Tag Archives: Emacs

Blogging With (Only) Emacs

Posted on 2020-03-13 by jcs

If you’re an Emacser and a blogger, you will, of course, want to write and publish your posts from within Emacs. If you’re using WordPress, org2blog provides an excellent solution. You write your posts in Emacs and Org-mode as usual … Continue reading →

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Smart Notes

Posted on 2020-03-12 by jcs

I’m currently reading Sönke Ahrens’ How to Take Smart Notes, a book that describes Niklas Luhmann’s method of taking, storing, and retrieving notes about ideas he thought could be useful later. Luhmann kept his notes on what amounted to index … Continue reading →

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Org and Anki

Posted on 2020-03-11 by jcs

If you took my advice and checked out Ali Abdaal’s videos on evidence-based study techniques, you know that one of the two guiding principles of effective learning is spaced repetition. An easy way to do that is to start with … Continue reading →

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Notion and Org Mode

Posted on 2020-03-08 by jcs

Ali Abdaal, whom I’ve mentioned a couple of times before, is a physician and YouTuber from Britain. He’s a geek who at least once a week uploads a video usually about medicine, tech, or studying and learning. If you’re a … Continue reading →

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Some Simple Tramp Tricks

Posted on 2020-03-06 by jcs

One of the great and mostly underappreciated features of Emacs is the Tramp system that lets you seamlessly edit files on a remote computer. There are, of course, situations where Tramp is not the right answer—working with large files on … Continue reading →

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File Hierarchies

Posted on 2020-03-05 by jcs

A nice post from Karl Voit has been languishing in my blog queue since January and I realized that it was time to write about it. In the post, Voit argues that complex file hierarchies are the wrong answer. If … Continue reading →

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The First Pretest for Emacs 27.1 is Ready

Posted on 2020-03-04 by jcs

Nicolas Petton writes that the first pretest for Emacs 27.1, Emacs 27.0.90, is available for download and testing. If you don’t mind living a bit on the edge and would like to try out the latest and greatest, give it … Continue reading →

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TECO

Posted on 2020-03-02 by jcs

If you’ve ever wanted to play around with the patriarch of the Emacs family, now you can. The TECO editor was developed in 1962 to work with paper tapes. In fact, TECO originally stood for “Tape Editor and Corrector” but … Continue reading →

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An Introduction to Org Capture

Posted on 2020-03-01 by jcs

One of the most powerful and useful functions provided by Org Mode is the capture facility. With it, you can easily capture data and context and store it in an Org file of like items in any of a number … Continue reading →

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Using Org Capture Globally

Posted on 2020-02-28 by jcs

After my recent disaster with my old MacBook Pro, one of the functionalities that I still haven’t restored is the ability to call Org capture from outside Emacs. I used to have a bit of Apple Script that I could … Continue reading →

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