Tag Archives: Emacs

Writing a Book in Org Mode

Posted on 2015-09-22 by jcs

Grant Rettke over at Wisdom and Wonder points to an interesting discussion on the Org mailing list about writing a book in Org mode. The thread starts with Vikas Rawal’s announcement of his book, Ending Malnutrition: from commitment to action … Continue reading →

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Plotting with Python and Org

Posted on 2015-09-21 by jcs

Andrew Caird over at For the Love of Suffering has a nice post on how to use Python and Org mode to visualize data. As usual with this sort of thing, Caird leverages Org Babel to integrate a Python script … Continue reading →

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Compiling Emacs

Posted on 2015-09-18 by jcs

Matthew Daly reminds us of something that’s easy to forget: it turns out that compiling #emacs from source is much easier than I anticipated. one more thing to love about this amazing software! — Matthew Daly (@nodezsh) August 28, 2015 … Continue reading →

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Page Navigation in Emacs

Posted on 2015-09-16 by jcs

A week or two ago I wrote about Eric James Michael Ritz’s post on using pages in Emacs. If you haven’t already, be sure to follow the link to Ritz’s post. Now the estimable Artur Malabarba continues the theme with … Continue reading →

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Org Basics III

Posted on 2015-09-15 by jcs

Ben Maughan has posted the third installment of his series on Org mode basics. This time he considers adding links and images to Org files. As usual, the majority of the presentation is in the form of an Org file … Continue reading →

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DevOps for Your Development System

Posted on 2015-09-14 by jcs

I’ve written before about Howard Abrams’ posts on Literate DevOps and his very nice video illustrating the techniques. As I mentioned in the video post, we can all benefit from these ideas in our day-to-day work. Grant Rettke over at … Continue reading →

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Using Emacs Keychords

Posted on 2015-09-11 by jcs

I don’t really believe this but it is funny: using #emacs keybindings pic.twitter.com/2I1g1YAvZt — Satyajit Ranjeev (@sat_ran) September 6, 2015

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Emacs Macro Counters Tutorial

Posted on 2015-09-10 by jcs

Eric James Michael Ritz has a nice, short tutorial on using Emacs macro counters. I’ve written about this before but Ritz’s tutorial is a nice reminder if you haven’t used macro counters for a while. Definitely worth a read.

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Org Basics II

Posted on 2015-09-09 by jcs

As I wrote previously, Ben Maughan is writing a tutorial on Org mode basics. He continues the series with a very basic introduction to tables in Org mode. This post covers just the very basics like how to enter tables, … Continue reading →

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Using Org Mode as a Lab Notebook

Posted on 2015-09-08 by jcs

Erik Clarke over at pleiotropy has a couple of nice posts on using Org mode as a lab notebook. The first post lays out his requirements for a digital lab notebook. As you can probably guess, these include Permanence Citations … Continue reading →

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