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Grant Rettke’s Take on Narrowing to Multiple Regions

Posted on 2014-06-03 by jcs

Grant Rettke has his own take on a function to enable narrowing to multiple regions of a buffer. I learned about the idea from comments to a post on another matter and wrote about it here. Rettke takes the example … Continue reading →

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Using Table Data in a Shell Code Block

Posted on 2023-04-29 by jcs

Just a quickie on a quickie from Grant Rettke. The quickie is an example from Rettke on how to import and use a table in an Org code block using shell. The secret is that the table entries get passed … Continue reading →

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Code vs. Verbatim in Org Mode

Posted on 2023-02-02 by jcs

If you do even a little writing in Org mode, you’ve almost certainly needed to occasionally typeset a word or sequence of words in a typewriter font. This, at least for me, comes up in two ways: I want to … Continue reading →

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Describe Symbol

Posted on 2022-09-25 by jcs

A short post for a lazy Sunday. Grant Rettke over at Wisdom and Wonder has a quick tip. He recommends trying describe-symbol for invoking Emacs builtin documentation. He says that it’s almost always what you want when you invoke describe-function … Continue reading →

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A Timestamp Hydra

Posted on 2018-05-11 by jcs

It’s astounding how many “standard” formats there are for date/time stamps. Two or three years ago, I gave up my American provincialism on the matter and settled on the formats 2018-05-09, 2018-05-09 Wed, and 2018-05-09 Wed 13:24. I like them … Continue reading →

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Lightweight Literate Programming with Hydras

Posted on 2018-03-19 by jcs

Grant Rettke has an interesting take on abo-abo’s Hydra package. His idea is that you can use hydras for a sort of lightweight literate programming. Most Irreal readers are already aware of hydras’ utility as a way of gathering related … Continue reading →

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End Your List Items with a Period

Posted on 2017-12-09 by jcs

Grant Rettke over at Wisdom and Wonder has helped me resolve a long standing conundrum. When I have a list like this I can never decide whether or not to end each list item with a period. I can adduce … Continue reading →

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Removing Org Source Block Results

Posted on 2017-07-15 by jcs

Grant Rettke over at Wisdom and Wonder has posted a nice bit of Elisp that runs a function on every source block in an Org file. His use case for this is getting rid of the results from running the … Continue reading →

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Org2blog/wp and Multibyte Characters

Posted on 2017-06-26 by jcs

I love blogging with org2blog. I write my posts as normal Org documents and org2blog takes care of everything else including renaming and uploading jpegs and things like that. About a year ago, I started having problems with org2blog dying … Continue reading →

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Using Org Mode for Writing

Posted on 2017-05-24 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, willmhorne asks how people use Org’s outlining capabilities for essays, books, and other long-form writing. Most Org users have their own answers to this but it’s very interesting and useful to see what others have … Continue reading →

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