Tutorial Update (Week of July 10)

This is just a quick update on the two video tutorial series that I’m following. These are Mike Zamansky’s series on Using Emacs and Rainer König’s series on Org mode.

Zamansky has been traveling so there are no new videos from his series. He expects to resume the series sometime between now and the end of July.

König has also been busy but does have four new videos up. The first two videos cover internal and external linking. I use external linking all the time. It’s a way of providing a clickable link to a external file or URL. All the links in my blog posts start off life as an Org mode external link. Although there can be many types of external links, the idea is straight forward and easy to learn and understand.

Internal links are a little more complex and König covers the topic well. Part of the complexity is the many ways that you can specify a target for a link. He also explains and demonstrates what Org calls a “radio target.” The idea is that you want to link to the same place in your file from many different places. Radio links let you specify a target and a word (or phrase) and every occurrence of the word(s) will be turned into a link to the target.

The third video discusses and demonstrates the Org attachment mechanism, which lets you attach files or buffers to an Org headline. It’s very flexible and has its own dispatcher to handle the various cases. Take a look at the video for details.

Finally, König covers the Org priority system, which lets you assign priorities to the headings in a file. If that’s the sort of thing that interests you, take a look at the video to see how it works and what you can do with it.

As I’ve said previously, I really like both these series and look forward to seeing videos from them. You should definitely check them out if you haven’t already.

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