Tag Archives: Org-mode

Stefan Kangas writes to tell us about an emergency Emacs release to version 29.4. This is the result of a recently discovered Org mode problem, that you can read about here. Both projects have offered updates. The Org mode announcement … Continue reading →

Emacs Elements is back with a useful video on Org mode internal links. If most of your Org documents are short—a blog post, say—you probably haven’t felt the need for internal links but if you, even occasionally, write longer form … Continue reading →

Lately, I’ve seen a lot of posts asking how to move Obsidian files to Org mode. Even though this is Irreal, I won’t weigh in on why you might want to do that because I’ve never used Obsidian and don’t … Continue reading →

The other day, I wrote that you never stop learning Emacs. There’s always something new to learn. I just saw a post that reminded me that—at least for me—you never stop relearning Emacs either. The post asked about why indentation … Continue reading →

As you all know, I’m not much for editor bling even though I care immensely what my finished text looks like. Still, I did take to heart Charles Choi’s recommendation to use proportional fonts for prose. The idea is that … Continue reading →

Although I find it hard to believe, the Minions assure me that there are still people who prefer writing in Markdown rather than Org-mode. I don’t want to relitigate that issue here. If you’re interested in why no right thinking … Continue reading →

Emacs Elements has a short video on sparse trees. The TL;DR is that sparse trees give you a method of filtering an Org file to show only the information that you’re interested in. The information can be random text, a … Continue reading →

I’ve been writing in Org mode for a long time. Every bit of Irreal began life as an Org doc and I have a huge collection of private documents that are also written in Org markup. The killer feature of … Continue reading →

Eli Zaretskii writes to tell us that Emacs 29.3 has been released. It’s the first time in a long time—or maybe ever—that I can recall Emacs releasing a security update. It’s an editor, after all, what security issues could it … Continue reading →