Tag Archives: Org-mode

Reproducible Science

Posted on 2012-02-26 by jcs

Ars Technica has an interesting article up entitled Nature Editorial: If you want reproducible science, the software needs to be open source. I’ve written a couple of times about reproducible research and how Emacs and Org Mode make it particularly … Continue reading →

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Multiple Editors And Markdown

Posted on 2012-02-25 by jcs

I’ve written many, many times about how much I love writing in Org mode. I write a plain text file that I can then export to HTML, LaTeX, or several other formats. I can even, theoretically, write an Org mode … Continue reading →

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More Org Header Searching

Posted on 2012-02-08 by jcs

The little Org-mode header searching functions that I wrote about in Finding Org Headers And Links turned out to be pretty useful so I added another one. This function is like find-all-org-headers except that it limits the search to those … Continue reading →

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A Short Coda To Yesterday’s Post

Posted on 2012-02-07 by jcs

Yesterday I wrote about Finding Org Headers And Links and gave some Elisp functions to aid in searching for them. Today, my bank statement came and I entered information from the statement into my Org tax file. The tax file … Continue reading →

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Org Mode Video

Posted on 2012-02-07 by jcs

Looking through the ErgoEmacs Google+ Page, I found this post about Kurt Schwehr’s video on Org Mode. It’s a nice video that covers some of the basics of Org Mode and Babel. It’s just shy of 30 minutes so he … Continue reading →

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Finding Org Headers And Links

Posted on 2012-02-06 by jcs

Today I was looking through Xah Lee’s ErgoEmacs Google+ Page (there’s a ton of interesting stuff there—you should check it out) when I came across this post in which someone asks how to find links in an Org mode buffer. … Continue reading →

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Fontifying Code Buffers In Emacs Org Mode

Posted on 2012-01-30 by jcs

I just learned a nice trick from the Org Mode Mailing List. By default code blocks in Org-mode buffers are colored gray and don’t show the fontification the way it does in a normal programming buffer. But if you add … Continue reading →

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Journal Article On Org Mode

Posted on 2012-01-28 by jcs

The Journal of Statistical Software has a nice paper by Carsten Dominik (the creator of Org mode), Eric Schulte, Dan Davison, and Thomas Dye about Org Mode and its use in Literate Programming and Reproducible Research. I really like the … Continue reading →

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Blogging With Emacs—Another Method

Posted on 2012-01-16 by jcs

Today, someone on Hacker News pointed to an old post on Blogging With Emacs over at Work In Progress. Since some of my readers had expressed an interest in how I use Emacs and Org-mode to blog, I thought there … Continue reading →

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Org Version 7.8.02 Is OUT

Posted on 2011-12-13 by jcs

There’s a new version of Org mode available. You can download it from here. The download page also has instructions for cloning the Git repository so that you can stay as up-to-date as you like. The main changes appear to … Continue reading →

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