Tag Archives: Emacs

Karl Voit Lightning Talk

Posted on 2015-08-24 by jcs

PIM export Karl Voit gave a lightning talk on Org Mode at the recent Chaos Computer Club Camp2015. Being a lightning talk is was pretty short. That’s too bad, I would have liked it to be a bit longer. The … Continue reading →

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Super- and Sub-Word

Posted on 2015-08-22 by jcs

I’ve blogged about this before but here’s a handy chart to server as a reminder: #Emacs subword-mode, superword-mode, camelCase, snake_case http://t.co/34mROSF4rs pic.twitter.com/wj3mNEKmAq — Xah Lee (@xah_lee) August 18, 2015

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Calc Tutorial Video

Posted on 2015-08-21 by jcs

Karthik C has a very nice video entitled Emacs-Calc: The Poor Man’s Mathematica. It’s a tutorial on some of the features of Emacs calc. He begins by covering the basic stack machine nature of calc and how to perform simple … Continue reading →

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Wha?!?

Posted on 2015-08-20 by jcs

I’ve recently experienced a canonical instance of the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. Until the other day, I had no idea that Emacs had a built-in spreadsheet. Now, I’m seeing references to ses (Simple Emacs Spreadsheet) everywhere. It even has its own manual. … Continue reading →

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Repeated Links in Org Mode

Posted on 2015-08-19 by jcs

The tireless Artur Malabarba has shown us how to make custom Org links for special purposes before (1, 2). Now he shows us how to implement Markdown links. The point here is that with Markdown, you define a link and … Continue reading →

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Emacs for Professional Writers

Posted on 2015-08-18 by jcs

Last time, I wrote about how Bin Chen writes in Org mode and exports the final document to Word doc format. Most engineers are spared the indignity of having to produce Word documents but if you’re a writer producing anything … Continue reading →

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How to Convert from Org to Word

Posted on 2015-08-17 by jcs

If you’re like me, you’d rather take a pencil in the eye than write using Word or any of its evil spawn. Sometimes, though, you really need to deliver a doc file. Even in a lead engineer position I sometimes … Continue reading →

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Emacs as an OS

Posted on 2015-08-14 by jcs

Daniele Sluijters says: People make fun of #emacs calling it an OS, but why do you call #Xcode that's actually bigger than #osx an IDE? — Daniele Sluijters (@daenney) August 3, 2015 He has a point but I don’t think … Continue reading →

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Mickey on Flycheck

Posted on 2015-08-13 by jcs

If you’re a Flymake user, Mickey over at Mastering Emacs has some advice for you: switch to Flycheck. It’s a drop in replacement for Flymake that has better out-of-the-box language support and is faster. Mickey says that for him the … Continue reading →

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Diffing Regions in the Same File

Posted on 2015-08-12 by jcs

A Nice tip from Aaron Fischr: #emacs hint of the day: Compare two regions in a single file with M-x ediff-regions-wordwise — Aaron Fischr (@fu86) July 31, 2015 This works for relatively small regions. For larger regions (over 200 lines, … Continue reading →

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