Tag Archives: Emacs

Video on Using Org Mode for Your Init File

Daniel Mai has a nice video on how he uses Org mode to organize his Emacs init file. I’ve written about this before but some of you may prefer, or at least enjoy, watching a video on the subject. This … Continue reading

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Some Org Agenda Tips

Marcin Borkowski (mbork), who’s been posting several great articles lately, has a nice offering with A few org-agenda hacks. It’s a short list of some of the ways he’s tweaked Org’s agenda view to better suit his needs. As Borkowski … Continue reading

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Emacs, OS X, and PATHS

As I mentioned the other day, I encountered a difficulty in building the documentation for the latest version of SBCL. That’s because I recently updated OS X to El Capitan, which has a new feature. It’s impossible for anyone (even … Continue reading

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Sacha’s Guide to Managing Tasks with Org Mode

The ever awesome Sacha Chua has an excellent Baby Steps Guide to Managing Your Tasks with Org. It’s still a work in progress but even in its unfinished state it’s a really useful guide for getting started with Org mode. … Continue reading

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A Nifty Example of Metaprogramming

Some of the most enjoyable programming I do is metaprogramming: writing code that writes code. Lisp macros are all about that, of course, but the idea is much more general. Often times the code that the code writes is just … Continue reading

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Org Basics IV

Ben Maughan has posted the fourth episode in his Org Mode Basics series. This time he talks about formatting the text in Org buffers and adding executable source code blocks to your Org file. The Org markup language is very … Continue reading

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Seven Years of Reproducible Research

Christophe Pouzat has posted the slides from his talk Seven Years of Reproducible Research: From R / Sweave to Org. As the title suggests, the talk covers Pouzat’s evolution from using R and Sweave for reproducible research to using Org … Continue reading

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Turing Complete Documents

I thought this was pretty funny until I realized it applies to my beloved Org mode too. Why is it that the first thing we do after developing a new document format is to make it Turing-complete? Seriously what is … Continue reading

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The Scope of the Interactive Declaration

One of the very useful things I learned from Xah Lee’s Emacs tutorials is that almost any code can be attached to the Emacs Interactive declaration. The only rule is that the code must return a list of values for … Continue reading

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How to be a Real Language

A language isn't really a *real* language until its got an #emacs major-mode ;-) https://t.co/wPicLkDvh8 — Ian Rumford (@ianrumford) August 18, 2015

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