Tag Archives: Org-mode

Mike Zamansky has another video up. It’s number 23 in his Using Emacs Series and is part 1 of a sequence videos about Org capture. In this first installment, he covers the mechanics of Org capture: how to configure it, … Continue reading →

If you’d like to know what time the sun will rise and set in your area, it turns out to be simple to add it to your Org mode agenda. Jon-Michael Deldin shows how. The ability to display them is … Continue reading →

This really blew me away when I saw it. It’s an example of a simple use of Org Babel to translate phrases from English to Mandarin. Of course, all the heavy lifting is done by the Python library translate but … Continue reading →

There’s a bug fix release of Org Mode out. #emacs #orgmode 9.0.1 (a bugfix release) is now out. Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) November 18, 2016

Over at the Emacs reddit, tiktaaliki asks how he can put his init.el file in Org format. As it turns out, I learned some really useful things from the post. First off, the easy answer to that question is to … Continue reading →

Marco Wahl posted a gist that saves an Org file structure as a series of directories and files. I have no idea what I’d use this for but it’s pretty neat.

If you do your writing in Org mode and like to maintain a running word count—especially useful for professional writers and students assigned an \(n\) word paper—Angelo Basile has a nice tip on how to install a word count function … Continue reading →

If you’re a Python user and like to put Python snippets in source blocks in an Org mode file, John Kitchin has some very nice enhancements for you. Kitchin, as Irreal readers surely know by now, is a Chemical Engineering … Continue reading →

One of the nice things about Org mode is that “You’ll never have to write HTML again.” That’s not quite true, of course, but it mostly is. Just write in Org markdown, including tables, and then export it to HTML … Continue reading →

John Kitchin has a very nice post and video demonstrating some of the new link features in Org Mode 9. It’s now easy to create custom link types and control the display, look, and action of the resulting links. You … Continue reading →