Tag Archives: Emacs

Useful Emacs and Org-mode Features

Posted on 2021-04-19 by jcs

Karl Voit gave an excellent talk at Grazer Linuxtage 2021 on some Org Mode features that you may not know. The talk also covered some Emacs features that he uses to enhance his workflow. He has an outline of the … Continue reading →

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Writing Technical Documents with Org Mode

Posted on 2021-04-18 by jcs

alpha2phi has a nice post on writing documentation with Emacs and Org-mode. The post is reminiscent of Mike Hamrick’s video on keeping technical documents consistent and uses some of the same techniques. Alpha2phi starts with importing Fabrice Niessen’s excellent ReadTheOrg … Continue reading →

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Emacs Diary and Calendar

Posted on 2021-04-14 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou has posted another of his excellent videos on Emacs. This time it’s about the Emacs Diary and Calendar operations and how they work together. It turns out that the diary and the calendar are tightly integrated and work … Continue reading →

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Deactivate Mark

Posted on 2021-04-13 by jcs

If you’re like me, you probably don’t think very much about activating and deactivating the mark. We know it gets set when we do a large movement or when we set it manually with Ctrl+Space. We know that the current … Continue reading →

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Mickey on Native Compilation

Posted on 2021-04-12 by jcs

As a nice coda to Saturday’s post on native compilation, the incomparable Mickey has his own post on native compilation. As most Emacers know, Mickey is an Emacs expert and his opinions on Emacs matters are always worth paying attention … Continue reading →

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Native Compilation: Ready to Merge

Posted on 2021-04-10 by jcs

Eli Zaretskii has announced that he expects to merge the new native compilation code into the Master branch next week. This is a significant milestone for a really important feature. Most of the comments were along the lines of “I’ve … Continue reading →

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Running a Shell Command from Emacs

Posted on 2021-04-08 by jcs

Over at Emacs Redux, Bozhidar Batsov has a short post on using Meta+! to run a shell command from the minibuffer. The output can go to various places—see Batsov’s post for the details—but usually what you want is to specify … Continue reading →

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Reading PDF Files with DocView

Posted on 2021-04-04 by jcs

Emacs-Elements has a nice demonstration on using Emacs’ DocView to read PDF files. One of the nice things about DocView—as opposed to PDF Tools—is that it can read PS, DVI, Djvu, and ODF files as well as PDF files. The … Continue reading →

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An Org Workflow

Posted on 2021-04-03 by jcs

Luca Cambiaghi, a data scientist from Copenhagen, has a post on his Org-mode workflow. He’s got three problems to solve: He doesn’t know when a particular task needs to be worked on. He forgets to check on tasks that need … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Text Editors in Lord of the Rings

Posted on 2021-04-02 by jcs

If editors were places from Lord of the Rings, what would they be? Kieran Healy has an amusing answer. My only complaint is that Word is not a text editor. Still, its assigned place is apt.

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