Emacs kaizen: ace-jump-zap lets you use C-u to zap to any character
This entry is part of 2 in the series Emacs Kaizen I’m perpetually using M-z to zap-to-char and then typing the character back in, because I really should be using zap-up-to-char instead. But if I’m...
View ArticleOrg Mode publishing workflow for Sketched Books collection
I want to publish things in chunks that are bigger and more logical than blog posts, so I’ve been experimenting with my ZIP/PDF/EPUB/MOBI workflow. Org Mode, Calibre, and Vagrant are terrific tools....
View ArticleEmacs kaizen: ace-isearch combines ace-jump-mode and helm-swoop
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Emacs Kaizen I’m a fan of clever little things that change their behaviour depending on what you’re doing while letting you mentally think of it as just one...
View ArticleThinking about how to make better use of Yasnippet in my Emacs workflow
One of the awesome things that Karl Voit demonstrated in this Emacs Chat was how he used YASnippet and Org Mode to quickly create projects with several related tasks, such as when organizing a group to...
View Article2015-01-09 Emacs Hangout
WELL. That was odd. Somehow the Google universe bifurcated and I spent the first forty minutes awkwardly talking to myself (braindumping Emacs tips) while the rest of the people in the Emacs hangout...
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Improving my evil plans for Emacs
Mwahahaha. My evil plans are yielding results, or at least that’s the impression I get because I’m learning so much from people who tell me that they found my blog helpful years ago. Even more recent...
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Developing Emacs micro-habits: Abbreviations and templates
When it comes to improving how you use Emacs, picking one small change and paying close attention seems to work well. Little things make a lot of difference, especially when frequently repeated over a...
View ArticleEmacs kaizen: helm-swoop and editing
This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Emacs Kaizen Continuing on this quest to focus on one tiny little workflow change at a time, so that I can get even better at using Emacs… One of those packages...
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Emacs microhabit: Switching windows with windmove, ace-window, and ace-jump
When I work with a large monitor, I often divide my Emacs frame (what most people call a window) into two or more windows (divisions within a frame). I like this more than dealing with multiple Emacs...
View ArticleGetting data from Org Mode tables
Org Mode is an amazingly powerful package for Emacs. I’ve been learning a lot about how to use its support for plain-text tables and spreadsheet calculations. Using table data in Emacs Lisp with the...
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Digital index piles with Emacs: Rapid categorization of Org Mode items
Somewhat daunted by the prospect of categorizing more than a hundred sketches and blog posts for my monthly review, I spent some time figuring out how to create the digital equivalent of sorting index...
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Let’s have a virtual Emacs conference in August – help me make it happen!
Why August? It’s an arbitrary target, although it tickles my brain to think about celebrating my 32nd birthday with awesome people sharing awesome ideas. (Incidentally, I’ll also reach the point of...
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Getting started with Emacs? Empty your cup
Frustrated with Emacs because you’re just not as productive as you are with your old editor? Copying configuration snippets from the Web in order to force it to work like what you’re used to, but...
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Continuous integration and code coverage for Emacs packages with Travis and...
Do you maintain an Emacs package hosted on Github? Would you like to get those confidence-building, bragging-rights-granting, other-developers-inspiring build: passing and coverage: 100% badges into...
View ArticleOrg Mode: Reusing the date from file-datetree-prompt
Update 2015-02-17: Or you can just use %t in your org-capture-templates, as Seth Mason points out in the comments… =) How can you get Org Mode to create and schedule entries within a year-month-day...
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Windows: Pipe output to your clipboard, or how I’ve been using NodeJS and Org...
It’s not easy being on Windows instead of one of the more scriptable operating systems out there, but I stay on it because I like the drawing programs. Cygwin and Vagrant fill enough gaps to keep me...
View ArticleExperimental Emacs Hangout 2015-02-18
In which we talked about Hydra (0:11), Helm (0:22), packages (0:25), Quelpa/quse-package (0:29), EWW (0:30), Org Mode (0:40), global-flycheck-mode (0:51), widget, TRAMP (1:15), conferences/hangouts...
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Emacs: Peer-to-peer coaching is easier when you use impatient-mode to share...
It turns out that coaching someone on Emacs goes really quickly when you can sit side by side. I’ve been helping Sean Miller with Org Mode and Emacs Lisp, with the condition that he has to turn those...
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Learn how to take notes more efficiently in Org Mode
How do you take notes in Org? Are you buried in a heap of uncategorized notes? Do you manually open the right file and navigate to the right heading? Are you mystified by org-capture and org-refile?...
View ArticleUsing Emacs to prepare files for external applications like Autodesk...
To make it easier to draw using Autodesk Sketchbook Pro on my laptop (a Lenovo X220 tablet PC), I’ve created several templates with consistent dot grids and sizes. Since I want to minimize typing when...
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