Page:Sacha Chua - Emacs Chat with Carsten Dominik.djvu/22

 Sacha: So the rest of my config is public, which is great because I have accidentally deleted stuff before. It's nice to be able to search the Internet.

Carsten: Yes, that's right. Accidentally delete? I hope you have your configuration on the Git.

Sacha: It's actually slightly more annoying, because I'm stuck on Windows for these drawing programs that I like using with my tablet. So it's not as easy to set up this lovely version control thing. I have Git. I use it for source code but I actually don't have my config in it yet. I should do that.

Carsten: Yes, I think you should. You could always go back.

Sacha: And then you can see the history of your configuration changes as well, which is interesting.

But one of the things I have started doing–you've probably come across this in my blog–I'm starting to use Org-Drill to remember to remember what's in my configuration.

Carsten: I've never used Org-Drill. I know it exists. Does it work?

Sacha: It's actually really helpful. I've been using it to study for various tests as well. I used to use Flashcard before. Flashcard.el did that kind of spaced repetition too. The nice thing about Emacs of course is you could hack things around. With flashcard, I'd set it up to show me a fortune cookie every time I got something correct. Then once I had gone through the entire fortune file, I think I had it set up to show me cute pictures of kittens from Cute Overload or something like that.

Carsten: That keeps you motivated.

Sacha: Yes. Emacs is an eminently hackable thing.

Carsten: Yes. I just love it. I remember that at some point, we had the discussion about "Is it useful to use something as complex as for example Org Mode, or is it better to use something which is very bare bones and basics and not get distracted by configuring your tool?"

I was about to think about it if I didn't agree with people who wanted to have