Tag Archives: Org-mode

The SF Emacs Meetup group has a video of one of their recent meetings featuring talks by four Org-mode users. The middle two talks, Tikhon Elvis on reveal.js and Jeff Tull on Org Babel, are elementary overviews. They’ll be useful … Continue reading →

Here’s a short Org-mode tip that, although quite old, I just learned about. Suppose you want to export an Org subtree but you want only the contents and not the header. This emacs-reddit question, which alerted me to the solution, … Continue reading →

Bastien tweets that he’s just released Org-mode 9.2.6: I released #emacs #orgmode 9.2.6, a bugfix release. Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) September 4, 2019 It’s a bug release so there’s no big changes, just a bit of bolt tightening.

I’ve written before about the idea of combining your dotfiles into a single Org file and then tangling them out to their proper locations. That’s a nice solution because it provides an easy way to document what you’re doing and … Continue reading →

I’ve released #emacs #orgmode 9.2.5, a bugfix release. Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) August 1, 2019 Bastien says it’s a bug fix release so if you’re having any problems with Org you should consider updating.

Lots of bloggers are electing to generate static sites instead of relying on a CMS like Blogger or WordPress. It’s an attractive option and one that I would probably pursue if I didn’t have so much invested in WordPress. All … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs Stack Exchange, shackra asks how he can make the RESULTS block of an Org babel SRC block executable by the shell. In other words, he wants to build a shell script in one block and be … Continue reading →

Many people can’t imagine life without a shiny, GUI-based email client. The idea of using a text based client would never occur to them and some probably don’t even know there are such things. Others of us don’t want to … Continue reading →

Last year I wrote about Daniel Gomez’s post on writing a PhD thesis with Org-mode. Gomez’s post was an excellent exposition of the workflow that he used to write his thesis using Org. One of the most useful features was … Continue reading →

Josh Rollins has a very nice tip on a feature of Org-mode capture templates that I didn’t know about. It turns out that you can store a capture template in a file. It’s not immediately clear what that means exactly … Continue reading →