Tag Archives: Emacs

By the Way

On Tuesday, I wrote about my discovery of org-next-link and how it quickly became my go to method of navigating to Org links. Today, my target link was before the point and it suddenly dawned on me that there was … Continue reading

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Zamansky 26: Syncing with Gcal

The other day I wrote about Rainer König’s video on syncing Gcal with Org agenda. Serendipitously, Mike Zamansky just posted a video on the same subject. Zamansky solves the problem in a different way so it’s definitely worth watching his … Continue reading

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Indexing Org Files with a Database

The other day, I wrote about how Karl Voit uses an Org file to index his other Org files. It’s a nice scheme that’s light weight and easy to understand and it fits in well with his Memacs system. John … Continue reading

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Syncing GCal with Your Org Agenda

Rainer König has the latest video in his OrgMode Tutorial series up. This time it’s about synching Google calendar to the Org agenda. Many folks, even those who otherwise live in Emacs, prefer to maintain a separate calendar. Most calendar … Continue reading

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Fast Opening an Org Index File

I’ve written before about Karl Voit’s Memacs system. It’s basically a set of programs that collects all his daily data—phone calls, emails, photographs, texts, bank statements, git commits, and so on—stores it in Org files and then makes it available … Continue reading

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Terminal vs. GUI Emacs

The Emacs subreddit has an excellent thread on terminal versus GUI for Emacs. It started when iamquah asked if there were any large disadvantages to running Emacs in a terminal rather than using the GUI version. He’s a recent convert … Continue reading

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Devops with Emacs

Alexey Koval has a nice post illustrating some of his devops workflow using Emacs. In a way, devops brings together most of the chores that folks use Emacs for. You edit files on remote machines to adjust configurations, you write … Continue reading

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A Paperless Workflow

Aqeel Akber has a nice post up about his recent switch to an almost paperless workflow. Akber is a physicist so he has lots of notes to take on his various projects. Until recently he kept them in separate notebooks … Continue reading

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Elisp Symbols Tutorial

Four years ago, I wrote about Xah Lee’s Elisp symbols tutorial. It’s a excellent tutorial that helps n00bs understand symbols and distinguish them from their close cousins, variables, found in other languages. I noticed today that Lee has updated the … Continue reading

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Emacs Sales Pitch

Via Wilfred Hughes, here’s a pithy sales pitch for Emacs Should you consider learning Emacs? Why does it have such passionate devotees? Here's the sales pitch: pic.twitter.com/yGXZhvNKT2 — Wilfred Hughes (@_wilfredh) December 27, 2016

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