Monthly Archives: November 2016

isearch Tutorial

Posted on 2016-11-10 by jcs

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

Posted on 2016-11-09 by jcs

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

Posted on 2016-11-08 by jcs

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

Posted on 2016-11-07 by jcs

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

Posted on 2016-11-06 by jcs

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

Posted on 2016-11-05 by jcs

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

Posted on 2016-11-04 by jcs

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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Zamansky 18: Narrowing and iedit

Posted on 2016-11-03 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has his latest video up. This time it’s on iedit and narrowing. For narrowing, he uses Artur Malabarba’s narrow-or-widen-dwim package. I love this package and you should definitely be using it too. It makes narrowing really easy and … Continue reading →

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The EOS Org Mode Configuration

Posted on 2016-11-02 by jcs

Yesterday, I wrote about Lee Hinman’s EOS Emacs configuration and mentioned that because the configuration is factored into modules, it’s easy to adapt them to our own configurations. An example of this is Hinman’s Org Mode configuration. It’s a treasure … Continue reading →

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Living in Emacs

Posted on 2016-11-01 by jcs

As you know, I’m fond of the notion of living in Emacs to the greatest extent possible. For me, that’s an ongoing process much like a Japanese garden: a process that is always seeking perfection but that is never complete. … Continue reading →

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