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Animating things in Emacs
Some years ago, I came across M-x animate-birthday-present (and therefore animate-string and animate-sequence) while reading through the output of M-x apropos-command RET . RET, which lists all of the...
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How I use Emacs Org Mode for my weekly reviews
Summary: I use a custom Emacs Lisp function to extract my upcoming tasks and logged tasks from my Org agenda, and I combine that with data from QuantifiedAwesome.com using a JSON interface. I use Emacs...
View ArticleEmacs Chat: Sacha Chua (with Bastien Guerry)
UPDATE 2013/07/08: Now with very long transcript! (Read the full blog post to find it.) After I chatted with Bastien Guerry about Emacs, he asked me if he could interview me for the same series. =) So...
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Emacs: How I organize my Org files
Michael Jones wanted to know how I organized my Org Mode files. Here’s how I do things! Org Mode for Emacs is an outliner that lets you add a little structure to plain text files. Not only can you use...
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Helping someone get started with Emacs and Org Mode through Org2Blog and...
Update 2013-08-30: By the way, here’s the link to Christopher Olah’s first post using org2blog. Neato! The LaTeX logo, typeset with LaTeX (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Org2Blog is an awesome geek-friendly...
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How to learn Emacs keyboard shortcuts (a visual tutorial for newbies)
Emacs keyboard shortcuts often mystify beginners because they’re not the same as the shortcuts for other applications (C-w instead of C-x for cutting text, etc.), and they’re long (what do you mean,...
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When I blog with Emacs and when I blog with other tools
English: org-mode logo: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.php#unicorn (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I would love to be able to write all of my blog posts within Emacs. I like the outline tools and simple...
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Using Emacs to figure out where I need to improve in order to type faster
I’ve been thinking about how to type faster than 110wpm, and digging into the specific factors that I could improve. In particular, I wanted to get a sense of: my theoretical top speed whether...
View ArticleEmacs Org Mode Customization Survey
Org Mode is an outlining and TODO tool for Emacs. Except it’s so much more than that, since people have written all sorts of code to make it do way more than an outliner (or even a text editor!)...
View ArticleEmacs Chat: Magnar Sveen (Emacs Rocks)
UPDATE: Want just the audio? MP3 / OGG Here are the notes from my chat with Magnar Sveen, the creator of the Emacs Rocks screencast series and a number of other great Emacs resources. Enjoy! 0m48s...
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Some tips for learning Org Mode for Emacs
When I learn something new, I always find myself wishing there was some kind of map to help me figure out where to start, how to track progress, and what to learn next. So now I’m making them. Here’s...
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New free/pay what you want resource: Sketchnotes 2013; also, Emacs Dired rocks
Get your copy of the Sketchnotes 2013 collection Since people found my collection of sketchnotes from 2012 handy, I’ve put together a categorized collection of sketchnotes from 2013 as well. Enjoy! =)...
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Drafting a baby-steps guide to managing your tasks with Org Mode for Emacs
Org mode for Emacs is powerful and flexible, which can make it intimidating for newcomers. After helping several people with essentially the same problem–an unmanageably large heap of tasks–I thought...
View ArticleEmacs, Evernote (through enscript.exe), and Org links
I’ve given myself permission to spend an hour or two tickling my brain with various technical ideas and prototypes every day. This means Emacs geekery is going to turn up on my blog more often. =)...
View ArticleEmacs Basics: Using the mouse
This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Emacs Basics You can download the MP3 from archive.org. Transcript: I’m Sacha Chua and this is an Emacs Basics episode on using the mouse. The best way to use...
View ArticleEmacs tweaks: Export Org checkboxes using UTF-8 symbols
UPDATE 2014-03-28: Newer versions of org have the org-html-checkbox-type variable, which you can set to unicode. Use M-x customize-variable org-html-checkbox-type to see if you have it. This snippet...
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Emacs Basics: Call commands by name with M-x (with tips for better completion...
This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Emacs BasicsEmacs has way too many keyboard shortcuts to memorize. Fortunately, you can call commands by name by typing M-x and the name of the command. M-...
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More Emacs drawings: Dired, moving around
This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series A Visual Guide to EmacsDired is the Emacs directory editor. You can get to it with C-x C-f (find-file) if you specify a directory. C-x d (dired) works too. Dired...
View ArticleEmacs Basics: Customizing Emacs
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Emacs BasicsHello, I’m Sacha Chua, and this is an Emacs Basics video on customizing Emacs. Emacs is incredibly flexible. You can tweak it to do much more than...
View ArticleEmacs Chat: Iannis Zannos – Emacs and SuperCollider
Emacs! Music! Iannis Zannos shares how Emacs can be used for all sorts of awesomeness with Org Mode and SuperCollider. Check this event page for details and comments =) The post Emacs Chat: Iannis...
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