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Those of you with terminal and plain text first workflows, how did you handle academia? I'm imagining a mix of git, pandoc, and vimwiki or org-mode.

Is there a good article on how to setup such a workflow? Any pitfalls?

#linux #freebsd #cli #terminal #vim #emacs #college #university #acadamia

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slackline :emacs: :orgmode:4d ago

@profoundlynerdy There are a few academics that I'm aware of (and no doubt more I'm not!) who use Emacs.

Off the top of my head...

@jameshowell
@rougier

EmacsConf has had various talks that are relevant

https://emacsconf.org/2025/talks/reference
https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/students
https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks/uni (from @jameshowell )
https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks/teaching
https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks/table

lots more talks of relevance too.

(I work in academia but as a research software engineer with no teaching nor paper authoring)

#emacs #academia

EmacsConf - 2025 - talks - Emacs as a fully-fledged reference manager

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James Endres Howell 3d ago

@profoundlynerdy How to set up such a workflow? I've been developing many workflows in #Emacs since the late 1980s. Take that as encouragement, not discouragement!

Any pitfalls? Some people don't share my love of Emacs, I suppose. 🤣

Thanks for the shoutout, @slackline! Besides @rougier, there's also @ericsfraga, @randyridenour, @zamansky, oh now I'm starting to feel anxious because I'm certain I am forgetting people @kjhealy sorry to the rest

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Randy Ridenour 2d ago

@jameshowell @profoundlynerdy @slackline @rougier @ericsfraga @zamansky @kjhealy It’s hard to say anything about workflow without knowing what you need to do. How big the pitfalls are kind of depends on what field you’re in. The biggest problem for me is that humanities is mostly enslaved to MS Word. Fortunately, Org converts to docx easily, so there’s no problem with initial submissions to publishers. Edits and collaboration still force me to reluctantly open Word at times.

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James Endres Howell

@randyridenour: "Edits and collaboration still force me to reluctantly open Word at times." It's like changing the cat litter

@profoundlynerdy @slackline @rougier @ericsfraga @zamansky @kjhealy