Emacs: 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...
View ArticleEmacs 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 / A visual tutorial
UPDATE 2013-09-23: New, much larger version – see below! UPDATE 2013-06-01: Here’s a zoomable, pannable version thanks to MapLib! Here’s version 2 (September 2013). You can print this at 16.5″x10.75″...
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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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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