Tag Archives: Org-mode

The other day, I wrote that you never stop learning Emacs. There’s always something new to learn. I just saw a post that reminded me that—at least for me—you never stop relearning Emacs either. The post asked about why indentation … Continue reading →

As you all know, I’m not much for editor bling even though I care immensely what my finished text looks like. Still, I did take to heart Charles Choi’s recommendation to use proportional fonts for prose. The idea is that … Continue reading →

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 →

Emacs Elements has a short video on sparse trees. The TL;DR is that sparse trees give you a method of filtering an Org file to show only the information that you’re interested in. The information can be random text, a … Continue reading →

I’ve been writing in Org mode for a long time. Every bit of Irreal began life as an Org doc and I have a huge collection of private documents that are also written in Org markup. The killer feature of … Continue reading →

Eli Zaretskii writes to tell us that Emacs 29.3 has been released. It’s the first time in a long time—or maybe ever—that I can recall Emacs releasing a security update. It’s an editor, after all, what security issues could it … Continue reading →

I’ve had this in my queue for a while but I wanted to try it out before I wrote about it. Sadly, I just haven’t had the time and probably won’t in the immediate future. Therefore, I’m writing about it … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, justrajdeep asks an interesting question: If you have several Babel source blocks in an Org document, is there any way to execute all the blocks and get their data with a single command. I often … Continue reading →

Most Org users know that there are built in functions that can do things like sum some or all of the entries in a row or column of a table. The set of functions is actually much richer than simply … Continue reading →

Nicolas Martyanoff has a nifty post that discusses some tips for dealing with Org headlines. There are actually three tips but I adopted only two of them. The first involves what happens when you type Ctrl+Return on a headline. By … Continue reading →