Social media for people who have a favourite text editor.
it’s neovim and anyone who disagrees is wrong
I think your keyboard got messed up because you really misspelled Emacs.
Probably fucked it up trying to use all the keyboard combinations.
Joking! I like emacs better than vim for coding, but does anyone have any good text editors for essay writing? I work in academia and need something like a word processor, not a text editor (I work in philosophy and latex isn’t great for this. Maybe in a maths setting, but not for philosophy and not for me). So far onlyoffice is the best I’ve found, but I’d like something that fits in with my hyprland setup nicely, and only office doesn’t.
Depends on what you’re looking for. If you’re deadset on wysiwyg editors, then yeah, onlyoffice is as good as it gets if you want to keep it foss and don’t like libreoffice. Otherwise people seem to like the many scientific markdown editors. But honestly if you already know emacs then just… emacs. I’m in academia too and with the right set of packages it can fit an academic workflow pretty nicely. I write in org mode with org-superstar, olivetti mode to center text in org, varying fonts and font size for headers, citar for references (that syncs with a realtime bibtex export from my zotero library). With the added bonus of having all the usual goodness (magit, projectile, you name it).
I’ll have to take a look at these packages and see if I can make it work for me. How do you handle exporting to PDF or other workable formats (e.g. Word) for use by other faculty or students? Further, how does your formatting within emacs hold up for publishers? Thanks for the response here, it is the most helpful.
For pdf export, you can just org-export-to-pdf. In the background it translates your doc to a latex file and then compiles that (I know you stated you didn’t lile tex, but in case you can bear a few command this is actually super useful as it gives you more control over the doc, you can just insert random latex part in your doc and it will handle them nicely). Same for publishers. You can just translate your file to tex and that will fit most of the publication processes. Otherwise you can just convert your doc to pretty much anything with pandoc (including .docx).
Keep in mind however that this is basically just saying: I like the idea of latex (fine granularity at compile time, raw text and reproducibility) but I prefer org markup for common marks like headers, bold and refs, and I like having a somewhat pretty editor. If your issue with latex is that writting and formating are not synchronous, than yeah this is not for you.
This might work for me. I’ll take a look at everything you’ve laid out when I have some down time. Thank you.
libreoffice?
You’re both wrong it’s helix (in b4 someone mentions Sam)
People use ed because they want an editor. They don’t want an emacsitor or vimitor. Those aren’t even words.
Is that like word or notepad?
-person for whom the email metaphor has never worked
I mean, notepad does count.
Honestly, I thought I was further off. If they’re all plain text, is there no difference?
I’m sure someone with a favorite text editor could tell you, I’m not a programmer and I just use Notepad, heh.
So… your favorite editor is Notepad? /j
Many text editors offer (advanced) features to faster edit text. A classic example is vim, which has a mode in which you navigate a document very fast with your keyboard, meaning no mouse or arrow key spam.
It also allows you to edit multiple things at once, search for stuff in different ways, and also install plugins. Those can be very useful, like continuously checking if you messed up your program.
Notepad, Word is a word processor.
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Never has it been described so well.
Sublime btw.
Idk how to program I just like the scroll bar.
Pico
Mine is Neovim but Kate is fine too
“Works like email. Like how nobody owns email.”
“doesn’t google own gmail?”
“FFS, I said E-mail not G-mail, and no, they are not the same thing, all Gmail is Email, but not all Email is Gmail”
“What about Hotmail?” “Hotmail is NOT (e) mail!”
“Is Hotmail faster than E-Mail?”
Except it’s nothing like email.
They don’t care.
Meh I mean I’m a sense they you’re passing messages between different servers on different domains using similar protocols, with similar account notation, yeah. It works as a high level intro.
It is in how it functionally operates.
Not in the sense of the user experience, but in how it actually works.
People get their email from different places (gmail, yahoo, hotmail, outlook.com, their work, whatever) and they all use the same format and protocol and send email from one site to another over the great big internet and no matter where you get your email from it will work with everyone else.
