Tag Archives: Emacs

Elisp in Eshell

Posted on 2019-10-01 by jcs

I’m sure everybody reading this knows that you can invoke elisp commands from the eshell command line but if you’re like me you tend to forget it in the heat of the moment. That’s too bad because it’s often possible … Continue reading →

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The Using Org Mode Features Posts

Posted on 2019-09-27 by jcs

My post on Wednesday about Karl Voit’s explanation of Org-mode tags and categories is actually part of a series. Voit decided to to curate his posts on how he uses Org-mode into a series he calls “Using Org Mode Features” … Continue reading →

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Tags and Categories in Org Mode

Posted on 2019-09-25 by jcs

Karl Voit has a very nice post on Tags versus Categories in Org-mode. I’d completely forgotten about categories, even though I’ve written about them before, so I was glad to get a refresher. Categories, for those who don’t know, are … Continue reading →

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How to Keep a Lab Notebook

Posted on 2019-09-24 by jcs

I saw a pointer to this reddit post with the provocative title “Org mode appearing into the wild…” Naturally, I had to follow the link to see what it was about. It turns out to refer to a Science article … Continue reading →

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Four Org-mode Talks

Posted on 2019-09-19 by jcs

The SF Emacs Meetup group has a video of one of their recent meetings featuring talks by four Org-mode users. The middle two talks, Tikhon Elvis on reveal.js and Jeff Tull on Org Babel, are elementary overviews. They’ll be useful … Continue reading →

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Emacs Workout

Posted on 2019-09-18 by jcs

Tony Ballantyne is an Emacs-using Science Fiction writer whom I’ve written about before. Ballantyne has an interesting device to help him remember Emacs commands: the Emacs workout. The idea is to write short summaries of Emacs features that you find … Continue reading →

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Exporting Only the Contents of An Org Subtree

Posted on 2019-09-15 by jcs

Here’s a short Org-mode tip that, although quite old, I just learned about. Suppose you want to export an Org subtree but you want only the contents and not the header. This emacs-reddit question, which alerted me to the solution, … Continue reading →

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Dumb-jump 0.5.3

Posted on 2019-09-13 by jcs

Back in 2017, I started using dumb-jump after seeing Mike Zamansky’s video demonstrating it. As I said at the time, it really hit the sweet spot for me. I have tried many times over my career to warm up to … Continue reading →

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Using R With Emacs and ESS

Posted on 2019-09-10 by jcs

With the rise of big data, the R programming language has become one of the most popular languages. Indeed, the IEEE has it rated as number 5 in 2019. Probably the most popular environment for R is RStudio, an IDE … Continue reading →

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Opening Images in Emacs

Posted on 2019-09-09 by jcs

These tweets: Expected outcome #Emacs. pic.twitter.com/fHh97DVcda — Antti Tyrväinen (@antti_engineer) September 8, 2019 reminded me that not everyone is aware that you can open image files in Emacs so I thought I’d share the knowledge. If you like, it’s easy … Continue reading →

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