{"id":9002,"date":"2020-07-12T11:57:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T15:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9002"},"modified":"2020-07-12T11:57:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T15:57:06","slug":"magit-the-emacs-killer-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9002","title":{"rendered":"Magit: The Emacs Killer App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCVls1GmFKf6WlTraIb_IaJg\">DistroTube<\/a>, Derek Taylor has posted a video that makes the case that for many people, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X_iX5US1_xE\">Magit is the killer app for Emacs<\/a>. He thinks that\u2019s especially true if you\u2019re primarily a developer.<\/p>\n<p>I use Magit everyday all day but for me <i>the<\/i> killer app is Org-mode. Taylor notes that Org-mode is the killer app for many people so we\u2019re not really in disagreement. It depends on your workflow and what you\u2019re doing with Emacs.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the video is a short demonstration of Magit so if you\u2019re wondering what all the excitement is about, this video is a good way to get an idea. The video is 9 minutes, 40 seconds long so it should be easy to fit it in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at DistroTube, Derek Taylor has posted a video that makes the case that for many people, Magit is the killer app for Emacs. He thinks that\u2019s especially true if you\u2019re primarily a developer. I use Magit everyday all day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9002\">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":[5],"tags":[18,4],"class_list":["post-9002","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\/9002","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=9002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9003,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9002\/revisions\/9003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}