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Excerpts from a conversation with John Wiegley (johnw) and Adam Porter...
Adam Porter (alphapapa) reached out to John Wiegley (johnw) to ask about his current Org Mode workflow. John figured he'd experiment with a braindumping/brainstorming conversation about Org Mode in...
View Article2024-11-11 Emacs news
Upcoming events: EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/304301988/ Sat Nov 16 1100 America/Los_Angeles M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Nov 20...
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Yay Emacs 7: Using word timing in caption editing with subed-word-data
Video not supported. Thumbnail:Download the video When I work with video captions, I often want to split long captions using subed-split-subtitle. If my player is somewhere in the current subtitle,...
View ArticleChecking caption timing by skimming with Emacs Lisp or JS
Sometimes automatic subtitle timing tools like Aeneas can get confused by silences, extraneous sounds, filler words, mis-starts, and text that I've edited out of the raw captions for easier...
View ArticleChanging Org Mode underlines to the HTML mark element
Apparently, HTML has a mark element that is useful for highlighting. ox-html.el in Org Mode doesn't seem to export that yet. I don't use _ to underline things because I don't want that confused with...
View Article2024-11-18 Emacs news
Emacs 30: What are your favorite changes in emacs 30? Upcoming events: M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Nov 20 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto...
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Updating my audio braindump workflow to take advantage of WhisperX
I get word timestamps for free when I transcribe with WhisperX, so I can skip the Aeneas alignment step. That means I can update my previous code for handling audio braindumps . Breaking the...
View ArticleRemove filler words at the start and upcase the next word
[2024-11-21 Thu]: Fixed the second filler words regexp, and make it work at the start of lines too. Thanks to @arialdo@mastodon.online for the feedback! Like many people, I tend to use "So", "And",...
View Article2024-11-25 Emacs news
Upcoming events: Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Nov 27 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300...
View Article2024-12-02 Emacs news
Emacs 30: New stuff in Emacs 30 (July 2024, @frodjo@mastodon.social) Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Thu Dec 5 0830...
View Article2024-12-09 Emacs news
Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Dec 11 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700...
View Article2024-12-16 Emacs news
Help wanted: Org Mode requests: [RFC] The best way to choose an "action" at point: context-menu-mode, transient, which-key or embark? (was: Fwd: Org-cite: Replace basic follow-processor with transient...
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subed.el: Tweaking subtitle times
When subtitle times are too far off from the video or audio, people start worrying if their video has frozen or jumped ahead. It's good to keep subtitles roughly in time with the audio. For EmacsConf,...
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Help wanted: Org Mode requests: [FR] Allow SPC to scroll todo/tag selection menu - for users with huge accessible fonts (was: Transient: accessibility problems for users who need to use large fonts)...
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I came across Ruby Video on Hacker News and thought it was a good idea, particularly the topic view. I mentioned it in a toot and that seemed to strike a chord in the #emacs community there, so I...
View ArticleEmacsConf 2024 notes
[2024-12-28 Sat]: Added talk and Q&A count, added note about BBB max simultaneous users, added note about BBB, added thanks The videos have been uploaded, thank-you notes have been sent, and the...
View ArticleLinking to Org Babel source in a comment, and making that always use file links
I've been experimenting with these default header args for Org Babel source blocks. (setq org-babel-default-header-args '((:session . "none") (:results . "drawer replace") (:comments . "link") ;; add...
View Article2024-12-30 Emacs news
Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Jan 3 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin -...
View ArticleEditing videos with Emacs and subed-record.el
I want to document more of my Minecraft adventures with A+. Video is a natural way to do this. It builds on her familiarity with the tutorials and streams she enjoys watching. I set up OBS on her...
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Using image-dired to browse the latest screenshots from multiple directories
Since A+ and I play lots of Minecraft together, I figured it's a good opportunity to slowly get her into the idea of documenting learning. Besides, I can always practise it myself. Screenshots are...
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