Emacs For Writers

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a favorite talk showing Emacs as a writing environment rather than just a programmer's editor.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

thoughtbot

Topic

emacs for writing

Format

talk

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• My favourite talk on this topic is "Emacs for writers": [VIDEO] If you are working with plain text, use something that excels at working with text. I saw another of his talks, and how he works in Emacs is amazing.

• There is always Emacs. I love this talk by Joe Dixit about how he came from things like scrivener to Emacs [VIDEO]

• I'm not sure if I would define it as a "talk" (and the details are more meaningful if you know how to use Emacs), but Jay Dixit explains how he uses Emacs for writing instead of programming: [VIDEO]