A World of Emacs and Python
Shakthi Kannan (~shakthi) |
Description:
GNU Emacs is a very popular text editor written in C and Emacs Lisp. It can be run on different platforms, and is easily customizable and extensible to the users' needs. It has wonderful support for doing Python development, and a number of packages are available to help boost programmer's productivity. I would like to demonstrate the same with numerous examples, including using Org-mode for doing DevOps work.
An outline is as follows:
Editing features
Interactive mode
Literate DevOps
Testing
Documentation
Prerequisites:
None.
Speaker Info:
Shakthi Kannan has been using GNU Emacs for decades, and is an avid promoter of Free/Libre and Open Source Software. He is also Free Software enthusiast who plays a Senior DevOps Engineer role at Aerospike, Bengaluru. He blogs at shakthimaan.com, and holds a Masters degree in Information Technology from Rochester Institute of Technology.
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Previous Talks:
Building careers with FLOSS (~ 1h)
Pretty Printing in Python (~ 29m)
A World of Emacs (~ 42m)