Denver Emacs Meetup - Presentation Ideas
Table of Contents
- Presentation ideas
- Introduction to Emacs
- Org-mode
[0/2] - How to deal with Graphics
- EWW :: surfing the web from Emacs
- Emacs for things you may not expect (email, IRC, twitter, stack overflow)
- Meta Emacs stuff
- Emacs as a server, emacsclient and scripting Emacs
- Shells in Emacs
- TRAMP :: Accessing remote content with Emacs
- Emacs macros
- Interacting with SQL servers
- Window management in Emacs
- Small packages (your favorite package!)
- Language-specific configurations
- Presentations that have been given
- DONE Introduction to Org-mode
- DONE Literate programming with Org-babel
- DONE Magit :: git within Emacs
- DONE Dired :: a file browser in Emacs
- DONE Eshell :: A shell written in elisp
- DONE Project management with Projectile
- DONE Helm for incremental completion
- DONE An elisp introduction
- DONE REST client integration
Presentation ideas
The following are presentation ideas for future meetups. Any headline with the "DONE" keyword means that it has been presented before. This is intended to be a list of ideas, not an explanation for each idea.
Not mentioned are specific programming language environments, but basically we could include a "How I develop $X in Emacs" for every language if it is sufficiently interesting.
Introduction to Emacs
- Basic introduction to what Emacs is
- How to obtain Emacs
- Running Emacs
- Where to go to customize
- Basic navigation
- Window and frame management
Org-mode [0/2]
A doozy, there are so many parts of org-mode that there's no way to present them all in a single meetup.
TODO Giving presentations within Org-mode
Maybe with org-beamer and org-reveal?
TODO Integrating org-mode/Emacs with other tools
- org-jira
- owncloud?
- phone sync
How to deal with Graphics
- DocView
- pdftools
- ImageMagick within Emacs
EWW :: surfing the web from Emacs
Emacs 24.5 included a new web browser written entirely in elisp - eww. Let's show it off and see what you can do with it!
Emacs for things you may not expect (email, IRC, twitter, stack overflow)
- mu and mu4e
- twittering-mode
- ERC, rcirc, and circe
- sx.el (stack overflow)
- jabber.el
- music (spotify, pandora, the other one)
Meta Emacs stuff
Blogs?
Emacs as a server, emacsclient and scripting Emacs
Invoking elisp from the command line. Avoiding the overhead of starting Emacs
with emacsclient and such.
Shells in Emacs
There are various ways to run shells in Emacs, shell, ansi-term, eshell.
- How do you run things in these shells?
- Why would you want to?
TRAMP :: Accessing remote content with Emacs
TRAMP is awesome. We can show:
- Editing a file on a remote machine
- Publishing a file to a remote location with org-mode
- Editing a file with the
/sudoTRAMP protocol - Accessing an android phone's data with the ADB protocol
- Debugging problems with TRAMP
Emacs macros
Macros are very useful.
Interacting with SQL servers
sql-mode to have a SQL "REPL"
Window management in Emacs
- winner-mode
- eyebrowse
Small packages (your favorite package!)
- hideshow (Mike)
- expand region (Mike)
- yasnippet
- use-package
- git-gutter
- alert
- butler
Language-specific configurations
- Swift (Kendall)
- Javascript
- Grails/Groovy
- Java
- Clojure
Presentations that have been given
DONE Introduction to Org-mode
- A basic introduction
- headlines
- levels
- TODO states
- tags
- exporting
- org-publishing
- org-clock for time tracking
- the agenda
- org-capture and capture templates
DONE Literate programming with Org-babel
Embedding code inside of org-mode
- Editing embedded code in its proper mode
- Tangling code into separate files
- Re-using snippets using noweb
DONE Magit :: git within Emacs
Magit - it makes git easy and fun! Complex enough you could spend an entire meetup discussing it. We could also discuss other git-related tools like git-timemachine, git-gutter, etc.
DONE Dired :: a file browser in Emacs
There is so many neat things dired can do
- file browsing
- writable dired
- moving, copying, and deleting files
- previewing files
DONE Eshell :: A shell written in elisp
Explain all about why eshell is pretty great, how it is different than a usual shell, pros/cons and what you can do with it that you can't do with other shells.
DONE Project management with Projectile
Great tool for project management. Let's discuss some of its features.
DONE Helm for incremental completion
There's already a good guide for this, but maybe make it a little more interactive? Show some of the crazy things that Helm can do like opening files with external program, marking and searching, buffer management, and so on.
DONE An elisp introduction
Elisp is a lisp-2.
Mode hooks to have per-buffer or per-mode settings
How to unit test elisp (ert)
DONE REST client integration
- and in org-mode!