> just a WM (XMonad), a browser (Firefox+vimperator), Emacs
> and a terminal (urxvt, which I only use occasionally)
Exactly my setup... now if only Firefox would not peg a CPU core or two in the background and slow down to a grind ever so often... (despite NoScript, uBlock origin etc.)
The nightly build is realllllly fast. It starts getting the result of their years of work to speed things up. But it's incompatible with some addons. E.G: lastpass will freeze the browser for a few seconds.
There's a lot of libraries that do the hard work for you though... Anyway, if an EKF is too much effort, you could also try the "Madgwick" filter:
Madgwick, S. O., Harrison, A. J., & Vaidyanathan, R. (2011). Estimation of imu and marg orientation using a gradient descent algorithm. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics
Maybe it is of limited use for non-emacs users, but imho it's a fantastic way to use git with a perfect balance between making simple things very easy to do and allowing (almost) anything you can do with the CLI while providing excellent visual feedback.
I also found the git plugin [1] in the Sublime Text Package Control repository to be rather useful. The basic idea is similar to magit, with the (subjective) upside of avoiding the crazy Emacs hotkeys.
That said, since I discovered Spacemacs, I'm also enjoying using Magit - the "evil" control scheme for it is great, too.
magit is a marvelous piece of work indeed, and the thing that keeps me going back to Emacs every time I get curious about some other editor.
But yeah, I picked it up after quite some time working in Emacs, and the keybindings feel natural. Perhaps it would be very different for somebody new to Emacs.
The Japanese keyboard layout is great for that! I am using Control on the Muhenkan and Henkan buttons left and right of the space bar and Alt on Alt and Katakana/Hiragana/Romaji buttons next to them. I also have Caps lock mapped to Control if pushed and Esc when released without another key (xcape) - works great!
As a side note, if you are already in emacs, you could write your articles in org-mode instead of LaTex.
It's gotten to a point where I am starting to see Latex exclusively as a language to compile to, not something you want to write yourself.
If you haven't used a well-configured org-mode, have a look at this demo for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t925KRBbFc. There's nothing out there (open source or proprietary) that comes close for scientific work in my opinion.
