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Aaron Bieber
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Aaron Bieber writes Posts on The Chronicle, a personal blog at blog.aaronbieber.com about programming and productivity. Since 2016, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Don't Use Terminal Emacs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Aaron Bieber's Emacs posts, mainly the 'From Vim to Emacs' piece and 'Don't use terminal Emacs', as a way to evaluate switching editors. Other comments mention his notebook and Org-mode setup.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Don't Use Terminal Emacs4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-09-23
- Organizing Notes with Refile3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-05-10
- From vim to emacs in 14 days2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-07-15
- From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-16
What Hacker News says?
* I use a Leuchtturm1917 A4 square-dotted hardcover notebook for immediate notes. * Longer-term items go into Org-Mode in Spacemacs. * On-the-go to-do items go into Org-Mode as well, via the excellent Android app "Orgzly". These are shared via Dropbox with the Spacemacs instance. * Habits are also in Org-Mode, with the org-agenda habits view showing me how I'm doing on that. A habit being a repeated task, something…
Comment linking /2016/09/24/an-agenda-for-life-with-org-mode.html
on “Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?”Submitted From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015) as a story · 170 points
HN discussionI think there's a lot to learn from starting from scratch, and it's something I hope to do too. Gladly! I'll keep the list to what I've studied so far. Here goes: - If you ever want to explore, say, Doom (Spacemacs is likely too bloated for someone who gravitates to a vanilla config), chemacs[1] is a nifty, simple profile switcher - I think there's a lot of value in studying what they've done with their mnemonic key…
Comment linking /2017/03/19/organizing-notes-with-refile.html
on “Making Emacs Popular Again”Submitted Blinding My Roomba as a story · 7 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.aaronbieber.com/2016/12/29/don-t-use-terminal-e... Accepting the terminal version is accepting an inferior environment with no upside.
Comment linking /2016/12/29/don-t-use-terminal-emacs.html
on “Making Emacs Popular Again”Submitted From Vim to Emacs in Fourteen Days as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou might find this article useful: http://blog.aaronbieber.com/2015/05/24/from-vim-to-emacs-in-... Aaron gave a great talk about his switch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWD1Fpdd4Pc , which caused several people at work to move off NeoVim and give emacs a go.
Comment linking /2015/05/24/from-vim-to-emacs-in-fourteen-days.html
on ““Give me 15 minutes and I'll change your view of GDB” [video]”Submitted Don't Use Terminal Emacs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI don't know NixOS, but this blog post and lecture might help you give emacs a fair trial: http://blog.aaronbieber.com/2015/05/24/from-vim-to-emacs-in-... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWD1Fpdd4Pc One of my vim-using coworkers found it. He, along with another colleague, have since found emacs compelling enough to use as their main text editor.
Comment linking /2015/05/24/from-vim-to-emacs-in-fourteen-days.html
on “Intero for Emacs: complete interactive development program for Haskell”Submitted Organizing Notes with Refile as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYes it’s running in a terminal. GUI emacs would be nice because it can show images and rich text. People here have probably read things like this https://blog.aaronbieber.com/2016/12/29/don-t-use-terminal-e... (though the tramp criticism doesn’t apply here) It would require further compiling an X server or Wayland, the Lucid GUI toolkit, freetype and fontconfig, a bunch of image libraries and maybe more stuff I don’…
Comment linking /2016/12/29/don-t-use-terminal-emacs.html
on “Show HN: Emacs on a Kobo Clara BW ebook reader”Submitted From vim to emacs in 14 days as a story · 2 points
HN discussionReminds me of this article titled “don’t use terminal Emacs” https://blog.aaronbieber.com/2016/12/29/don-t-use-terminal-e...
Comment linking /2016/12/29/don-t-use-terminal-emacs.html
on “Use GNU Emacs”Submitted Right Tool for the Job (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Organize your notes with org-refile as a story · 1 points
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