Tag Archives: Emacs

Empty Your Cup

Posted on 2015-01-19 by jcs

Some sage advice from Sacha: It occurred to me that "Empty your cup" is good advice to give to people starting to learn Emacs. pic.twitter.com/j1OwCyBjC3 — Sacha Chua (@sachac) January 13, 2015

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Some Tips from mbork

Posted on 2015-01-16 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a short list of Emacs configuration tips that you may find useful. All of these are documented, of course, but it can be notoriously hard to dig out information of this type. For example, one tip … Continue reading →

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Org Protocol

Posted on 2015-01-15 by jcs

Abo-abo over at (or emacs has been blogging up a storm. So much so that it’s hard to keep up. In a couple of recent posts, he describes how he interfaces his browser to Org mode. The idea is that … Continue reading →

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A Convert Reports on His Progress

Posted on 2015-01-14 by jcs

A year ago, Bailey Ling was a Vim user. Like many of us, he switched to Emacs and now he’s giving a progress report. Many of Ling’s long-held work flows have become victim to Emacs. For example, he used to … Continue reading →

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The Word versus LaTeX Paper Keeps on Giving

Posted on 2015-01-13 by jcs

The infamous Word versus LaTex paper that I wrote about previously has taken on a new life as a gag. Every instance of “Word” in the paper was replaced with “Emacs” and every instance of “LaTex” was replaced with “Vim.” … Continue reading →

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Word versus LaTeX: A Coda

Posted on 2015-01-12 by jcs

A short while ago I wrote about the Knauff & Nejasmic study claiming to show that when Academics are writing papers they are more efficient with Word than with LaTeX. That study was, in my and several others’ opinions, completely … Continue reading →

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Using AUCTeX

Posted on 2015-01-08 by jcs

Before I started using Org-mode for most of my writing, I typeset everything using groff. I occasionally used TeX but very little LaTeX. One of my New Year Resolutions is to learn more LaTeX. My recent post on Piotr Kaźmierczak’s … Continue reading →

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Org Mode for Research Papers

Posted on 2015-01-07 by jcs

Vikas Rawal has an excellent introduction to using Org-mode for writing academic research papers. Rawal is mainly interested in statistical studies so his introduction emphasizes R but not in a way that excludes using his notes for other languages. Almost … Continue reading →

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Looking for a Fancier Mode Line?

Posted on 2015-01-06 by jcs

Here’s a Stack Exchange post that tells you how.

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Welcome to Emacs Development

Posted on 2015-01-05 by jcs

Back when Emacs moved from Bazzar to git, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote a short introduction to Emacs development. I meant to write about it but lost track of the post. Happily, I’ve found it again and am posting about it to … Continue reading →

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