Tag Archives: Org-mode

Just a quickie today about something you may or may not care about. The reason you may not care about it is that it only affects the display of your local Org buffer—in particular, the display of tables. If you’re … Continue reading →

Torstein Krause Johansen has a short video up on how he makes his Org reports pretty. It’s really pretty simple and not at all mysterious: he writes his Org as usual but adds a bit of CSS. Of course, that … Continue reading →

Wade Mealing has an interesting article on using org-babel for the analysis of Linux kernel bugs. Mealing is a Red Hat engineer and involved with tracking down problems in the Linux kernel. He has a more-or-less fixed procedure for doing … Continue reading →

The title almost doesn’t make sense. After all, if you’re using Deft, you’re ipso facto using Emacs. James Dyer explains it in a way that makes sense. The TL;DR is that although he has been using Deft, he’s decided to … Continue reading →

Over at In a stream of Random Thoughts .. there’s an interesting post on using Emacs and Org mode for breaking down and estimating projects. The idea is that each new project is given an Org file that breaks down … Continue reading →

Just a quickie today courtesy of Mario Jason Braganza. Like most developers, Braganza is lazy in that good way that makes us search out ways to automate mundane tasks. Sometimes the automation doesn’t save much—or even any—time; it’s the principal … Continue reading →

Matus Goljer (Fuco1), whose work I’ve written about many times before, has an interesting post on his use of org-attach. The point of the post is a way of automating the finding of the Org headline that points to an … Continue reading →

If you do even a little writing in Org mode, you’ve almost certainly needed to occasionally typeset a word or sequence of words in a typewriter font. This, at least for me, comes up in two ways: I want to … Continue reading →

As long term Irreal readers know, I was trained as a mathematician and later became a computer software engineer so you’d think I’d be pretty good at generating plots: Nope. I’m terrible at it. My go to tool is Gnuplot, … Continue reading →

Over at (:doom discourse), Mediapathic has a very nice post on using (Doom) Emacs for prose writing. He’s a writer currently working on a book so he can offer firsthand experience. The unifying theme of his post is using the … Continue reading →