Now, Usenet is honestly a much better analogy, but nobody knows what that is anymore.
The user experience is what you’re typically explaining to someone though, most people don’t care about the backend.
One word “email”
But I don’t see many people talking about mail services defederating from each other
Actually it does all the time. People running their own email servers would block whole domains because they were spam.
That’s a completely different beast, on a personal level people can do whatever they want I can even block domains on my mail rule. The point is using a third party service and not being able to communicate with someone else because admins/owner said so
So I set up an email server for my friends or my hobby train club and decide to ban another email server. Everyone in my club is now screwed. It actually fits better than I originally thought.
Blocking spam by sending server is basically defederation.
But you can go to your spam box and mark it as non spam(I think)
Kinda defeats the purpose of email lol.
Yeah, but that what’s happening with lemmy for example
I mean i dont think it should be but what can i do about that?
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Nothing, but if you describe it like an email then most people wouldn’t understand why their world account does not work on haxbear
Except using a federated service is nothing like sending an email.
It’s not that complicated, if you know the person you are trying to teach you could just appropriate a short analogy.
For example if I was talking to a CSGO player I would just tell them Reddit, Twitter, etc are just plain AK47s while the fediverse is a M4A4 that you get to choose a skin for (the site that you sign up to access the fediverse).
Hi. I know about food, dancing, grammar, cats, civil lawsuits in the US, nail polish, and biology. Can you help me?
Imagine if there’s a club where people dance. It’s great fun, but the club is owned by a single person. That person has the final say in all decisions: what dances are allowed, which clothes are acceptable to wear, which food you can bring, etc.
This is often good: it is an easy way to avoid people bringing stinky food to the club, ruining the experience for many others, or people dancing in a way which might make others uncomfortable.
However, that person (and the person helping them, either employees or moderators) is in turn also able to make decisions which aren’t very popular, like suddenly requiring an ID check to get into the club.
Some people who wanted their dancing not be directed by person disconnected from their life then went ahead and made their own club. But the question was: how can they avoid that they become like the jackass who wants to dictate how people dance?
The answer: federation. People can use their membership in those new clubs at other federated clubs, enabling them to freely check out other clubs without any hassle.
The customization and community aspect is a nice side-effect: there are now clubs focused on e.g. classic dances, who might go for a more classical design of their dance halls or have a certain dress code.Beautiful, thank you!
How do you change instance dont you still have to register a new account on that instance?
I can still follow/comment/interact with communities on Lemmy.world or lemm.we or any other federated instances from my blahaj.zone account is what I mean.
On most fediverse platforms, you can migrate an account from one instance to another no issue.
[Reddit, Twitter, etc.] => [Fediverse]
Plain food => food but you get to choose (which) spice(s)
Plain dancing => dancing but you can choose which clothes to wear while dancing
Plain grammar => talking but you can choose a dialect and or accent
Plain cat => you can choose which cat you like from an animal shelter
Though they all fundamentally revolve around platforms that enable sharing content, the main difference usually is, at least to me personally, the interface through which you access the content.
Can’t think of (good) analogies for lawsuits, sadly don’t know enough about nail polish, and it’s too late into the night for me to think about biology.
It’s also too late for me to see if what I said made sense or is plain bullshit
I’m sorry, I don’t know if that necessarily helped, but I definitely know they’re customizable now! Thank you!
It’s kinda ridiculous that you describe the non-federated websites as plain even though it’s the fediverse that has a problem with too little content. lol
I need timestamps that show these being 1 minute apart because they’ve got that recording at the ready
I’d explain it like “Imagine you could see Facebook posts on Twitter and the other way round.”
Provided I’m understanding the Fediverse right.
My explanation is always that it’s like email. Everyone’s familiar with email to some extent. You can send an email to anyone from an address anywhere. All they need to do is implement the same protocal.
Actually not a bad intro
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