Tag Archives: Emacs

Converting Markdown Text In The Clipboard To An Org File

Posted on 2025-12-06 by jcs

As I’ve said many times before, I don’t understand why someone would prefer to use Markdown over Org mode but there are such people. At the very least you may be working with outlanders who don’t use Emacs and therefore … Continue reading →

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Configuring AUCTeX

Posted on 2025-12-04 by jcs

If you’re an Emacser who writes in LaTeX you’re doubtless familiar with AUCTeX. Most of the time, you can depend on Org mode to do the heaving lifting but when you have a complicated layout you may have to invoke … Continue reading →

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Presentations With Org

Posted on 2025-12-03 by jcs

Ankit Gadiya has a very nice post that explains and demonstrates how he uses Org for presentations. It’s a nice workflow that uses Org, Logos, Olivetti, and Pikchr to create and display his presentation. Gadiya starts his presentations with an … Continue reading →

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Bending Emacs 6: Overlays

Posted on 2025-11-29 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez has another video in his Bending Emacs series out. It’s about something that we see all the time but may not even be aware is happening or how it works. The subject of the video is overlays. Overlays … Continue reading →

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Some Nice Examples Of Org Babel Use

Posted on 2025-11-28 by jcs

Donald Hunter over at donaldh.wtf has an interesting post about Org Babel’s many powers and uses. Hunter thinks of it as a “polyglot Jupyter Notebook ” and uses it extensively for both professional and personal projects. His post consists of … Continue reading →

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Casual CSV

Posted on 2025-11-25 by jcs

Charles Choi is back with another app in his Casual Suit.This time it’s Casual CSV, a front end for csv-mode. As Choi says, CSV is a seemingly simple format but the rules are really fussy and easy to violate. That’s … Continue reading →

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Is Markdown Really Holding You Back?

Posted on 2025-11-23 by jcs

Brian Hogan has a post that I, at least, find provocative. His thesis is that Markdown—and by extension, Org-mode—are holding you back because they’re not semantic. That’s true, in a way, I guess, but both Markdown and Org-mode are Markup … Continue reading →

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Infix Versus Prefix Operators

Posted on 2025-11-22 by jcs

Over at the Lisp subreddit, Combinatorilliance asks if there are any studies addressing the question of whether infix or prefix notation is easier to read and understand. There are, of course, fierce partisans on both sides of the question. We … Continue reading →

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Calc As A Desktop App

Posted on 2025-11-19 by jcs

As I’ve said many times before, I’m a big fan of Emacs Calc. Try as I might, I haven’t been able to master Calc in its entirety. That’s mostly because it has many advanced features that I seldom or never … Continue reading →

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A Reminder About org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift

Posted on 2025-11-18 by jcs

JTR over at The Art Of Not Asking Why has a useful reminder about something that I, at least, always forget about: org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift. The idea is that you have something scheduled on a certain day but want to repeat that … Continue reading →

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