M_m_kos·Jan 25, 2024Submission
Scimax: An Emacs starterkit for scientists and engineers
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scimax
Emacs Lisp2018–2024
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scimax
An emacs starterkit for scientists and engineers
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4 sourcesscimax : https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax
org-ref : https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref/
literature review with org-ref : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2aNBnxosUQ
In Jupyter and org-mode in scimax [video]There are a few projects that do this, but I think there's certainly room for more. I'd love to see one focused on using the Zettelkasten method.
Here are three I'm aware of:
Scimax: https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax
Emacs Speaks Statistics: https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS
Frontmacs: https://github.com/thefrontside/frontmacs
So long as these approaches expose the full power of Emacs to their users, I can't imagine the UX being as rock-solid as we might expect from modern purpose-built tools (e.g. PyCharm, Overleaf, Obsidian, ...).
It might help to hide/disable most default interactive functions, which provide a huge surface area for non-Emacsers to break things. Emacs actually does this by default for a few functions: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DisabledCommands
Also relevant here is wakib-keys:
https://github.com/darkstego/wakib-k
Read the rest
eys.
I've found ob-ipython [1] within Org Mode to be one of the best options for interfacing with Jupyter. If you're sick of the limitations of working in a browser, it's worth checking out.
Scimax version: https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax/blob/master/scimax-ipytho...
Video of Scimax version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMira3QsUdg
Previous HN discussion highlighting key features: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17839926
Some relevant blog posts:
- https://vxlabs.com/2017/11/24/getting-ob-ipython-to-show-doc...
- https://vxlabs.com/2017/11/30/run-code-on-remote-ipython-ker...
- https://kozikow.com/2016/05/21/very-powerful-data-analysis-e...
[1] https://github.com/gregsexton/ob-ipython
In Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice