Deep Emacs Integration: Building a Personal Computing Environment
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Summary
The article details the author's deep integration of Emacs as their primary computing environment, describing how they use it for nearly all daily tasks except heavy media work. They discuss using Hyprland as their window manager and their preference for it over other desktop environments like GNOME. The piece focuses on workflow optimization, personal computing philosophy, and the pursuit of seamless thought-to-action execution within Emacs buffers.
Key quotes
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My efforts have been focused on building emacs into the workflow of essentially everything I do, as long as it doesn't involve heavy video or media, I try my very best to accomplish it in emacs.
The idea is to achieve deep integration with everything I do on a computer, to the degree my thoughts are immediately able to be acted upon in the buffer.
I use hyprland as my window manager, and while I have heard of other managers/DEs (I was using GNOME for the better part of 6 months), I keep coming back to hyprland just because it wor
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