Tag Archives: Emacs

Building Presentations

Posted on 2017-09-27 by jcs

Oskar Wickström has a nice post on automating the build of your technical presentation. Wickström likes to develop his code examples and diagrams concurrently with the text of the presentation. That means that the code and diagrams can change often … Continue reading →

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A Graphviz Go by

Posted on 2017-09-26 by jcs

As I wrote the other day, the Graphviz dot language for drawing graphs is pretty simple and easy to learn but if, like me, you don’t use it very often, it’s easy to forget the details. There’s an excellent manual … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 37: Treemacs

Posted on 2017-09-24 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has a new video up. This time he discusses the Treemacs file browser. The idea is to recreate file browser side tab that editors like Atom popularized. You can watch the video to see its features and how … Continue reading →

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Karl Voit on the Superiority of Org Mode Markup

Posted on 2017-09-23 by jcs

I’ve been following a tweet discussion between Karl Voit and several others over the relative merits of light weight markup languages. You can get a feel for the arguments by expanding the following: For #orgmode as a markup (w/o Emacs) … Continue reading →

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Org Entities

Posted on 2017-09-21 by jcs

Today I saw this tweet about Org entities: M-x org-entities-help is your #orgmode buddy — Olivier Berger (@olberger) September 21, 2017 I didn’t realize how much I needed org-entities-help. It’s pretty easy to enter many of the common Unicode characters … Continue reading →

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Graphviz and Org Mode

Posted on 2017-09-19 by jcs

Over at The Joy of Programming there’s a nice introductory post on using Graphviz’s dot command to draw graphs and how you can make the process almost interactive by calling dot from within an Org source block. The dot command … Continue reading →

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Orgmode 9.1.1

Posted on 2017-09-18 by jcs

Bastien sends word that there’s a new version of Org out: #emacs #orgmode 9.1.1 is out. Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) September 17, 2017 If, like me, you’re OCD about keeping up to date with Org, it’s already in Melpa. … Continue reading →

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Emacs Rocks! #16

Posted on 2017-09-17 by jcs

After 3 years, Magnar Sveen has smiled upon us with a new episode of Emacs Rocks! For newcomers, Emacs Rocks! episodes are short videos of 2 or 3 minutes that explore some aspect of working with Emacs. If you haven’t … Continue reading →

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The `ed` Editor

Posted on 2017-09-16 by jcs

If you’re a Vim or Emacs user, you’ve seen a lot of jokes like this one from XKCD: They usually end the chain with cat but sometimes, like the above, they go all the way to butterflies. All that’s good … Continue reading →

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Emacs as a Cloud Service

Posted on 2017-09-14 by jcs

Next step: #emacs as a service in the cloud — ▶️️ (@davidradkowski) September 10, 2017 Yeah, this is probably a joke but if there is one thing I don’t want from Emacs, this is it.