Tag Archives: Org-mode

A Tip on Editing Org Mode Table Formulas

Posted on 2014-10-16 by jcs

Rob Syme offers up a tip about editing org-mode table formulas that everyone should know but many don’t: TIL you can use C-c ' to edit #emacs #orgmode table formulae in a more spacious buffer. It will also highlight cells … Continue reading →

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Mathematics in a Blog Post

Posted on 2014-09-12 by jcs

As some of you know, I was trained as a mathematician. It’s odd, then, that my posts don’t have more mathematics in them. The reason for that is that this blog is mostly about computers and development so there’s not … Continue reading →

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Progress Indicator for Org-Mode Code Blocks

Posted on 2014-09-06 by jcs

Via Grant Rettke, here is a nice snippet of code from John Kitchin that gives a visual indication of when an org-mode code block is executing. It’s just a defadvice around org-babel-execute-src-block so it’s easy to modify to suit your … Continue reading →

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Generating an Org Link to a Web Page

Posted on 2014-08-19 by jcs

Recently, I was rereading Vivek Haldar’s post on the seven levels of Emacs proficiency and suddenly realized that I’d regressed in one aspect of my Emacs skills. Haldar says Up until now, you probably had one large Emacs window plus … Continue reading →

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Bastien Guerry on Org Mode

Posted on 2014-08-18 by jcs

Here’s a video by Bastien Guerry in which he talks about Emacs and Org Mode. Guerry, of course, is the maintainer of Org Mode and an interesting guy. Here at Irreal, we’ve mentioned him several times. Guerry begins by demonstrating … Continue reading →

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Org Mode Links

Posted on 2014-08-14 by jcs

Artur Malabarba has a great post on using Org-mode links to link to anything. It’s a hugely powerful facility that, as Malabarba says, is mostly unknown. Head over to Endless Parentheses for the details. I wasn’t going to write about … Continue reading →

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John Kitchin on Using Org Mode

Posted on 2014-08-13 by jcs

I’ve written about John Kitchin and his use of Emacs and org-mode several times (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Somehow I missed his latest contribution but Sacha Chua had my back and mentioned it in her weekly review. In his … Continue reading →

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Moving from Scrivener to Org-mode

Posted on 2014-08-11 by jcs

The estimable Org-mode maintainer Bastien Guerry tweeted a link to an interesting thread on the Org-mode mailing list. Nice #emacs #orgmode thread: "A gentle introduction to Emacs & Org-mode?" http://t.co/dO5F0kHCGE — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) July 27, 2014 The thread concerned … Continue reading →

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Org Mode Links to Git Commits

Posted on 2014-08-07 by jcs

One of the nice things about writing with the Org-mode mark-up language is the ability to easily add links to external sources such as HTTP links or mail messages. But what about linking to a Git commit? Happily, there’s a … Continue reading →

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Literate Programming and Your Emacs Configuration

Posted on 2014-07-10 by jcs

My init.el isn’t very organized. Partly, that’s because I like having a single file rather than the multitude of special configuration files that many of my Emacs heroes prefer. But even given that it’s a single file, it’s not really … Continue reading →

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