Emacs Chat: Magnar Sveen (Emacs Rocks)

Posted on November 25th, 2013 by Sacha Chua
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UPDATE 2014-01-27: Transcript posted!
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Here are the notes from my chat with Magnar Sveen, the creator of the Emacs Rocks screencast series and a number of other great Emacs resources. Enjoy!

0m48s	Magnar has been using Emacs for two years
2m30s	Moving from TextMate
3m45s	World of Warcraft
4m10s	Friend’s influence
5m10s	Learning as a game
6m10s	Other ways of learning – time outside work
7m44s	Screencasting
9m30s	Things Magnar wants to learn more about – Org
10m19s	What else Magnar does with Emacs
11m17s	Norwegian text adventure game
12m08s	Outside Emacs: family, board games (120!)
13m41s	Managing a large hobby project
14m30s	Learning through projects
14m48s	Dealing with feeling overwhelmed by Emacs
16m38s	Hardware
20m20s	Emacs configuration
20m40s	Projects with perspective-mode
21m32s	Find file in project, ido-vertical-mode, flx-ido
23m45s	Switching between projects
25m01s	Guide-key
25m56	Rebinding C-h
26m36	paredit and smartparens
29m20s	visual-regexp
30m35s	annoying-arrows-mode
32m45s	project-archetype
35m15s	Wishlist: package management
35m55s	Satisfied with configuration
35m25s	Marks and regions
37m20s	Configuration is on github
37m40s	evil-mode
40m00s	Feedback on Emacs Rocks
42m00s	Growing to appreciate Emacs because of extensibility
43m15s	The giraffe book
44m57s	Getting code into core
49m39	Emacs koans?
51m45s	IRC bot
52m50s	Learning from other people in the office
54m40s	Other questions
56m23s	Board game recommendations

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