Still, I don't think I am ever going to use spacemacs to write code, but for note-taking(with inline LaTeX preview)/todo/calendar, I am 100% happy with it.
I only use it for org-mode right now, still do most of my heavy editing in other tools but it's already been extremely useful for note-taking and todo tracking.
I can also recommend pandoc[1], I've used it to convert some org-mode documents into various wiki/markdown formats for presenting to others.
Understandable, and not an issue for me.
My first issue was that there is an error from the start in the main version. That bug was fixed, but syl20bnr refused to do a hotfix. To make matters worse the main download that a new user gets is 13 months old at this point.
So a new user can either install the hotfix themselves or move to the dev branch. A new user isn't informed that they should just be on the dev branch and that due amount of changes since the last main branch release that the new user is better off deleting everything and starting over straight from the dev branch.
I'm also considering playing around with the interactive shell, in particular for various scripts and whatnot, and I'm thinking of broadening my horizon a bit more. Could the Emacs experts in here give me some suggestions as to what might be good next steps, alongside the shell stuff?
emacs is pretty much jupyter notebook before jupyter notebook was jupyter notebook.