Tag Archives: Emacs

The Org Agenda

Posted on 2020-09-28 by jcs

Derek Taylor over at DistroTube has another useful video. This time it’s on Org agenda. Taylor is a Doom Emacs user so the keybindings will be unfamiliar to vanilla Emacs users but a couple of minutes with the manual can … Continue reading →

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Document Preparation with Org, LaTeX, and Docker

Posted on 2020-09-26 by jcs

Marco Ieni was tired of working with Microsoft Word so he he built a workflow that uses Org mode for document preparation. Irreal readers know he won’t be getting any arguments here. Even putting aside the brain-dead Word UI there … Continue reading →

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Doom for N00bs

Posted on 2020-09-24 by jcs

Derek Taylor has an interesting take on learning Doom Emacs. Most immigrants to Doom are coming from Vim or are Emacs users who need the more ergonomic evil keybindings because of RSI problems. But, says Taylor, some people coming to … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 75: Bufler

Posted on 2020-09-23 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has added another video to his Using Emacs Series. This time it’s about bufler, a replacement for ibuffer. Mostly when I call up ibuffer, I just want to see a list of my buffers and I don’t care … Continue reading →

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Binder for Your Writing Projects

Posted on 2020-09-21 by jcs

When writers ask for software suggestions, one of the most frequent recommendations I see—other than the evil whose name must not be uttered—is Scrivener. The idea is that you can write in any order you like and keep project notes … Continue reading →

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Leveraging Emacs Introspection

Posted on 2020-09-19 by jcs

James Cash has an instructive video that shows how to leverage Emacs introspection to solves problems or make simple changes. Cash doesn’t like the way Return behaves when the point is on a list item. The default behavior is simply … Continue reading →

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Describe Package

Posted on 2020-09-18 by jcs

Just the other day when I was writing the post about Steve Purcell’s rewrite of whole-line-or-region, I wanted to ensure that I had the latest version of whole-line-or-region to make sure there weren’t any gotchas after an upgrade. I did … Continue reading →

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Prelude 1.0

Posted on 2020-09-16 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov has just announced the release of Prelude 1.0. Don’t let the 1.0 version fool you. Prelude is over 9 years old and a very mature product. Batsov expects work on Prelude to continue but doesn’t envision major changes. … Continue reading →

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Org Mode 9.4 Released

Posted on 2020-09-14 by jcs

Bastien Guerry writes that Org 9.4 has been released: 9 months after 9.3, #emacs #orgmode 9.4 is out, enjoy!https://t.co/W2c3ifoFtr This release deserves a few highlights 👇 — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) September 14, 2020 The changes are here and Guerry also … Continue reading →

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An Update for whole-line-or-region

Posted on 2020-09-13 by jcs

Most of you probably know Steve Purcell as the man behind MELPA or perhaps for his Emacs configuration, which many use as a starter kit. But, in fact, he’s the author or maintainer of numerous packages, one of which is … Continue reading →

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