Category Archives: General

Five Org Mode Features

Posted on 2017-06-29 by jcs

Aja Hammerly has a post that those trying to decide whether or not Org mode is for them may find useful. Hammerly is a developer advocate for the Google Cloud Platform. As such, she writes tutorials, gives talks, and even … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 35: Blogging

Posted on 2017-06-28 by jcs

I discovered Mike Zamansky’s blog about a year ago when I wrote about his transition to Nikola as a blogging platform. Shortly afterwards, he began his Using Emacs Series. His latest video has, in effect, come full circle as he, … Continue reading →

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Choice Lists for Yasnippets

Posted on 2017-06-27 by jcs

This will probably be up on Planet Emacsen before I have a chance to publish it but if you haven’t already seen it be sure to take a look at Ben Maughan’s really excellent tip on Yasnippets. He shows how … 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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Police State

Posted on 2017-06-25 by jcs

What could go wrong?

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Protecting Line Breaks from Fill

Posted on 2017-06-24 by jcs

Here’s a nice tip from Marco Wahl on protecting line breaks from the fill command in Org mode. \\ protects breaks from fill (M-q) in #orgmode. Linebreaks survive fill \\In Org thanks backslash two times. \\Somenone starts #Emacs. — (@mrcwhl) … Continue reading →

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Make M-RET better in Org Mode

Posted on 2017-06-23 by jcs

If you’re an Org mode user you probably know that Meta+Return can be used to create a new headline, list item, or table field. One minor annoyance is that by default it will split line you’re on at the point, … Continue reading →

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The Inevitable End of Government Surveillance

Posted on 2017-06-21 by jcs

Kontra gives us a useful reminder: Final destination of *every* single government surveillance/intelligence program anywhere. https://t.co/XmCBKB6ZMV — Kontra (@counternotions) June 19, 2017 Here’s the backstory from the New York Times.

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More Font-locking Fun from Fuco1

Posted on 2017-06-20 by jcs

The other day, I wrote about Fuco1’s efforts to add some context awareness to Emacs font-locking. Now he’s back with a new font-locking problem. This time, he wants to highlight interpolated variables in quoted strings in shell code. Those of … Continue reading →

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Xah’s Tutorial on Text Properties

Posted on 2017-06-19 by jcs

Xah Lee has a new page out in his Emacs Lisp Tutorial that serves as a 10 minute introduction to text properties. Text properties are one of those things that you probably won’t need to fiddle with directly unless you … Continue reading →

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