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Emacs as my portable user space across operating platforms

Mohammed Ismail Ansari - https://myterminal.me, mail@myterminal.me

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Schedule for SaturdaySaturdaySat 9:00- 9:10 Saturday opening remarkssat-openSat 9:10- 9:30 The Emacs Planning Habits of a Questionably Effective Person: My 40-year journey of planning with Emacs, Org Mode, paper journals, etc.planningSat 9:50-10:10 Controlling Emacs by voice using EmacslistenlistenSat 10:30-11:00 Multi-dimensional information processing with Emacs and Emacspeak: a blind man's perspectiveemacspeakSat 11:10-11:30 ltx-talk: Accessible presentations with ox-beamerltx-talkSat 1:00- 1:20 Plots with ROOTs: Resilient data visualization with Emacs, Org and gnuplotplotsSat 1:40- 2:00 Plain text presentations in GNU Emacs with ffsffsSat 2:20- 2:30 How I solved Org Mode's biggest mobile and collaboration problemsmobileSat 2:50- 3:10 Hyperbole, My Dear WatsonhyperboleSat 3:30- 3:50 Hyperbole Koutliner: The Best Autonumbered, Hyperlinking Outliner for EmacskoutlinerSat 4:10- 4:30 Close the writing accountability gap with EmacswritingSat 4:50- 5:00 Emacs on Android - Emacs for the next 40 yearsandroidSat 5:20- 5:30 Saturday closing remarks / open sessionsat-closeSat 10:30-11:30 [Panel] Improving the Emacs Community: Onboarding, Participation, and GrowthcommunitySat 1:00- 1:15 Emacs as my portable user space across operating platformsportableSat 1:35- 1:55 Emacs everywhere: A fun romp through esoteric operating systemsosSat 2:15- 2:25 My Space Cadet Deck - an Android Stream Deck replacement with deep Emacs integrationcadetSat 2:45- 3:05 El Remoto: browse any GitHub repos without cloning themremotoSat 3:25- 3:45 æmacs: having a hoot with a guile emacsguileSat 4:05- 4:25 It's Probably Not a Virusvirus9 AM EST10 AM EST11 AM EST12 PM EST1 PM EST2 PM EST3 PM EST4 PM EST5 PM EST

Format: 12-min talk ; Q&A: ask questions via Etherpad/IRC; we'll e-mail the speaker and post answers on this wiki page after the conference Etherpad: https://pad.emacsconf.org/2026-portable
Etherpad: https://pad.emacsconf.org/2026-portable
Discuss on IRC: #emacsconf
Status: Ready to stream

Times in different time zones:
Saturday, Dec 12 2026, ~1:00 PM - 1:15 PM EST (US/Eastern)
which is the same as:
Saturday, Dec 12 2026, ~12:00 PM - 12:15 PM CST (US/Central)
Saturday, Dec 12 2026, ~11:00 AM - 11:15 AM MST (US/Mountain)
Saturday, Dec 12 2026, ~10:00 AM - 10:15 AM PST (US/Pacific)
Saturday, Dec 12 2026, ~6:00 PM - 6:15 PM UTC
Saturday, Dec 12 2026, ~7:00 PM - 7:15 PM CET (Europe/Paris)
Saturday, Dec 12 2026, ~8:00 PM - 8:15 PM EET (Europe/Athens)
Saturday, Dec 12 2026, ~11:30 PM - 11:45 PM IST (Asia/Kolkata)
Sunday, Dec 13 2026, ~2:00 AM - 2:15 AM +08 (Asia/Singapore)
Sunday, Dec 13 2026, ~3:00 AM - 3:15 AM JST (Asia/Tokyo)
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Description

In the talk, I'll cover my brief experience using Emacs across three major operating systems, how it influenced the other tools within my toolset, my effort to share my configuration with the rest of us, and eventually super-emacs: my attempt at a minimal but feature-full starter pack for Emacs that I've been maintaining for over a decade now.

About the speaker: I, Mohammed Ismail Ansari (aka myTerminal), come from an academic background in Electronics Engineering, and have been working professionally as a software engineer since seventeen years. I love to create and experiment with all kinds of machines, not just computers, enjoying the exploration and tinkering process. In the recent years I've also discovered my interest in personal productivity, and pairing them with some of the core elements within my toolset, including Linux, Emacs, and many other open-source software everything fits in place as if it was supposed to be.

Questions or comments? Please e-mail mail@myterminal.me

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