2017-12-19 Emacs news
Emacs Lisp: What’s in an Emacs Lambda (Reddit, Hacker News) hierarchy.el – also handy for JSON navigation display-until.el – Display a window or frame topmost in the frame stack until a condition or...
View ArticleSorting Org Mode lists using a sequence of regular expressions
I manually categorize Emacs News links into an Org unordered list, and then I reorganize the list by using M-S-up (org-shiftmetaup) and M-S-down (org-shiftmetadown). I decide to combine or split...
View Article2017-12-26 Emacs news
Emacs Lisp: Best simple package source code to learn from? (Reddit) New Package: rsw-elisp.el – Interactively evaluate regions, preceding variable definitions and quoted sexpressions (Reddit) Patch to...
View Article2018-01-01 Emacs news
Org Mode: OrgMode E07S05: Goal setting & Goal Tracking (Reddit) OrgStruct is dead. Long live Orgalist. (Reddit) file org-capture item under existing heading if it exists ANN: org-kanban (help...
View Article2018-01-09 Emacs news
Emacs Lisp: Learn some elisp Emacs development: Add new Tramp connection method “owncloud” Add new variable to force new-style backquote interpretation Org Mode: Spacemacs configuration in a...
View Article2018-01-15 Emacs news
Emacs Lisp: Emacs Tutorial 2 – A few words on elisp (10:53) Play.el: Run Emacs in a sandboxed HOME directory (Reddit) An Oldie but Goodie: mc-hide-unmatched-lines-mode Emacs development: Smtpmail:...
View Article2018-01-23 Emacs news
Emacs Lisp: Subscribe! Announcements for the borg package manager What packages did you write for yourself but never published because you didn’t think other people would need/want them? Emacs...
View Article2018-01-29 Emacs news
Emacs Lisp: ihsec – Switching emacs configs on the fly (11:11) 2 ways to anchor a regex in elisp Make a copy of saved files to another directory How can I improve startup time despite many packages?...
View ArticleOrg Mode: Inserting a function definition
While nudging jcs to add a definition of jcs-insert-url to the blog post about Making Things Easier, I realized it might be handy to have a quick function for inserting a function definition without...
View Article2018-02-05 Emacs news
Emacs Lisp: Emacs Lisp is Fun? elcontext Emacs development: Properly integrate modules into the loading process Fix handling of modifier keys on macOS Discussion about confusable characters in Emacs...
View Article2018-02-12 Emacs news
Emacs Lisp: More emacs configuration tweaks (2016; hat tip to Irreal for the link) What are the best places to learn about writing performant elisp? (Reddit) Emacs development: Buttery Smooth Emacs...
View Article2018-02-19 Emacs news
Emacs Lisp: Emacs adds support for a second (read earlier) init file (Reddit, NEWS) Options for Structured Data in Emacs Lisp Exterminate Magit buffers Emacs development: Writing Emacs’s dynamic...
View Article2018-02-26 Emacs news
Emacs Lisp: Navigate yaml using emacs-libyaml dynamic module (Reddit) Emacs Lisp Lambda Expressions Are Not Self-Evaluating (HN) Emacs development: Recent improvement of cquery and emacs-cquery...
View Article2018-03-04 Emacs news
Emacs Lisp: elisp-def finds local and global elisp definitions, even with macros! (Reddit) Alex Schroeder: Emacs Packages Emacs development: Emacs JIT Calling Convention – further adventures in Emacs...
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Using Org Mode, LaTeX, Beamer, and Medibang Paint to make a children’s book
Story It’s time to make a smoothie! I pour blueberries into the blender. Mama adds hemp seeds. I add spinach. Mama blends it all with some water. I peel and add a banana. I add some yogurt. Mama...
View Article2018-03-12 Emacs news
Emacs development: RMS on which improvements to Emacs would be “truly useful” (Reddit) Long discussion on variable-width font indentation Allow toggling Grep command abbreviation, and rename related...
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Making an 8-page 7″x4.25″ captioned photo book with Org Mode and LaTeX
Here’s another technique that makes a simple photo book. I wanted to make an 8-page book that could be printed 4 pages to a 8.5″x14″ sheet (duplex, flip along the short edge), with a final page size...
View Article2018-03-19 Emacs news
Emacs Lisp: Modern Emacs Lisp development question (Reddit) Another Literate Emacs Config in Org-Mode (Reddit) Emacs development: Heads-up: Emacs 26.1 RC1 Discussion of overlay tree bramch...
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Labeling toy storage bins with photos and text using ImageMagick and org-babel
I wanted to make labels for A-‘s new toy storage: three low Trofast drawer frames all along the wall. I liked how early childhood drop-in centres labeled their shelves with both pictures and text. That...
View Article2018-03-26 Emacs news
Emacs Lisp: Human-readable filesizes EmacsWiki ELPA (Reddit) Emacs development: webkit-color-picker – Color picker widget using child frames (Emacs 26) (Reddit) lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el: New...
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