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Re-imagining the Emacs User Experience with Casual Suite

Charles Choi (he/him) - Pronunciation: Che, IRC: kickingvegas, http://yummymelon.com/devnull/ , Mastodon: https://sfba.social/@kickingvegas

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Schedule for SaturdaySaturday 9:00- 9:10 Saturday opening remarkssat-open 9:10- 9:20 Writing academic papers in Org-Roampapers 9:40-10:00 Managing writing project metadata with org-modeproject10:20-10:40 The Future of Orgorg-update11:00-11:10 Colour your Emacs with easecolor11:30-11:50 Emacs, eev, and Maxima - now!maxima 1:00- 1:10 My journey of finding and creating the “perfect” Emacs themetheme 1:30- 1:45 Watering my (digital) plant with Emacs timerswater 1:55- 2:35 Emacs as a shellshell 2:45- 3:05 Re-imagining the Emacs user experience with Casual Suitecasual 3:25- 3:45 New in hyperdrive.el: quick install, peer graph, transclusion!hyperdrive 4:05- 4:15 Emacs Writing Studiowriting 4:25- 4:50 Emacs 30 Highlightsemacs30 5:00- 5:10 Saturday closing remarkssat-close10:00-10:20 Gypsum: my clone of Emacs and ELisp written in Schemegypsum10:40-11:00 An experimental Emacs core in Rustrust11:20-11:45 p-search: a local search engine in Emacsp-search 1:00- 1:10 Exploring shared philosophies in Julia and Emacsjulia 1:25- 1:45 Beguiling Emacs: Guile-Emacs relaunched!guile 1:55- 2:05 Committing secrets with git using sops-modesecrets 2:25- 3:25 Elisp and McCLIMmcclim9 AM10 AM11 AM12 PM1 PM2 PM3 PM4 PM5 PM

Format: 19-min talk ; Q&A: BigBlueButton conference room https://media.emacsconf.org/2024/current/bbb-casual.html
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Saturday, Dec 7 2024, ~2:45 PM - 3:05 PM EST (US/Eastern)
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Description

To date, the predominant interaction model for Emacs has been to use keybindings or the mini-buffer prompt to issue commands. These commands are drawn from a vast ecosystem of packages (both core and third party) designed to extend Emacs. When these commands are used in aggregate, the aforementioned interaction model places a high cognitive load on the user. It also sets a very steep learning curve for Emacs.

The inclusion of the Transient model package in Emacs facilitates a different interaction model using keyboard-driven menu interfaces. Menu interfaces excel at discovery and recognition, neither of which are well supported with keybindings and a prompt. Menu interfaces also can be made contextual to allow the user to focus on a task at hand.

Casual Suite is a personal effort to re-imagine the Emacs user experience by using keyboard-driven Transient menus as its primary interaction model.

This talk describes Casual Suite, detailing its implementation and operation.

About the speaker:

Charles Choi has been an Emacs user since 1989 but did not get around to learning Elisp until 2022. He possesses formal knowledge of computers with a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering received from the University of Virginia in 1997. He is from and continues to live in San Francisco.

Questions or comments? Please e-mail emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org

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