Tag Archives: Org-mode

Literate Programming with Org Mode

Posted on 2018-07-13 by jcs

Justin Worthe had a nice addition to the articles on literate programming and Org mode. It is, I think, a pretty balanced treatment of the benefits and disadvantages of literate programming. On the one hand you have the usual advantages … Continue reading →

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Org Unfolding Tip

Posted on 2018-07-07 by jcs

From Thierry Stoehr we have this excellent tip on unhiding all the data in an Org file: For #Emacs #Orgmode users: this is a pearl! (and so easy to remember!) https://t.co/TKSGSCCnGG — Thierry Stoehr (@ThierryStoehr) June 20, 2018

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Zamansky 50: Presentations

Posted on 2018-07-01 by jcs

Mike Zamansky is getting ready to give a presentation at a professional conference. As always, this means preparing a slide deck and Zamansky is faced with deciding how to do it. In the past, he’s described reveal.js as his go … Continue reading →

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Literate Programming Using Org Babel

Posted on 2018-06-26 by jcs

Gregory Stein has an excellent post on Literate Programming with Org-Mode. Despite the title, it’s really more about leveraging Org Babel to create literate documents that contain notes, code, and results. This is, of course, the same area that Howard … Continue reading →

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Howard Abrams on Capturing Data to the Current Task

Posted on 2018-06-25 by jcs

Howard Abrams has a very nice post in which he talks about how he uses Org capture in his workflow. Most of us are familiar with Org capture and the use of templates to store data in some Org file. … Continue reading →

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Org Mode is Awesome

Posted on 2018-06-10 by jcs

I’ve written about John Kitchin’s Org mode is awesome video before (back in 2014) but recently Xah Lee tweeted about it and I watched it again. It’s a great video and worth mentioning again for anyone who hasn’t already seen … Continue reading →

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Using Request to Download Financial Data

Posted on 2018-05-25 by jcs

Sebastian Schweer has a nice post on using the

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Reproducible Research for Management

Posted on 2018-05-23 by jcs

The utility of reproducible research and literate programming methods in engineering and science is clear and well known by now but we seldom consider how the techniques might be extended to other disciplines. If, however, you think about what you’re … Continue reading →

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Python Doctests, Literate Programming, and Org Mode

Posted on 2018-05-21 by jcs

If you’re a Python programmer and like to have built-in tests for your functions, you probably know about doctest, a way of embedding one or more tests in the docstring of a Python function. Normally, they don’t do anything but … Continue reading →

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Capturing Code Snippets

Posted on 2018-05-19 by jcs

The other day in my post about Alain Lafon’s talk on playing Emacs like an instrument—you have watched that video, haven’t you?—I mentioned that one of the things I picked up was an Org capture template for capturing code snippets. … Continue reading →

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