UPDATE 2014-01-27: Transcript posted! UPDATE: Want just the audio? MP3 / OGG 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 […]

UPDATE 2014-01-27: Transcript posted!

UPDATE: Want just the audio? MP3 / OGG


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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