Re: [emacs-humanities] Why Emacs-humanities?

[Protesilaos Stavrou]

Thank you everyone for your insights!

For my part, I am excited to join this list as a member and co-moderator
because I feel it can offer a platform to discuss topics pertinent to a
perhaps under-represented subset of (i) users and (ii) uses of Emacs.
It would be nice to learn how people configure Emacs to solve particular
problems in their area of specialisation.

A few words about how I am part of this group:

+ Was never a tech-savvy fellow.  At least not before switching to
  GNU/Linux four years ago.  I studied social sciences, but I am neither
  an academic nor employed in those fields.

+ My switch to free software was about politics/ethics.  To address
  concerns such as consumer sovereignty, privacy, and the like.  Also to
  resist the ever-expanding reach of oligopolistic interests in this and
  other domains.

+ I have acquired basic programming skills by reading documentation as
  well as through trial and error.  In practice this means that I know a
  little bit of shell scripting and some Emacs Lisp.  Nothing fancy.

+ I started using Emacs in the summer of 2019 because I understood it
  could cover all of my day-to-day computing needs: email, blogging,
  reading news feeds...  Plus satisfy my curiosity to learn some
  programming and eventually become better at contributing something
  back to the free software community.

+ I spend a lot of time writing: email correspondence, private notes,
  responses to issues on my git-controlled projects, articles for my
  website, documentation for everything code-related that I contribute
  to.  I write in Markdown and Org, but also in plain text-mode.

+ Otherwise I use Emacs for programming and concomitant tasks such as
  version control.  Most of the time this is about my Modus themes or
  the files that form part of my Emacs setup (what I call "dotemacs",
  alias ".emacs").

+ So I guess I count as a generalist, though I still feel closer to the
  humanities than, say, engineering or computer science.

That is all for the time being.  I am looking forward to learn from your
experiences and, where possible, help however I can.

All the best,
Protesilaos or simply "Prot"


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Protesilaos Stavrou
protesilaos.com