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Executing All Babel Buffers

Over at the Emacs subreddit, justrajdeep asks an interesting question: If you have several Babel source blocks in an Org document, is there any way to execute all the blocks and get their data with a single command. I often … Continue reading

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Debugging With Org-babel

Wade Mealing has an interesting article on using org-babel for the analysis of Linux kernel bugs. Mealing is a Red Hat engineer and involved with tracking down problems in the Linux kernel. He has a more-or-less fixed procedure for doing … Continue reading

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Literate Programming Using Org Babel

Gregory Stein has an excellent post on Literate Programming with Org-Mode. Despite the title, it’s really more about leveraging Org Babel to create literate documents that contain notes, code, and results. This is, of course, the same area that Howard … Continue reading

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Org Babel Recipes

I find that one of the most useful features of the phenomenally useful Org mode is the Babel code block capability. You have to have facility with at least one programming language, of course, but this is Irreal so that’s … Continue reading

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Using Babel Video

Rainer Köenig has a new video in his OrgMode tutorial series. This time he takes a brief look at using Babel in Org files. The video is a bit limited because, as Köenig admits, he doesn’t have very many use … Continue reading

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Literate Programming with Babel

Angelo Basile has an interesting post on using Babel and Org Mode for literate programming. As he remarks, his setup is particularly useful in an educational environment. It’s a short post but has some useful ideas. If you’d like to … Continue reading

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Translating Text with Org Babel

This really blew me away when I saw it. It’s an example of a simple use of Org Babel to translate phrases from English to Mandarin. Of course, all the heavy lifting is done by the Python library translate but … Continue reading

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Exporting JavaScript from a Babel Source Block

One of the nice things about Org mode is that “You’ll never have to write HTML again.” That’s not quite true, of course, but it mostly is. Just write in Org markdown, including tables, and then export it to HTML … Continue reading

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Org Babel and Applescript

Grant Rettke over at Wisdom and Wonder points to an interesting project that integrates Org Babel and Applescript. If you’re a Mac user and sometimes work with Applescript (or even if you want to play around with it) you should … Continue reading

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Literate Programming With Org Babel

Howard Abrams recently gave a talk at the PDX Emacs Hangout in Portland. So far, there is no video of the talk but Abrams did write up his notes1. The talk was intended to be a workshop so you should … Continue reading

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