Tag Archives: Emacs

Writing LaTeX with Org Mode

Posted on 2018-05-03 by jcs

Writing in \(\mathrm{\LaTeX}\) produces beautiful documents but there’s a pretty steep learning curve. If you’re writing technical documents with lots of mathematics, it’s worth climbing that curve and if you’re an Emacs user, you’ll certainly want to become familiar and … Continue reading →

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Emacs Lisp Bytecode

Posted on 2018-05-02 by jcs

Very few Emacs users—no matter how advanced—ever need to worry about the specifics of the Elisp bytecode, or even, for that matter, that it exists. Still, as guys like Chris Wellons have shown, it can sometimes be useful to have … Continue reading →

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What Cursor Position

Posted on 2018-05-01 by jcs

You may or may not know about what-cursor-position (bound to Ctrl+x =) that displays the current position of the point in the echo area. It’s probably not too useful if you have the row and column displayed in the mode … Continue reading →

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Emacs Video: Play Emacs Like an Instrument

Posted on 2018-04-29 by jcs

Alain Lafon gave an excellent talk on using Emacs like a virtuoso, which, happily, was captured on video and is available for everyone to enjoy. The talk isn’t really an introduction to Emacs for n00bs—although it could be used for … Continue reading →

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Documents and Presentations with Org Mode

Posted on 2018-04-28 by jcs

John Goerzen has another post in his coming back to Emacs series. This time he looks at writing documents and preparing presentations with Emacs and Org mode. It’s an elementary discussion but there’s plenty that will be useful to newcomers … Continue reading →

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Org 9.1.12

Posted on 2018-04-27 by jcs

Bastien Guerry tweets that there’s a new version of Org available: #emacs #orgmode 9.1.12 is out. Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) April 26, 2018 If you’re tracking the Org repository, the new version is already there.

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Zamansky 48: Silver Searcher

Posted on 2018-04-23 by jcs

The other day, Mike Zamansky made a post that I really liked. It was about his grading workflow and how he tries to lessen the tedium by making it as efficient as possible. As many of you know, I enjoy … Continue reading →

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The Trouble With OneNote and Evernote

Posted on 2018-04-22 by jcs

In a post that serves as a nice complement to my recent musings on Open Source Tools, Karl Voit notes that Microsoft is discontinuing OneNote. Although he’s too polite to say so directly, if you’re a OneNote user, you have … Continue reading →

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Org Babel Recipes

Posted on 2018-04-21 by jcs

I find that one of the most useful features of the phenomenally useful Org mode is the Babel code block capability. You have to have facility with at least one programming language, of course, but this is Irreal so that’s … Continue reading →

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Blogging with Hugo and Org Mode

Posted on 2018-04-18 by jcs

Over at ZCL.SPACE there’s an informative post about blogging with Hugo and Org mode. The post serves as a reasonable go-by for setting up and using Hugo for an attractive, static blog. Although Hugo now supports Org markup natively, the … Continue reading →

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