Tag Archives: Emacs

An Example of an Engineering Notebook

Posted on 2018-12-17 by jcs

Antonin Januska has posted a video showing how he set up and uses an engineering notebook. I’m always interested in how people implement engineering/scientific notebooks and Januska’s video is especially interesting because he implemented his as an Org-mode file. His … Continue reading →

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Is Org the Borg?

Posted on 2018-12-14 by jcs

I laughed when I saw this tweet: omg you guys .org -> .tex -> .pdf is a great work-flow for sharing information. It’s like #inception though – first #emacs became my OS and now everything I create in Emacs is … Continue reading →

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The Default Emacs Key Bindings

Posted on 2018-12-13 by jcs

Despite being a Vi/Vim user for over two decades when I switched to using Emacs, I learned the default key bindings and never looked back. It was a choice that worked well for me and I’ve never regretted it. That’s … Continue reading →

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Experts Use Emacs and Vim

Posted on 2018-12-09 by jcs

Over at the Triplebyte Blog there’s an interesting post on editors, who uses them, what languages their users code in, and how their users did in their interviews. By now you’ve undoubtedly heard about that last aspect: Emacs and Vim … Continue reading →

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Literate Programming with Org-mode

Posted on 2018-12-08 by jcs

Niklas Carlsson has posted a rerecording of a talk he gave at work about the power of Org-mode for literate programming and exploratory programming in general. Although he is running Emacs with the Doom package, you should have no trouble … Continue reading →

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Query

Posted on 2018-12-07 by jcs

This is a question for Emacs users on macOS 10.14 (Mojave). Since upgrading to Mojave and recompiling Emacs with the display patches, I’m seeing a delay of about 5 or 6 seconds when I invoke Safari from Emacs. This happens, … Continue reading →

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Capturing Receipts

Posted on 2018-12-03 by jcs

Moritz Schäfer has posted the workflow he uses to capture photos of receipts into an Org file. His method is to capture receipts by taking a photo of them with his smart phone using an app—it sounds like JotNot Pro—that … Continue reading →

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Making a Poster with Org-mode

Posted on 2018-12-02 by jcs

It is common in many academic fields to have “poster sessions” at their professional conferences where a quick synopsis of research results are presented in a poster. This is the case in Computer Science and, apparently, in medicine. Philipp Homan … Continue reading →

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The Org-ref Video Revisited

Posted on 2018-11-29 by jcs

Recently, John Kitchin tweeted that he has added the org-ref video to his YouTube play list: I added a video to a @YouTube playlist https://t.co/8e7HJa0gwx Introduction to org-ref — John Kitchin (@johnkitchin) November 25, 2018 The video is three years … Continue reading →

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Search and Replace

Posted on 2018-11-27 by jcs

Clemens Radermacher over at (with-emacs has a nice post that discusses various strategies for search and replacement. He considers searching and replacing both in single buffers and in multiple buffers or files. In each case, he looks at the “traditional” … Continue reading →

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