dotemacs VS org-jira

If anyone is looking for a solid Emacs configuration, I highly recommend checking out:

https://github.com/bling/dotemacs

This is particularly useful if you appreciate the Vim (Evil) style of text editing but want to adopt Emacs as your operating system (apps) for everything.

Bailey Ling, the creator of this configuration, transitioned from Visual Studio to Vim to Emacs. He has authored several Vim/Emacs packages, including vim-airline.

Here's a video of him demonstrating Evil mode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeVQwYUxYEgu

What makes his configuration stand out is:

He has a multitude of useful packages pre-configured. This is also why people appreciate Spacemacs and Doomemacs (but more on that later).

His codebase is incredibly easy to understand and modify.

I've declared Emacs bankruptcy several times (building from a plain config, Spacemacs, Doomemacs, cloning another high-profile user's config, etc.)

The issue with Spacemacs and Doomemacs is:

They have a massive codebase. You can, of course, just configure the layers and treat everything else as black boxes, but that doesn't truly make Emacs an extension of your own.

There's always some maintenance required to keep up with upstream, especially if you've made a lot of non-surface level changes.

Bling's dotemacs is essentially just one core-boot.el, which sets up a loop to pick up all config/.el and binding/mode/.el files.

To add some features, you simply need to add to config/ and a new binding.

To remove something you don't want, just delete a pair of files (config & binding).

I never realized that my messy config was partly due to having features and key bindings tightly coupled together (like using the use-package macro). Now that these are separated, it's much easier to modify it to my liking.

Also, I don't have to worry about syncing with upstream, since I understand what each and every file does, and I have made massive changes to it.

I have since stolen a lot of features I want from spacesemacs and other users and adapted it to my own config.

I've seen this config repo which is really cool and easy to read and basically works this way: the init files does some preliminary stuff, then loads all the files in the /core and /config directory. I've seen that if i compile the byte code of the scripts in /config by themselves, there are some warnings of variables and functions not defined. The included files do not have explicit dependencies because everything is automatically included by the init file.

What ticket system is used? If it JIRA there is the org-jira package.

org-jira My current company is trying to switch to Aha right now though, which I'm not happy about. If anyone knows of a link between Aha and org, I'd love a way to sync between them automatically.

You may find ahungry/org-jira useful then in that case.

If you are open to try Emacs and its Org mode there is ahungry/org-jira which integrates Org mode with Jira. I've not used Jira before and hence not org-jira but my entire GTD system is within Emacs and Org mode.

Worth mentioning that Emacs has org-jira if you want text mode jira.

https://github.com/ahungry/org-jira

Previously I've worked successfully with JIRA (https://github.com/ahungry/org-jira) and Trello (http://org-trello.github.io) but I guess not every tool has a bidirectional sync with Emacs.

If the notes you keep are terse and to the point, though, then syncing Org and Jira 1:1 can make a lot of sense. In that case, do check out the popular Ejira and org-jira packages, which help with just that!