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Zamansky 20: Yanking and Auto Revert

Mike Zamansky has another video up in his Using Emacs Series. This time he provides a video demonstration of counsel-yank-pop that I wrote about previously here on Irreal. As always, things seem clearer and easier to understand when you see … Continue reading

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Zamansky 19: Conditional Loading of Emacs Config

Mike Zamansky has another video in his Using Emacs Series. This video addresses a problem he has while making the videos. A theme of the series is building an Emacs configuration. Each video considers 1 or 2 packages or features … Continue reading

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Org Mode and Python

If you’re a Python user and like to put Python snippets in source blocks in an Org mode file, John Kitchin has some very nice enhancements for you. Kitchin, as Irreal readers surely know by now, is a Chemical Engineering … Continue reading

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isearch Tutorial

Bastien Guerry has a nice tutorial on isearch available on his M-x doctor RET site. Unless you’re really an expert on isearch, there’s a lot you don’t know about it. You can, for example, search for the word or character … Continue reading

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Better Kill Ring Manipulation

Yesterday, I wrote about Ben Maughan’s tip for maintaining the clipboard over an Emacs kill. If you read Maughan’s post you’ll see that there’s a link to a post on cycling through your Emacs kill ring. I remember seeing this … Continue reading

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Maintaining the System Clipboard Over an Emacs Kill

Ben Maughan has a nice tip for Clipboard/Emacs Kill Ring interaction. In recent versions of Emacs at least, you can yank the value of the system clipboard as long as nothing has been put in the kill ring since the … 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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Loyalty Cards

In yet another case of the Iron Law of Data Collection, we have this example from Seattle. For the last four years, King County Animal Services has been sending notices to residents who have unlicensed pets that they must license … Continue reading

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Org 9 Links

John Kitchin has a very nice post and video demonstrating some of the new link features in Org Mode 9. It’s now easy to create custom link types and control the display, look, and action of the resulting links. You … Continue reading

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Org 9.0

Org Mode version 9.0 has been released and is ready for update. Take a look at the Changes file to see what’s new. I’ve had it installed for less than an hour as I write this so it’s a little … Continue reading

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