Tag Archives: Org-mode

Franco Pasut has posted on exporting variables from Org to LaTeX. The TL;DR is that you can define LaTeX macros defining a variable value in #+LATEX_HEADER: entries at the top of the Org file and then interpolate the variables in … Continue reading →

Isa Mert Gurbuz (isamert) has a very interesting post on using Org Babel to interactively deal with Web APIs. Starting with Zweifisch’s ob-http, he queries a site and gets some JSON returned. The ob-http code even allows you to pipe … Continue reading →

Any of you with an even fleeting familiarity with Irreal know that we are not fans of Word and its evil siblings. Still, even though our official position is that Word—in all its incarnations—is the spawn of the Devil, we … Continue reading →

This is a followup to yesterday’s post on Nicolas P. Rougier’s notebook-mode. When I was going through the code trying to understand how everything worked I noticed that the Org source code had a #+begin_sidefig / #+end_sidefig environment that mapped … Continue reading →

Look at this! Literate programming in #emacs using org mode and org babel. pic.twitter.com/AOpYwpnmq7 — Nicolas P. Rougier (@NPRougier) December 20, 2021 Despite my protestations of being all-digital / all-day, I’m a sucker for this type of thing. It’s just … Continue reading →

Daniel Gopar offers up this gem on attaching Dired files to an Org-mode tree: #orgtip: Found this little nugget that I didn’t know existed. You can attach files from a dired buffer to an #orgmode tree.https://t.co/iTfBLHBvVm#emacs — Daniel Gopar (@pygopar) … Continue reading →

David Wilson of the System Crafters Channel has a new video in his Build a Second Brain playlist. The serious is about Org-roam, and is, as I’ve said before, the best introduction to and guide for setting up Org-roam that … Continue reading →

This is another post that discusses a talk from EmacsConf 2021. This one, by Karl Voit, is about the Org-mode markup language. Org markup is superior to its competitors—sorry Markdowners, you know it is—but suffers from the fact that it’s … Continue reading →

Over the weekend, the 2021 EmacsConf took place and presented a slue of great talks. Irreal will mention at least a couple of them starting with Tom Gillespie’s astounding talk on how to make Org files executable. The first question … Continue reading →

For us Emacers, one of the longstanding shortcomings of iOS and, to a lesser extent, the Android ecosystem is the lack of an Emacs app. There are several Org-mode centered apps that allow you to perform various Org functions on … Continue reading →