Tag Archives: Org-mode

Using Emacs & Org in College (Programming) Assignments

Posted on 2021-01-24 by jcs

If you’re an experienced Emacser, the idea of using Emacs everywhere—including for school assignments—is second nature. Of course, not everyone is an experienced user. Some, like Seshal Jain, discover Emacs in the course of their studies and evolve their workflows … Continue reading →

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Org To Beamer

Posted on 2021-01-21 by jcs

One of the easiest and most popular methods of making presentation slides is reveal.js, which exports your slides as HTML so that you can display them with any browser. Sometimes, though, you want to produce your slides as PDFs and … Continue reading →

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Knuth’s Literate Programming Paper

Posted on 2021-01-14 by jcs

Literate Programming. Back in 1984 when Knuth published his paper proposing Literate Programming, he believed that the concept would take over the programming world. I remember him saying that companies that failed to adopt Literate Programming would soon fall behind … Continue reading →

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Group Tags in Org-mode

Posted on 2021-01-09 by jcs

I know about Org’s group tags but like any things in Emacs, I wasn’t using them so they slipped out of my mind. Until today. Today, I saw this Tweet: #orgtip: This one blew my mind, org mode allows you … Continue reading →

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Abo-abo on Org-Roam

Posted on 2021-01-01 by jcs

Regular readers know that I’m very taken with the Zettelkasten idea and have implemented my own (sort of) Zettelkasten with Org-mode. My homegrown solution is not very featureful or convenient so I installed org-roam (a FOSS alternative to the popular … Continue reading →

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Org Mode for Reproducible Research

Posted on 2020-12-26 by jcs

Thibault Lestang of Oxford University has a very nice video that makes the case for using Emacs and, in particular, Org-mode for academic research. He’s very interested in reproducible research and his talk is centered around the idea of Org-mode … Continue reading →

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Mastering Emacs is a Slow But Enjoyable Process

Posted on 2020-12-22 by jcs

Over at Where parallels cross, Andrea has an interesting post that recounts his slow but enjoyable journey to Emacs mastery. Like many Emacsers, the journey began with his PhD studies. Since then he has learned more Emacs and integrated it … Continue reading →

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Org Spreadsheet Tutorial

Posted on 2020-12-19 by jcs

Over at DjPj, pjs64 has a nice tutorial on using some of the spreadsheet properties of an Org tables. It’s one of the most powerful aspects of Org tables and I use it all the time. The trouble is, it … Continue reading →

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Managing Servers with Org

Posted on 2020-11-28 by jcs

Fragbot has an interesting reddit post talking about using Emacs as a standalone infrastructure that can be shared by others. The idea is that you integrate Emacs into a workflow for use by folks who aren’t normally Emacs users. He … Continue reading →

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A Free Blog with Org and GitLab

Posted on 2020-11-22 by jcs

Ravi Sagar has an interesting video that shows you how to publish a free blog to GitLab using Org-mode. The result is a static Web site, of course, and Sagar’s example is very simple but you can use CSS to … Continue reading →

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