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I really want to learn eMacs but most of my work is in Jupiter notebooks in terra.bio - can eMacs interact with that?


https://github.com/emacs-jupyter/jupyter exists. No idea if it’s awesome or terrible.

FWIW, Org Mode is what a native Emacs user might reach for as alternative to Jupyter notebooks: https://michaelneuper.com/posts/replace-jupyter-notebook-wit... That doesn’t imply that you should both try Emacs and replace Jupyter! Just be aware that if either you are using Jupyter for your own reasons or working with like-minded team there is an alternative which may be preferable for your use-case.


Jupyter support in Emacs is pretty bad, tbh. I keep trying every once in a while (as lots of companies prefer notebooks) and it basically never works.

You could probably get it working locally for yourself but in corporate environments it can be annoyingly hard.

org-mode is a better choice, but note that it's not specialised for Python (which is good and bad) so you may need to wire up some stuff (I mostly use R for personal stuff and that works very well).


The emacs everywhere package and a browser extension allow you to edit text live in the browser from emacs, every keystroke, copy/paste etc is mirrored in the browser.

I haven't used terra.bio, but this works for any text box, so should just work.

Of course, emacs has modes for Jupiter and other notebooks, as well a Org Mode and a way to run code from Org Mode to function similarly to such notebooks, just you can execute code in any language, not just python, and can then immediately use the results in the rest of your file, including tables. You can even reference tables in your code blocks.




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