Tag Archives: Emacs

Implementing the Eisenhower Matrix in Org-mode

Posted on 2019-05-24 by jcs

The Eisenhower Matrix—so named because it was used by Dwight Eisenhower—is a technique of visualizing and prioritizing decisions by marking them urgent/non-urgent and important/non-important. If you mark each task with the two attributes, it will fall into one of four … Continue reading →

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A Long Form Writing Environment

Posted on 2019-05-23 by jcs

Ryan Rix, who has the most well thought out and complete Emacs environment that I’ve seen has a post on the setup he uses for long form writing. By “long form” he means more than a paragraph or two on … Continue reading →

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Magit in Spacemacs

Posted on 2019-05-20 by jcs

Jack of Some is back with another video in his Absolute Minimum Series. This time, he takes a look at using Magit from within Spacemacs. Like his last video on Refactoring in Spacemacs, this one is applicable for all Emacs … Continue reading →

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An Emacs Journey

Posted on 2019-05-17 by jcs

Someone tweeted a link to a 6-month-old post by Murat Demirbas, a computer scientist at SUNY Buffalo. The post, My Emacs Journey, describes Demirbas’ use of Emacs and his embracing of Org mode. He’s been using Emacs for over 20 … Continue reading →

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Adding Your YouTube Subscriptions to Elfeed

Posted on 2019-05-16 by jcs

If you’ve been around Irreal for a while, you know that I’m a very happy user of elfeed for my RSS needs. It’s easy, fast, and, of course, I can read my feeds from within Emacs. Just the other day, … Continue reading →

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Markdown in Org-mode

Posted on 2019-05-15 by jcs

Org-mode seems to be gobbling up everything having to do with text generation. Here’s the latest example: Using #markdown blocks in #emacs #orgmode to automatically generate pdf files :-) That’s a way to combine multiple documents in one orgmode file. … Continue reading →

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A Development Environment

Posted on 2019-05-14 by jcs

If you’re a software engineer, one of the most important aspects of your working life is your development environment. You’ve got to be comfortable with your editor, your debuggers, your OS, your desktop, and the other important pieces of your … Continue reading →

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Refactoring in Spacemacs

Posted on 2019-05-13 by jcs

Jack of Some is back with another video. This one is about using Spacemacs to refactor code. For someone who’s content with vanilla Emacs and has no plans to move to one of the other configurations, I’ve been writing a … Continue reading →

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More Org Gems: Tables

Posted on 2019-05-12 by jcs

Just after I published yesterday’s post on Org-mode Gems, I discovered that Cheong Yiufung has another post up with some more Org gems. This time he considers Org Table Gems. In this post he demonstrates three things about working with … Continue reading →

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Org-mode Gems

Posted on 2019-05-11 by jcs

Every Org-mode user is aware that Org is a huge package stuffed with all sorts of useful functionality. For most of us, a lot of that functionality remains unknown and hidden. Most often the only way to find out about … Continue reading →

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