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#+TITLE : Static blog with org-mode
#+AUTHOR : Yann Esposito
#+EMAIL : yann.esposito@gmail.com
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#+DATE : 2019-07-04
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#+KEYWORDS : programming, blog, org-mode
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This is the first article using my new blog system.
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Once in a while, I create a new personal website.
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A long time ago, I used PHP for my first website.
I used include and took care of XHTML pages validation.
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Then I used [[http://nanoc.ws ][nanoc ]], a ruby static website generator.
Then I switched to [[https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/ ][hakyll ]] because I wanted to switch to a Haskell's written
tool.
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Now I'll try to use [[http://orgmode.org ][org-mode ]] directly with [[https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-publish-html-tutorial.html ][org-publish ]].
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* Why?
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Everything started when I was hired in a place where I was given a terrible
keyboard.
After a few weeks I started to feel a lot of pain in both my wrists.
So I started to go from classical IDE to being able to use vim
correctly[fn: vim ] .
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Then I started to work in Clojure and I heard that emacs might certainly be a
better fit for LISP dialiects.
But, I couldn't switch to an editor without vim keybindings support because they
are so great once you're used to them.
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By chance it was about the same time that [[http://spacemacs.org ][spacemacs ]] appeared and I switched.
Is is really impressive how well the vim keybindings are supported.
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Even most of the advanced vim features I used to use worked like a charm.
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The first benefit of emacs is you can configure emacs with elisp.
Which unlike vimscript looks like a correct language to work with.
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One unexpected benefit of emacs was [[http://orgmode.org ][org-mode ]].
I always heard good things about it but it took me a while to really get it and
to understand why it is so great.
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If you don't know anything about org-mode, it is many things.
First imagine a Markdown but more TODO list oriented.
But along with this, emacs has a lot of helper functions to work with those
org-mode files.
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One real game changer is ~org-capture~ .
You can add a task quite easily while doing other work in emacs.
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[fn:vim] I wrote this article to help people use vim: [[http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressively/ ][learn vim progressively ]]