Tag Archives: Emacs

TIL: Something New About Ace Jump Mode

Posted on 2014-08-15 by jcs

Regular readers know that I’ve been a huge fan of ace-jump-mode ever since I saw it demonstrated by Magnor Sveen in one of his celebrated Emacs Rocks! episodes. More recently, I’ve been using it all the time as a replacement … Continue reading →

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Org Mode Links

Posted on 2014-08-14 by jcs

Artur Malabarba has a great post on using Org-mode links to link to anything. It’s a hugely powerful facility that, as Malabarba says, is mostly unknown. Head over to Endless Parentheses for the details. I wasn’t going to write about … Continue reading →

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John Kitchin on Using Org Mode

Posted on 2014-08-13 by jcs

I’ve written about John Kitchin and his use of Emacs and org-mode several times (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Somehow I missed his latest contribution but Sacha Chua had my back and mentioned it in her weekly review. In his … Continue reading →

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Sacha Chats with Harry R. Schwartz

Posted on 2014-08-12 by jcs

Sacha Chua has posted the latest in her series of Emacs Chats. This time it’s with Harry R. Schwartz. Schwartz is one of the organizers of Emacs NYC, which holds meetings and produces videos of the talks that the participants … Continue reading →

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Moving from Scrivener to Org-mode

Posted on 2014-08-11 by jcs

The estimable Org-mode maintainer Bastien Guerry tweeted a link to an interesting thread on the Org-mode mailing list. Nice #emacs #orgmode thread: "A gentle introduction to Emacs & Org-mode?" http://t.co/dO5F0kHCGE — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) July 27, 2014 The thread concerned … Continue reading →

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Gnus Guide

Posted on 2014-08-08 by jcs

For a long time, I’ve had the urge to move my email processing to Emacs. That would make Email one more function that I wouldn’t have to leave Emacs to handle. I have found three candidate packages for this: mew, … Continue reading →

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Org Mode Links to Git Commits

Posted on 2014-08-07 by jcs

One of the nice things about writing with the Org-mode mark-up language is the ability to easily add links to external sources such as HTTP links or mail messages. But what about linking to a Git commit? Happily, there’s a … Continue reading →

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Generating Graphs with Org and Dot

Posted on 2014-08-06 by jcs

When I want to draw graph-like pictures I almost always use dot from the graphviz suite. The language is simple and it’s easy to generate it programmatically. Still, I don’t do it every day and so I always have to … Continue reading →

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The Emacs ‍Scratch‍ Buffer

Posted on 2014-08-05 by jcs

Many people consider the Emacs *‍scratch*‍ buffer mysterious. This is true even though, by default, it includes a message telling you what to use it for. I like it and use it often. Others, not so much. Despite that default … Continue reading →

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Emacs in a Year

Posted on 2014-08-04 by jcs

Chen Bin, who you may recognize from the Emacs and ErgoEmacs Google+ communities or from his blog, has an interesting essay on GitHub about how to master Emacs in a year. The essay is really the steps that Bin followed … Continue reading →