Experience Report: Steps to "Emacs Hyper Notebooks"
summary
Experience report shows a working Emacs-based notebook glue that makes REPLs long‑running inside org‑babel by adding a servant param and a lightweight override to ob-core, implemented in observant.el. Observant stores process state in a hash table, does pre/post‑processing, caching and output capture, and runs Maxima and Julia together (Maxima now keeps a session and returns TeX). Emacs Jupyter falls short, real‑time coediting and org‑roam/logseq integration succeed, code is early‑stage but available online.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and motivation
- 1:03Emacs Org features overview
- 2:06Maxima workflow workaround
- 3:12Caching and long-running processes
- 3:54Introducing observant facility
- 6:19Experience and challenges
- 7:21Browser and community feedback
- 7:45Future work and Arxana
- 8:48Conclusions and reproducibility
- 9:52Q&A session
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