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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 1 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. Check this event page for details, live stream, and Q&A. =) The post Emacs Chat: Iannis Zannos – Emacs and...
View ArticleEmacs Chat: Tom Marble
Emacs Chat: Tom Marble – Invoicing with Org and LaTeX; Clojure Guest: Tom Marble Tom Marble’s doing this pretty nifty thing with Org Mode, time tracking, LaTeX, and invoice generation. Also, Clojure +...
View ArticleEmacs beginner resources
Sometimes it’s hard to remember what it’s like to be a beginner, so I’m experimenting with asking other people to help me with this. =) I asked one of my assistants to look for beginner tutorials for...
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Emacs ABCs: A is for Apropos
Sometimes one gets the strangest ideas. I’ve had this kicking around in my brain for a few weeks. Since you read and re-read books to kids endless times anyway, why not learn more yourself along the...
View ArticleEmacs Chat: Jānis Mancēvičs
Chatting with Jānis Mancēvičs about literate programming, Unity game development, and code folding. Want just the audio? Get it from archive.org: MP3 Check out Emacs Chat for more interviews like this....
View ArticleReinvesting time and money into Emacs
I received a wonderful token of appreciation from someone who found my Emacs posts useful. It got me thinking: what would it be like if I made Emacs a large part of my life’s work, and how can I invest...
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How Org Mode helps me deal with an ever-growing backlog
If you’re like me, you probably have a to-do list several miles long. I like thinking of this as the backlog from agile programming. It’s a list of tasks that I could choose to work on, but I haven’t...
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Reflecting on 10 episodes of Emacs Chats
I’ve posted ten Emacs Chat episodes so far, and the transcripts for the most recent ones are coming soon. These are hour-long conversations with Emacs geeks about how they got started with Emacs, why...
View ArticleThinking about my TODO keywords
It’s been twelve years since David Allen published Getting Things Done, with its geek-friendly flowcharts and processes for handling tasks in an interrupt-driven life. The way I manage my tasks is...
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Getting R and ggplot2 to work in Emacs Org Mode Babel blocks; also, tracking...
I started tracking the number of tasks I had in Org Mode so that I could find out if my TODO list tended to shrink or grow. It was easy to write a function in Emacs Lisp to count the number of tasks in...
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2048 in Emacs, and colours too
While browsing through M-x list-packages, I noticed that there was a new MELPA package that implemented the 2048 game in Emacs. I wrote the following code to colorize it. Haven’t tested the higher...
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