Tag Archives: Emacs

Org-ref-cite Video

Posted on 2021-08-09 by jcs

Yesterday, we took a quick look at the new Org-cite functionality. It’s been merged into Master and will doubtless see its official release with Org 9.5. In the mean time, John Kitchin is busy reimagining his wonderful org-ref package to … Continue reading →

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Org Cite

Posted on 2021-08-08 by jcs

As I’ve said before, one of the worst parts of preparing a paper for publication is dealing with the bibliography. LaTeX has reasonably efficient ways of inserting and referencing citations but there’s been no effective way of using them from … Continue reading →

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Eight Reasons Emacs Is The Best Editor

Posted on 2021-08-06 by jcs

Alex Wulff has an interesting post that lists eight reasons that he believes shows that Emacs is the best editor. The Emacsistas on Irreal don’t need any reasons or posts; they’re already secure in their belief of Emacs’ supremacy. Still, … Continue reading →

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Editing Browser Input in Emacs

Posted on 2021-08-04 by jcs

One of the downsides of being a Safari user is that the extension architecture doesn’t support the functionality that other browsers do. In particular, where other browsers allow you to call out to Emacs when editing fields in the browser, … Continue reading →

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Progress ⁢⨉ 2

Posted on 2021-08-02 by jcs

There were two bits of progress reported yesterday. The first is the announcement of the release of Magit 3.2. I’d describe the changes, as listed in the announcement, tweaks that make Magit more useful but nothing earth shattering. You can … Continue reading →

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Org-roam As a Second Brain

Posted on 2021-08-01 by jcs

David Wilson over at the YouTube System Crafters channel has a new video up on getting started with Org-roam and building a second brain. It’s the best introductory video I’ve seen on Org-roam and, of course, Wilson is promising more. … Continue reading →

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More on Writing Academic Papers with Org-mode

Posted on 2021-07-31 by jcs

The other day, I wrote about Wouter Spekkink’s Org-mode setup for writing academic papers and promised to followup with Jonathan Bennett’s post on the same subject from a couple of years ago. As I started to prepare my post on … Continue reading →

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Writing Academic Papers With Org-mode

Posted on 2021-07-29 by jcs

Wouter Spekkink has an interesting post on his workflow for writing academic papers using Emacs and Org-mode. It’s a long post because he wrote it for several different audiences. He starts with what Emacs and Org-mode are and why someone … Continue reading →

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Some Custom Commands from Prot

Posted on 2021-07-27 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has another video up in which he discusses a few of the commands he’s implemented to make his workflow easier. There’s no overriding theme, just some functions he’s written that ease his work in various ways. For … Continue reading →

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Ten More Emacs Tips

Posted on 2021-07-26 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the Ten Useful Emacs Tips video from the Emacs-Elements YouTube channel. Now there’s a new video, 10 More Helpful Emacs Tips. Like the last video, you will probably be familiar with some … Continue reading →

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