<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear Azer, Dear everyone,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">thanks again for bringing up the topic of writing in Emacs which is quite dear to me. I just send a couple of links from my bookmarks which helped me to find the setup I like, maybe it is of interest for some of you. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Jay Dixits talk about Emacs for writers:<br class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtieBc3KptU" class="">
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtieBc3KptU</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Vim Valley Talk on replacing Scrivener with Emacs and Vim (unfortunately I do not know the authors name so I  can not give due credit):</div><div class=""><a href="https://vimvalley.com/replacing-scrivener-with-emacs-and-vim/" class="">https://vimvalley.com/replacing-scrivener-with-emacs-and-vim/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">By the way this is Scrivener:</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview" class="">https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tony Ballantynes Emacs writing tips:</div><div class=""><a href="http://tonyballantyne.com/EmacsWritingTips.html" class="">http://tonyballantyne.com/EmacsWritingTips.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Some other things:</div><div class="">- org-bullets: <a href="https://github.com/sabof/org-bullets" class="">https://github.com/sabof/org-bullets</a></div><div class="">- Coming from Vim I missed the quick way to navigate around in text so I gave evil mode ( yes the OTHER editor) a try but did not stick with it in the end: <a href="https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil" class="">https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- here are some navigating tips and tricks I learned and which I use now instead </div><div class="">(again) Magnar Sveen: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZkpmegySnc" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZkpmegySnc</a></div><div class="">and Mickey Petersen: <a href="https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/effective-editing-movement" class="">https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/effective-editing-movement</a></div><div class=""><div class="">- expand-region: <a href="https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el" class="">https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el</a> (also helpful if you write a film script or dialogue for example using quotes or brackets a lot)</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Two themes I like:</div><div class="">- for night time: solarized theme: <a href="https://github.com/bbatsov/solarized-emacs" class="">https://github.com/bbatsov/solarized-emacs</a></div><div class="">- for the daytime: dracula theme: <a href="https://draculatheme.com/emacs/" class="">https://draculatheme.com/emacs/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">and I use git / magit for all my text files as well and also to sync between different computers</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To close off: Johannes Schmidt about Niklas Luhmanns „Zettelkasten“ (in german language): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbncA7bDl70" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbncA7bDl70</a> </div></body></html>