Tag Archives: Emacs

From WordPress to Org

Posted on 2015-09-07 by jcs

Part of the reason that I moved Irreal from Blogger to WordPress was that I wanted to use org2blog to write and publish my posts directly from Emacs. As a result, every post on Irreal started life as—and is maintained … Continue reading →

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Literate DevOps Video

Posted on 2015-09-06 by jcs

I’ve mentioned Howard Abrams’ posts on Literate DevOps before. I think of it as a sort of reproducible research where you record the steps you use to create a deployment image including the code for each step. Abrams does this … Continue reading →

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Move Back to Last Misspelling

Posted on 2015-09-04 by jcs

One of the handiest things I’ve learned from Pragmatic Emacs is using 【Ctrl+;】 to cycle through possible corrections for the last misspelled word. It’s especially handy because the point doesn’t have to be on or at the end of the … Continue reading →

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File Local Variables in an Org File

Posted on 2015-09-03 by jcs

A nice tip from Artur Malabarba: It’s often convenient to use file local variables in your Emacs files. It provides a way of setting certain Emacs variables—mode, fill-column, comment-column, etc.—on a per file basis. There’s a problem, though, when using … Continue reading →

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Pages in Emacs

Posted on 2015-09-02 by jcs

Eric James Michael Ritz over at One More Game-Dev and Programming Blog has a nice post on how and why to use pages in Emacs. Pages in Emacs are text separated by form feeds (0xC)1. As Ritz explains, it’s easy … Continue reading →

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Org Mode and Pandoc

Posted on 2015-09-01 by jcs

Bsag over at But She’s a Girl has a nice post on using Org mode and Pandoc. She says that she’s abandoned Markup in favor of Org mode because, among other things, it provides a rich set facilities for handling … Continue reading →

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Emacs is Sexy

Posted on 2015-08-31 by jcs

Apparently, #Emacs is sexy 😀 http://t.co/dAGUnlMK2X — Mathias Dahl (@themathiasdahl) August 4, 2015

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Org Mode Basics: Structuring Notes

Posted on 2015-08-30 by jcs

Ben Maughan of the wonderful Pragmatic Emacs is writing a series of articles on Org mode. It’s a big subject, of course, so he’s starting off easy by talking about the feature that got him started: structured notes. He covers … Continue reading →

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Scheduling Emacs Events

Posted on 2015-08-28 by jcs

Jon-Michael Deldin has a short post detailing how to schedule periodic events in Emacs. Most of us probably don’t want to have Emacs natter at us as implemented in Deldin’s example but it’s easy to imagine many helpful uses for … Continue reading →

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Converting from Word to Org

Posted on 2015-08-25 by jcs

In a comment to one of my recent posts (1, 2) on converting from Org mode to Word doc format, Grant Rettke pointed me to an interesting Org Mode mailing list thread on how academics leverage Org mode for writing … Continue reading →

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