An Emacs Developer Story: From User to Package Maintainer
summary
Eight years using Emacs, seven years just customizing, and this year taking over maintenance of org-roam; a concrete patch adds grouped categories to Org agenda after two to three weeks of focused Elisp work and it runs. Practical tooling advice: read the built‑in Elisp manual, use edebug to step through code, follow alphapapa’s package guide, and pick small projects. Mentions finding beacon-mode recently and stresses starting with one afternoon of the manual rather than grand plans.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 1:49From English major to Emacs user
- 5:20Discovering Org Mode
- 8:52First contribution to Org Mode
- 11:35Advice for new contributors
- 14:25Q&A on privilege and learning Elisp
- 16:32Q&A on packaging guides and resources
- 18:40Q&A on Emacs freedom and philosophy
- 20:26Q&A on suit and recent tools
- 21:07Q&A on latest Emacs discoveries
- 22:10Closing remarks and thanks
