Emacs and Org Mode: What People are Saying

For a couple of years I’ve been collecting tweets about Emacs and Org mode. With the Twitter app’s new ability to provide code to embed tweets I decided to create a post listing the collection. If you are not an existing user of Emacs or Org mode these tweets should give you a feel for whether you might want to explore further. If you are already a convert then many of the sentiments expressed here will be familiar. Note that the links and hashtags below are clickable. (Like all of this Blog, this post was written in Org mode.)

https://twitter.com/K1Hedayati/status/504539678310424576

Question is incorrectly formulated. Any "Can I do X in #Emacs?" should be written "How do I do X in Emacs?". — from SO via @ssapunkova

— Bozhidar Batsov (Bug) (@bbatsov) August 22, 2014

I'm starting to draft my master's thesis, and am loving #emacs, #orgmode, #reftex and #ess.

— Konsta Happonen (@Koalha) July 30, 2014

Anyone who's never edited with something like undo-tree seriously needs to try it. Just saved an hour or two. http://t.co/EYSWwf2u3n #emacs

— Gareth Smith (@totherme) May 31, 2014

after trying a bunch of todo utilities I always come back to the #emacs orgmode

— Andreas Tiefenthaler (@pxlpnk) March 8, 2014

Amazing to watch a 37-year-old piece of software get better every day. Emacs shows clearly that useful software is never finished.

— Steve Purcell 🇪🇺🇳🇿 (@sanityinc) November 7, 2013

My own half-works "solution" for avoiding Word: write in emacs org-mode, export to odf, convert to Word format, deal with problems.

— jrms (@jrms) October 12, 2013

After a few months with Sublime Text, I decided to switch back again to #Emacs.

— Marco Dalla Stella (@mdallastella) August 26, 2013

My prob with LaTeX was that it was difficult to convert a file to .doc for my supervisors. Emacs' org-mode solved that as it exports to .odt

— George Iordanou (@iordanou) August 23, 2013

https://twitter.com/NeilDunbar66/status/364698349166800896

I am becoming totally addicted to Emacs' org-mode… I'm slowly putting everything in there.

— Cesare Tagliaferri (@taglia) July 11, 2013

org-mode for emacs is as amazing as people claimed it to be. It can even do Litterate Programming!

— Nicolas (@uucidl) July 8, 2013

Someone should marry org-mode and ipython notebook

— Floris Bruynooghe (@flubdevork) June 30, 2013

@_awj I write everthing in org-mode. Books, talks, RubyTapas episodes, blog posts.

— Avdi Grimm (@avdi) June 7, 2013

RT @taylodl: #emacs is a lifelong hobby. It's also a useful text editor.

— Unix tool tip (@UnixToolTip) May 26, 2013

Emacs + ace-jump-mode + key-chord = Mindblown

— Declan Kelly (@DeclanK) May 16, 2013

やってみよう：alias vim='emacs'

— もこもこひょうのkakakaya🐆 (@kakakaya) April 26, 2013

@calcnerd256 I feel like org-mode is an ocean that I've barely tiptoed into. And still it is super useful.

— Emacs Rocks (@EmacsRocks) April 25, 2013

https://twitter.com/rodet/status/326667805497901059

Oh org-mode… is there anything that you can't do? #swoon

— ӺØⓖµƨ (@fogus) April 12, 2013

@ddeaguiar I know some vim users, who use #emacs only for the Org-Mode and #vim for anything else e.g. editing of emacs configs with vim

— Hussein Morsy (@HusseinMorsy) April 9, 2013

I have tried many LaTeX IDEs, but I think it's back to Emacs + AucTeX for me.

— Michael Ekstrand (@mdekstrand) March 28, 2013

@pcorym After you actually learn how to use emacs, using anything else seems unproductive.

— David Huie (@DavidHuie) March 25, 2013

The glory of org-mode is being able to formulate your thoughts and organize them separately

— brain (@shmit) March 19, 2013

I love vim, but I'm supremely jealous of emacs org-mode. #nerdproblems

— Chris Binz (@CRBinz) March 15, 2013

after 12 or so years of social apps #emacs is the best social network I know. users who care, lots of meta information and goo chat.

— nic (@nicferrier) February 17, 2013

@troymelhase it started as just a replacement for textmate, now its replacing everything else, like IM, irc and twitter. #emacs

— jose soares (@jsoa) February 15, 2013

Emacs Rule: If you can imagine it. Emacs has a feature for it.

— Robert (@kventil) February 5, 2013

A true Emacs Knight covets not tabs. Confident he is in the superiority of classic Emacs techniques for buffer navigation.

— Emacs Knight (@emacs_knight) January 30, 2013