Intro

Due to the nature of my work, I operate in a variety of environments, databases, and languages. Emacs is very good for this. As an example of this, I just found myself needing to verify if an update had worked on the PostGres database of a remote server. First I logged in to the server with better-shell-remote-open¹, and then I sudoed and changed to the postgres user, then I quickly fired up my bookmarked myPostgres.org and found the equivalent I needed: my notes told me that the postgres equivalent of mysql’s describe TABLE is \d+ TABLE. The ability to hop to my notes from anywhere (not to mention how easy it is to navigate said org notes file) allows me to be a more capable Full Stack Developer than I otherwise could be.

Footnotes

¹ Some emacs users have just made their own versions, but why not use one already packaged? better-shell has been my go-to for years, particularly because of how smoothly it interacts with remote servers. https://github.com/killdash9/better-shell