Category Archives: General

Some Calc Features

Posted on 2016-04-02 by jcs

I haven’t written about Emacs Calc for a while but I find myself using it all the time. It’s one of the lesser known secrets of Emacs and that’s too bad. You can use it as a quick calculator in … Continue reading →

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ob-hy.el

Posted on 2016-04-02 by jcs

Just a quickie to report that John Kitchin is on a tear with Hy. Today he’s posting about his development of ob-hy.el to further integrate Hy into Org mode. It’s pretty nice. One day in and he can already execute … Continue reading →

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Kitchin: Day Two with Hy

Posted on 2016-04-01 by jcs

Yesterday, I wrote about John Kitchin’s post on Hy, a Lisp dialect that essentially compiles to Python allowing you to write in Lisp while still having access to the Python RTL. Kitchin has published a new post describing his second … Continue reading →

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What if Elisp and Python Had a Child?

Posted on 2016-03-31 by jcs

John Kitchin, as Irreal has covered many times, is doing a lot of excellent work with Org mode and Emacs. Most of his scientific computation is done in Python, a language he’s been using for 15 years and is very … Continue reading →

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Moving to the Next/Previous Link in Org Mode

Posted on 2016-03-30 by jcs

Here’s something I didn’t know. You probably won’t need this often but it’s a useful thing to add to your toolbox. Didn't know this #orgmode command. Have been missing it for a while. https://t.co/I37Jt2iUg7 — Nuno M. Salgueiro (@nmsalgueiro) March … Continue reading →

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Email Strategy

Posted on 2016-03-30 by jcs

As Scooby-Doo would say, RUH? My aunt has a 'winter' email address and a 'summer' email address. I want to discuss the logic of this with her, but life is too short. — Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) January 27, 2016

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Molecule Representations in Org Mode

Posted on 2016-03-29 by jcs

This will be of no use to most of us but it’s so darn neat I had to write about. John Kitchin, who’s a genius a finding ways to move nearly everything into Org mode, has a blog post on … Continue reading →

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Some Oldies but Goodies

Posted on 2016-03-28 by jcs

When I find a useful Emacs package or tip, I almost always write about it so others can take advantage of them too. The other day I was using one of those packages and thought, “Gee, this is really neat. … Continue reading →

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Inserting Underscores

Posted on 2016-03-27 by jcs

John Kitchin offers a nice tip for Emacs users who write in Python, C, or some other language that makes heavy use of underscores. Best innovation for writing python in Emacs I have made so far: make — insert _. … Continue reading →

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Note Taking with Org Mode

Posted on 2016-03-26 by jcs

I thought I’d written about Tony Pelaez’s video on Taking Notes in Emacs Org-Mode before but I couldn’t find the post. Even if I did write about it, it’s a nice introduction to one of Org mode’s most useful functionalities … Continue reading →

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