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Org-Babel Examples

I haven’t written about using Babel with Org mode for a long time but it’s something I use everyday. Most of those uses are trivial but the full power is there when I need it. I can produce summary data … Continue reading

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Inhibiting Babel Evaluate Confirmation On The Mode Line

In Setting the Babel Evaluate Confirm Status, I wrote about Org-mode’s Babel asking for confirmation before executing a code block and why it’s sometimes convenient to turn that behavior off. In the post, I presented a simple Emacs Lisp function, … Continue reading

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Setting the Babel Evaluate Confirm Status

Because Babel provides a facility to execute arbitrary code, it presents a security risk. Code blocks are evaluated when a document is exported as well as when a user explicitly asks for evaluation by typing C-c C-c in the block. … Continue reading

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Calling Babel From A Table

While I was reading the Lisp Idioms article that I blogged about yesterday, it occurred to me that the first example on accumulating a list presents an excellent opportunity to talk some more about Babel and how to use it … Continue reading

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R and Babel

I decided to accept my own challenge so I downloaded and installed R. It’s a huge system with a lot to learn but I did manage to figure out enough to generate some basic statistics and a couple graphs. I’ll … Continue reading

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A Comparison Of Markdown Editors

Although I find it hard to believe, the Minions assure me that there are still people who prefer writing in Markdown rather than Org-mode. I don’t want to relitigate that issue here. If you’re interested in why no right thinking … Continue reading

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More On SQL For Arbitrary Data

In response to my recent post on Making Ad Hoc SQL Tables From Org Tables, commenter Fritz Grabo points to another, more general system, for doing the same thing. As Grabo points out, the method depends on the external package … Continue reading

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Making Ad Hoc SQL Tables From Org Tables

This is the coolest thing. Charles Choi—who contributions I’ve written about several times—has a really surprising post on turning Org tables into ad hoc SQL tables. There are a couple of things that make this a worthwhile endeavor: It’s easy … Continue reading

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PlantUML and Org-mode

AbstProcDo, like me, is a terrible artist. Sometimes, though, we need to add a diagram to our documentation, report, or Blog post. I usually use Graphviz or, when I’m in Troff mode, Pic for this. But these aren’t the only … Continue reading

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DALL-E in Org Mode

If you follow Alvaro Ramirez’s work, you’ll soon discover that his usual procedure with a project is to start with a good idea and then keep pushing it to improve it and add new features. A case in point is … Continue reading

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