Tag Archives: Org-mode

Sam Wallace has an interesting post on how he takes research notes. He’s a Mathematics PhD student so he reads lots of papers that he has to take notes on as well as class notes and his own research projects. … Continue reading →

As regular readers know, I’m not much for bling and fancy formatting in my editor but that’s a personal choice without a moral dimension. Plenty of people like to have their Emacs buffers look as nice as possible. For those … Continue reading →

Tony Aldon has an interesting post on reddit that discusses the implementation of Org speed keys. That doesn’t seem like it would be all that interesting but it turns out to be more complex and involved than you might think, … Continue reading →

NOTE: Once again, WordPress is refusing to publish the embedded tweet. I don’t think this is Twitter’s fault because it renders perfectly on my local machine; it’s just when I try to push it to WordPress that it fails. I’ve … Continue reading →

Ravi Sagar has a quick video that shows you how to bulk-rename tags in an Org file. If you don’t use tags in your Org files, this probably seems like something you’d hardly ever want to do. Indeed, even Sabar … Continue reading →

Franco Pasut has posted on exporting variables from Org to LaTeX. The TL;DR is that you can define LaTeX macros defining a variable value in #+LATEX_HEADER: entries at the top of the Org file and then interpolate the variables in … Continue reading →

Isa Mert Gurbuz (isamert) has a very interesting post on using Org Babel to interactively deal with Web APIs. Starting with Zweifisch’s ob-http, he queries a site and gets some JSON returned. The ob-http code even allows you to pipe … Continue reading →

Any of you with an even fleeting familiarity with Irreal know that we are not fans of Word and its evil siblings. Still, even though our official position is that Word—in all its incarnations—is the spawn of the Devil, we … Continue reading →

This is a followup to yesterday’s post on Nicolas P. Rougier’s notebook-mode. When I was going through the code trying to understand how everything worked I noticed that the Org source code had a #+begin_sidefig / #+end_sidefig environment that mapped … Continue reading →

Look at this! Literate programming in #emacs using org mode and org babel. pic.twitter.com/AOpYwpnmq7 — Nicolas P. Rougier (@NPRougier) December 20, 2021 Despite my protestations of being all-digital / all-day, I’m a sucker for this type of thing. It’s just … Continue reading →