{"id":11169,"date":"2023-02-23T14:24:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T19:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=11169"},"modified":"2023-02-26T11:01:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T16:01:25","slug":"leaving-deft-for-vanilla-emacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=11169","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Deft for Vanilla Emacs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title almost doesn\u2019t make sense. After all, if you\u2019re using Deft, you\u2019re <i>ipso facto<\/i> using Emacs. James Dyer explains it in a way that makes sense. The TL;DR is that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emacs.dyerdwelling.family\/emacs\/20230204140603-emacs--moving-away-from-deft\/\">although he has been using Deft, he\u2019s decided to use Org mode instead<\/a>. He lists several reasons for this, which you can see in his post. The thrust of his post is that there\u2019s nothing wrong with Deft but Org mode and the other built-in Emacs capabilities are a better fit for his workflow.<\/p>\n<p>The reason I\u2019m writing about this is Dyer\u2019s last sentence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cI think this is an example of over time learning that emacs has a lot of what you want already built in and with org mode it gently nudges you to organise files in a more coherent manner leading to a more simple agnostic digital way of life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is, I think, a great point. Emacs has a multitude of packages that provide a huge amount of useful functionality but many times, everything you need is already there.The great thing is, when you need more, there\u2019s almost certainly a package to give it to you. As always, Emacs has your back.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE<\/b> <span class=\"timestamp-wrapper\"><span class=\"timestamp\">[2023-02-26 Sun]<\/span><\/span>: Added link to Dyer\u2019s post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title almost doesn\u2019t make sense. After all, if you\u2019re using Deft, you\u2019re ipso facto using Emacs. James Dyer explains it in a way that makes sense. The TL;DR is that although he has been using Deft, he\u2019s decided to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=11169\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,4],"class_list":["post-11169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs","tag-org-mode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11175,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11169\/revisions\/11175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}