{"id":8835,"date":"2020-05-01T12:26:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T16:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=8835"},"modified":"2020-05-01T12:26:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T16:26:34","slug":"comments-on-the-usefulness-of-emacs-for-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=8835","title":{"rendered":"Comments on the Usefulness of Emacs for Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Emacs subredit, gmu_nu says he\u2019s a graduate student in Physics and wonders about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/emacs\/comments\/g8mf5i\/what_do_you_find_useful_in_emacs_as_a_scientist\/\">the usefulness of Emacs for scientists who aren\u2019t in CS<\/a>. The resulting comments are an interesting compendium of the ways that scientists make use of Emacs\u2019 capabilities. Most of the replies are from mathematicians and physicists but Biology and Mechanical Engineering are also represented.<\/p>\n<p>One theme that\u2019s mentioned in many of the answers is that the usefulness of Emacs really took off for the respondent when they discovered Org mode. That\u2019s something that almost every Emacs user who doesn\u2019t restrict their Emacs use to coding has found to be true. Another often repeated theme is that Emacs is a single tool that can be used for many different jobs and that\u2019s beneficial because you have only one tool to master rather than many.<\/p>\n<p>If, like me, you enjoy reading about how others use Emacs, take a look at the answers to gmu_nu\u2019s question. I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll find them interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Emacs subredit, gmu_nu says he\u2019s a graduate student in Physics and wonders about the usefulness of Emacs for scientists who aren\u2019t in CS. The resulting comments are an interesting compendium of the ways that scientists make use &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=8835\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-8835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8835","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=8835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8836,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8835\/revisions\/8836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}