begs the question. How did he create it in the first place?


Also, a lot of early blind computer users liked ed(1) and other console-based editors.

One even wrote a browser (with JavaScript support!) with an ed-like interface: http://edbrowse.sourceforge.net/


With a damned good memory.


Great to hear something about Org-mode. Development seems to have stalled for a while. I am desperately waiting for an iPad-compatible version of the companion mobile app. Org-mode is such a great tool, that I am not willing to switch to another solution, just because of the lack of an iPad app.


Org-mode is great. I'm using it now to organize an intro to CS class at my university. I write the lecture notes, pass exercises, give grades, etc.

There are so many things org mode can do I'm still frequently surprised at how useful it is, even after using it regularly for 3 years.


Org-mode is awesome, admittedly, it takes (just like anything Emacs related) a lot of up-front configuration and tweaking efforts but is well worth it.


Actually, as far as emacs things goes, org mode is one of the few that works out of the box. My 500-line .emacs has no configurations in it whatsoever for org mode.


True, it does work out of the box, but my workflow requires a lot of customizations - my org-mode customizations line count comes in a 162 lines...

My .emacs got so big I had to split it up into init files:

   - programming mode customizations
   - productivity mode customizations
   - appearance customizations
   - behavioral customizations
   - keymapping customizations
   - gnus customizations (too big for productivity init)
   - standard requires that I use too often to autoload
   - templating and yasnippet routines




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