Tag Archives: Org-mode

Literate DevOps Video

I’ve mentioned Howard Abrams’ posts on Literate DevOps before. I think of it as a sort of reproducible research where you record the steps you use to create a deployment image including the code for each step. Abrams does this … Continue reading

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Org Mode and Pandoc

Bsag over at But She’s a Girl has a nice post on using Org mode and Pandoc. She says that she’s abandoned Markup in favor of Org mode because, among other things, it provides a rich set facilities for handling … Continue reading

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Org Mode Basics: Structuring Notes

Ben Maughan of the wonderful Pragmatic Emacs is writing a series of articles on Org mode. It’s a big subject, of course, so he’s starting off easy by talking about the feature that got him started: structured notes. He covers … Continue reading

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Converting from Word to Org

In a comment to one of my recent posts (1, 2) on converting from Org mode to Word doc format, Grant Rettke pointed me to an interesting Org Mode mailing list thread on how academics leverage Org mode for writing … Continue reading

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Karl Voit Lightning Talk

PIM export Karl Voit gave a lightning talk on Org Mode at the recent Chaos Computer Club Camp2015. Being a lightning talk is was pretty short. That’s too bad, I would have liked it to be a bit longer. The … Continue reading

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Repeated Links in Org Mode

The tireless Artur Malabarba has shown us how to make custom Org links for special purposes before (1, 2). Now he shows us how to implement Markdown links. The point here is that with Markdown, you define a link and … Continue reading

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Emacs for Professional Writers

Last time, I wrote about how Bin Chen writes in Org mode and exports the final document to Word doc format. Most engineers are spared the indignity of having to produce Word documents but if you’re a writer producing anything … Continue reading

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Installing Org 8.3

Org 8.3 is ready on Elpa so those of you installing it with the package manager can upgrade at your convenience. When I upgraded and reloaded Org I got the error message Invalid function: org-babel-header-args-safe-fn After some experimentation, I gave … Continue reading

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Org Mode 8.3!

#emacs #Orgmode 8.3 is now out. Enjoy! http://t.co/tqlT0u7B5T — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) August 5, 2015 As of my writing this, it hasn’t hit Elpa yet.

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Drag and Drop Into an Org Buffer

John Kitchin has a very nice post in which he presents at bit of Elisp that enables us to drag and drop images into an Org buffer. The code is short and easy to understand. I just cut it out … Continue reading

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