Talk with Joshua Blais (Emacs enthusiast) | Emacs Org mode basics part 1

Contents

Table of contents

• YouTube video
• Pre-requisites
• Keymaps and commands executed in the video
• Video timeline
• Other videos mentioned
• You’re a fraud, why do you ask for money, isn’t YouTube Ads enough?

YouTube video

Pre-requisites

• If you don’t know how to install Emacs, we go over that in the previous video, which can be found here:
  • Installing and testing out Emacs for the first time, as a Neovim user With Joshua Blais

Keymaps and commands executed in the video

• Create alias

M_APPNAME=neobean nvimsalias emacs='~/.config/emacs/bin/doom run'

• space . file explorer
• enter to mark todo as done
• ctrl+enter create bulletpoint below
• leader+f+F to find files
• space+tab+d kill a tab
• ctrl+c ctrl+s calendar
• ctrl+c [ add file to org agenda
• ctrl+c ] delta file form org agenda
• ctrl+hjkl to move between dates in calendar
• cmd+x - find keymaps (in case you forget the keymap to open the calendar). Find every Emacs related command, function, everything.

Video timeline

• All of these topics are discussed in the video

00:00:00 - goal of this video
00:01:22 - josh giving up on emacs
00:02:20 - josh enters a forbidden affair
00:05:25 - previous video to meet josh
00:07:20 - org overview in josh screen
00:08:10 - literate emacs config
00:10:25 - josh screen headings, todo
00:12:48 - linkarzu headings neovim
00:14:22 - todo in org heading
00:15:53 - donate in kofi so I can pay josh
00:17:05 - org schedule tasks
00:18:53 - send meeting invite throug emacs
00:22:20 - context switching
00:25:35 - export from org to markdown
00:25:51 - markdown preview emacs
00:28:09 - create emacs alias
00:28:30 - emacs in x11 instead of wayland
00:30:15 - create blogpost with commands
00:30:34 - number layer on keyboard
00:32:22 - emacs daemon
00:35:00 - emacs starts in the dir you are in
00:35:35 - create dir and file
00:36:31 - file title
00:37:00 - linkarzu create headings and todo
00:38:20 - emacs tags
00:41:00 - add bulletpoints tasks
00:42:36 - open 2 emacs instances
00:43:35 - look for file
00:46:50 - create task or checkbox
00:49:08 - todo works only with headings
00:52:11 - change indentation
00:52:54 - open and close tab
00:56:45 - shift+tab fold entire file
00:56:53 - neovim folds similar to org
00:58:43 - schedule event
00:59:47 - homerow mods
01:00:00 - colemak layout
01:03:00 - select day in calendar
01:04:30 - add to org agenda
01:06:50 - meta+x cmd+x
01:08:48 - open calendar (another day)
01:10:00 - use josh emacs config dotfiles
01:14:34 - josh youtube channel

Other videos mentioned

You’re a fraud, why do you ask for money, isn’t YouTube Ads enough?

• I explain all of this in the “about me page” link below:
  • youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough
  • Above you’ll also find links to my discord, social media, etc