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Plain text presentations in GNU Emacs with ffs

Amin Bandali (he/him) - IRC: bandali, https://www.shemshak.org/~amin, bandali@gnu.org

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Format: 20-min talk ; Q&A: BigBlueButton conference room https://media.emacsconf.org/2026/current/bbb-ffs.html
Etherpad: https://pad.emacsconf.org/2026-ffs
Discuss on IRC: #emacsconf
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Saturday, Dec 12 2026, ~4:00 PM - 4:20 PM EST (US/Eastern)
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Saturday, Dec 12 2026, ~3:00 PM - 3:20 PM CST (US/Central)
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Sunday, Dec 13 2026, ~2:30 AM - 2:50 AM IST (Asia/Kolkata)
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Sunday, Dec 13 2026, ~6:00 AM - 6:20 AM JST (Asia/Tokyo)
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Description

This talk introduces ffs, a package that provides a simple presentation mode which can be applied to any buffer for reading, writing, editing, and presenting slides. Slides are separated using the page-delimiter, by default the ^L character, known as the form feed.

About the speaker:

Amin Bandali is a computing scientist and activist for user freedom, and a participant in various free software projects and communities.

In this talk, Bandali will demonstrate configuring and using ffs for minimalist presentations in GNU Emacs.

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

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