Tag Archives: Org-mode

Some of the most enjoyable programming I do is metaprogramming: writing code that writes code. Lisp macros are all about that, of course, but the idea is much more general. Often times the code that the code writes is just … Continue reading →

Ben Maughan has posted the fourth episode in his Org Mode Basics series. This time he talks about formatting the text in Org buffers and adding executable source code blocks to your Org file. The Org markup language is very … Continue reading →

Christophe Pouzat has posted the slides from his talk Seven Years of Reproducible Research: From R / Sweave to Org. As the title suggests, the talk covers Pouzat’s evolution from using R and Sweave for reproducible research to using Org … Continue reading →

Grant Rettke over at Wisdom and Wonder points to an interesting discussion on the Org mailing list about writing a book in Org mode. The thread starts with Vikas Rawal’s announcement of his book, Ending Malnutrition: from commitment to action … Continue reading →

Andrew Caird over at For the Love of Suffering has a nice post on how to use Python and Org mode to visualize data. As usual with this sort of thing, Caird leverages Org Babel to integrate a Python script … Continue reading →

As I wrote previously, Ben Maughan is writing a tutorial on Org mode basics. He continues the series with a very basic introduction to tables in Org mode. This post covers just the very basics like how to enter tables, … Continue reading →

Erik Clarke over at pleiotropy has a couple of nice posts on using Org mode as a lab notebook. The first post lays out his requirements for a digital lab notebook. As you can probably guess, these include Permanence Citations … Continue reading →

Part of the reason that I moved Irreal from Blogger to WordPress was that I wanted to use org2blog to write and publish my posts directly from Emacs. As a result, every post on Irreal started life as—and is maintained … Continue reading →