Re: Emacs+org on Windows 7 pro

[Axel Kielhorn <org-mode@axelkielhorn.de>]

> Am 23.08.2016 um 20:06 schrieb John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>:
> 
> 
> Axel Kielhorn writes:
> 
>>> Am 23.08.2016 um 00:13 schrieb John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>:
>>> 
>>> Checkout http://github.com/jkitchin/scimax. With git installed it will install an opinionatedly configured Emacs. Most of my students use it. I would just have each user install it. 
>> 
>> I’m using a modified jmax right now.
>> Should I switch to scimax?
>> Anything I should look out for?
>> 
> 
> They are largely the same. The scimax repo does not have emacs in it
> anymore,

That is good (don’t need it on non-Windows platforms) and bad (Now I have to get one for windows from somewhere else, maybe jmax?.)

> so it is a lot smaller. scimax tends to use ivy more than helm
> for completion.

All these different completion packages irritate me.
I’m using some helm, let’s see how it works with ivy.
(Luckily I have two 24“ monitors, a lot of room to place notes to remind me of new commands.[1])

> scimax uses use-package for the most part to install
> packages, but I think most of the functionality is the same though.
> 
> The good news is, jmax is finally stable ;)

I’m an org user, I love moving targets:-)

>> Can I simply move my user folder and continue?
> 
> Probably this should work. 

I’ll give it a try[2].

Axel

[1] Note to self: Buy some 3M stock.
[2] Another automator icon on the desktop.