Tag: Emacs

This page explains how to configure exported tables borders either with the variable org-html-table-default-attributes, which is ignored with HTML5 export, or properties.

The default table export doesn’t include borders and it is difficult to read.

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Ever wanted to search all of your buffers limited by their backing file type? Surprisingly I never did very much. ag and grep worked fine for me. Then I started leaving buffers open, with everything that I cared about, all the time. Then I joined the “Emacs 100+ Buffer Club”.

multi-occur-in-matching-buffers is helpful when you watch to use occur in some of those buffers.

macOS used Meta and Super for a lot of it’s own bindings. That ties up valuable Emacs key-space. Tonight I moved all of those meddling bindings into C-M-s. macOS get that all to itself making it happy. And it made me happy. Maybe it will make you happy.

Via here:

Now your post or page exists both in your Org-Mode file on your computer, and also in WordPress itself. That page or post inside of WordPress contains a lot of metadata and you might be interested in some of it. Here is documentation covering all of the fields. You can easily access that data using a hook function.

Continue reading “Org2Blog: Access Post Metadata After Publishing”

Last year I converted my Emacs Literate Configuration File from a complicated document full of out-of-order noweb objects to a simple sequential document that took the tangle times down from 3-10 minutes (because of how I set up my document not because of Org-Mode itself!!!) down to 30-90 seconds. But who doesn’t want more speed? I didn’t at least until I read this article which led me to reading this article and this page on garbage collection.

I tangle my config files what feels like every few minutes at least when I am playing around with stuff. So here is some code to effectively avoid garbage collection when tangling. It speeds up tangling on my computer when I tangle the same document in a row five or ten times so I’m happy but that clearly isn’t a detailed analysis.

Here is the code:

(setq help/default-gc-cons-threshold gc-cons-threshold)
(defun help/set-gc-cons-threshold (&optional multiplier notify)
  "Set `gc-cons-threshold' either to its default value or a
   `multiplier' thereof."
  (let* ((new-multiplier (or multiplier 1))
         (new-threshold (* help/default-gc-cons-threshold
                           new-multiplier)))
    (setq gc-cons-threshold new-threshold)
    (when notify (message "Setting `gc-cons-threshold' to %s"
                          new-threshold))))
(defun help/double-gc-cons-threshold () "Double `gc-cons-threshold'." (help/set-gc-cons-threshold 2))
(add-hook 'org-babel-pre-tangle-hook #'help/double-gc-cons-threshold)
(add-hook 'org-babel-post-tangle-hook #'help/set-gc-cons-threshold)

This Org-Mode document

#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{attachfile}
Jon this is an Org-Mode file which generated a PDF which contains itself.
@@latex:\attachfile{orginorg.org}@@

Generates this pdf that contains itself. Open it with Adobe Acrobat (or some other tool that can handle embedded files).

You can include any data you want inside a PDF using attachfile and it is easy to extract that data.

It is a toy example but you can script everything to work with embedded data in PDF.

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As key-binding name-spaces start to run out due to the massive expansion of packages out there today consider the C-s and the M-s name-spaces. Clicking around on my keyboard they don’t seem to be used much if at all. There is probably a reason for that and I’m going to ignore it because I want more name-space free for key-bindings.