Tag Archives: Emacs

Taking Math Class Notes With Emacs

Posted on 2020-10-30 by jcs

A year and a half ago, I wrote about Gilles Castel’s video on taking math class notes. I found his workflow astounding. He was able to take LaTeX notes in Math class at speed. By “at speed” I mean he … Continue reading →

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Literate Calc Mode

Posted on 2020-10-28 by jcs

Robin Schroer has an interesting project that recently landed in MELPA. Many of you know that I’m a big fan of reproducible research and its handmaiden literate programming. Schroer’s project is a sort of light-weight Jupyter Notebook that’s integrated with … Continue reading →

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Orgmode.org Has a New Look

Posted on 2020-10-26 by jcs

Just a quickie today to note that the Org-mode site, orgmode.org, has a brand new look. That’s thanks to the work of Tecosaur who completely revamped the site. According to his announcement over at Reddit, the core pages are smaller … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 76: Bookmarks and Burly

Posted on 2020-10-24 by jcs

Mike Zamansky is back with another video in his Using Emacs Series. This time he discusses Emacs bookmarks and the Burly package. You can set a bookmark for any file that you need often and use the bookmark-jump function to … Continue reading →

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Programmatic Programming with Graphviz

Posted on 2020-10-19 by jcs

Correl Roush has a very nice post that beautifully illustrates the idea of writing code to write code. It’s a tremendously powerful idea because it lets you leverage some other program or programming language to do a task that requires … Continue reading →

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Emacs Shells

Posted on 2020-10-18 by jcs

One of the things that’s harder than it should be in Emacs is embedded shells. You can type Meta+x shell and sort of have a shell. Except it doesn’t work very well. There are other options but it can be … Continue reading →

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A Medievalist Uses Emacs

Posted on 2020-10-15 by jcs

The title almost sounds like something you’d see headlining a parody but it turns out that a medievalist using Emacs is really what this post is about. Joseph R. Johnson is a medievalist at Georgetown who spends a great deal … Continue reading →

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Org Code Block Results

Posted on 2020-10-13 by jcs

John Herrlin has a followup to his previous post about Org-mode code blocks. This one deals with controlling the output of a block’s execution. I usually think of the :results parameter as a way of choosing where the results from … Continue reading →

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Compiling Gccemacs on macOS

Posted on 2020-10-11 by jcs

I’ve written a few times about gccemacs (1, 2, 3) and what it means for the future of Emacs. The good news is that it’s being merged into the Master branch and with any luck will make its first official … Continue reading →

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Is Emacs Doomed?

Posted on 2020-10-10 by jcs

No. Of course not. The commentary one sees on Emacs is much like that one sees for Apple: This latest [smartphone | editor] is an [iPhone | Emacs] killer. Besides, the iPhone/Emacs is old, tired technology. It’s doomed. And yet, … Continue reading →

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