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Emacs: Strike through headlines for DONE tasks in Org
I wanted a quick way to visually distinguish DONE tasks from tasks I still need to do. This handy snippet from the Emacs Org-mode mailing list does the trick by striking through the headlines for DONE...
View ArticleEmacs Org: Display a subset of tasks by context
I wanted to get a quick preview of my top three tasks by context. Since org-tags-view didn’t seem to have a built-in way to limit the number of displayed items, I used defadvice to add my own. Here’s...
View ArticleEmacs Org: Display projects with a few subtasks in the agenda view
I wanted a view that showed projects with a few subtasks underneath them. That way, I could quickly scan my projects and make a little progress on each of them. Here’s a sample of the output showing a...
View ArticleEmacs Org: Task-related keyboard shortcuts for the agenda
I really love the way you can tweak Emacs’ keyboard shortcuts and functionality to fit the way you want to work. Here are three keyboard shortcuts I’ve added to my Org agenda to make it even easier to...
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Rediscovering Emacs features, or what to do after you get carried away...
A kid in a candy store – that’s me with M-x list-packages, EmacsWiki pages, Planet Emacsen, and other sources of Emacs goodness. Because Emacs has so much functionality and people keep adding stuff to...
View ArticleEmacs Chat with Avdi Grimm (Org-mode, Ruby, etc.)
Update 2013-03-16: Get the MP3 or Ogg Vorbis files, or listen to them on archive.org! Thanks to Matthew Darling’s comment on my post about code coaching, I came across Avdi Grimm’s work with pair...
View ArticleGot Emacs questions? Let’s try Emacs tutoring / pair programming!
Getting started with Emacs? Need help tweaking your Emacs configuration? Curious about the tools and packages out there? Want to learn more about Emacs Lisp? Working on some open source Emacs code?...
View ArticleLearn Emacs Lisp by reading Emacs Lisp
Learning Emacs Lisp can help you really tweak your Emacs environment to fit you, saving time, smoothening out frustrations, and making things easier. Reading code is an essential part of learning how...
View ArticleEmacs chat: Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson
I got to chat with Thomas about Emacs and picking up configuration snippets from EmacsWiki. He’s so lucky – he gets to work with lots of other Emacs geeks! =) Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson – Emacs chat from...
View ArticleEmacs Chat: Carsten Dominik
In which Carsten shares how he got started with Emacs, the joys of Calc, and other cool things. =) Carsten Dominik from Sacha Chua on Vimeo. Want just the audio? Get it from archive.org: MP3, Ogg...
View ArticleEmacs: Use function keys for custom keyboard shortcuts
Quick tip since it was an aha! moment for some people on the #emacs IRC channel. You can define keyboard shortcuts that are sequences of keys. This is how Emacs can have keyboard shortcuts like C-c...
View ArticleGetting ready for the Emacs Conference
I’m in London for Emacs Conference 2013 (squee!!), which is tomorrow. John Wiegley and I are starting the day off with a whirlwind tour of Emacs’ past, present, and future. The program looks excellent,...
View ArticleAfter Emacs Conf 2013; ideas for Sunday and Monday
Emacs Conf 2013 was a blast! It was super awesome meeting so many Emacs geeks in person, and the talks were fascinating. I’ve posted my sketchnotes and will be revising them to make them easier to...
View ArticleBrainstorming ways to help build the Emacs community
John Wiegley and I had lots of fun brainstorming ways to help move Emacs forward, particularly as I’m carving out more of my time to focus on Emacs. Here’s what we talked about: A rough outline of...
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Emacs Conference 2013 Sketchnotes (also, PDF!)
I cleaned them up a little and packaged them as a PDF for your viewing convenience: http://j.mp/emacsconf2013sketches Here they are individually, too! Click on an image to view the full-sized version,...
View ArticleEmacs Conference 2013 videos
Here are the Emacs Conference 2013 videos! http://j.mp/emacs2013videos Unfortunately, our keynote wasn’t livestreamed, but I managed to record the audio so that you can hear what John Wiegley and I...
View ArticleHow to present using Org-mode in Emacs
You can do pretty much everything in Emacs, so why not give presentations too? Org-mode is an extensible outliner and Swiss Army knife for the Emacs text editor. Because it’s a great way to organize...
View ArticleEmacs chat intro
It turns out to be lots of fun to talk to other people about Emacs. You pick up all sorts of tips and interesting ideas that way. One of the reasons why I do these chats is to help people get a sense...
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How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners
I thought I’d draw a one-page guide for some of the things that people often ask me about or that would help people learn Emacs (and enjoy it). You can click on the image for a larger version that you...
View ArticleEmacs Chat: Bastien Guerry
In this chat, Bastien tells stories about getting started in Emacs, reading his mail/news/blogs in Gnus, and hacking his life with Org. =) Enjoy! Want just the audio? You can get MP3s or OGG from...
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