{"id":9363,"date":"2020-12-22T13:41:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T18:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9363"},"modified":"2020-12-22T13:41:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T18:41:16","slug":"mastering-emacs-is-a-slow-but-enjoyable-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9363","title":{"rendered":"Mastering Emacs is a Slow But Enjoyable Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"https:\/\/ag91.github.io\">Where parallels cross<\/a>, Andrea has an interesting post that recounts his <a href=\"https:\/\/ag91.github.io\/blog\/2020\/12\/22\/mastering-emacs-is-a-slow-process-an-archeological-tour-of-my-(archived)-beginnings\/\">slow but enjoyable journey to Emacs mastery<\/a>. Like many Emacsers, the journey began with his PhD studies. Since then he has learned more Emacs and integrated it into his life.<\/p>\n<p>Andrea was able to reconstruct his journey because he archived all his Org TODO files in which he kept a day-to-day task list. His archives detail the troubles he had installing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.djcbsoftware.nl\/code\/mu\/mu4e.html\">mu4e<\/a> when Mozilla stopped supporting Thunderbird as well as other significant Emacs milestones.<\/p>\n<p>Andrea makes a telling point about learning Emacs: it\u2019s often depicted as a long and arduous slog not for any but the most strong. Andrea says, however, that while the journey will be long, there\u2019s no hurry and the trip can be an enjoyable one. I\u2019ve certainly found that to be the case. After almost a decade and a half, my journey is far from complete but I\u2019ve had fun learning new things about Emacs and adopting new packages and processes into my workflow as my needs evolved.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a nice post and worth a read if, like me, you enjoy personal Emacs stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Where parallels cross, Andrea has an interesting post that recounts his slow but enjoyable journey to Emacs mastery. Like many Emacsers, the journey began with his PhD studies. Since then he has learned more Emacs and integrated it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9363\">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-9363","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\/9363","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=9363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9364,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363\/revisions\/9364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}