Tag: Emacs

The Disqus commenting system is used on 2/5 blogs out there today. So I was pretty happy to discover today that Disqus allows tags within comments. The cool thing is that for Org-Mode users to post rich Disqus comments it probably just means doing an Export to HTML as HTML buffer and pasting the results into the comment box.

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Today on my box I upgraded ImageMagick and now I can’t compile Org-Mode but I can run Emacs. Here is what I did to make Org-Mode build again on my box.

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When my friends look at my computer screen I want to invite them to use Emacs. But the name “Emacs”, like Honda or Maserati tells them nothing. Honda and Maserati have advertising everywhere though! So I set a frame title that tells them something about this program! Well, they probably have to like text editors already. And if they do, then they might be interested in a Super text editor.

BTW: I am totally serious about this. I want to invite my friends to use this. Programmers or not, Emacs is still Free Software and that matters for everyone. And I find Emacs to be super. It is super. You and I know that it’s power comes from Lisp and buffers but “Super Text Editor” also works for me.

(setq frame-title-format '("" "%b - Super Text Editor "))

Super Text Editor Screenshot

This post asks about how you can share static key pair values across different tangled source files. The following are my two tries.

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Sometimes you accidentally evaluate your entire Org-Mode document resulting in result blocks everywhere. Maybe you can’t easily revert the change so you are stuck with a ton of code you don’t need. Here is a function to remove all of your result blocks. It is pretty good for documents that you probably never wanted to evaluate in the first place:

(defconst help/org-special-pre "^\s*#[+]")
(defun help/org-2every-src-block (fn)
  "Visit every Source-Block and evaluate `FN'."
  (interactive)
  (save-excursion
    (goto-char (point-min))
    (let ((case-fold-search t))
      (while (re-search-forward (concat help/org-special-pre "BEGIN_SRC") nil t)
        (let ((element (org-element-at-point)))
          (when (eq (org-element-type element) 'src-block)
            (funcall fn element)))))
    (save-buffer)))
(define-key org-mode-map (kbd "s-]") (lambda () (interactive)
                                       (help/org-2every-src-block
                                        'org-babel-remove-result)))

When you share the Org-Mode Google Plus URL with your friends, try out the new easier to remember URL https://plus.google.com/+OrgModeForEmacs .

When I produce an Emacs screencast it takes four or five hours. That is after producing a handful that I’ve published and a few that I threw away. Over time I expect the process to get shorter but it is still pretty long.

There are a lot of Emacs screencasters out there. In addition to the tips there:

How long do you spend producing your screencasts and what are you tips and tricks to get the most production value in the least time?

My Emacs configuration contains over one hundred uses of the “easy” word form. Lines and lines of code explain how to easily do something. I even put together a package to easily do something. Each begging a question or two.

Why would I ever put something in my configuration to make a task strenuous? Would would I ever write code to make doing things difficult? But it is revealing.

Continue reading “Easily Avoid Using The Word Easily In Your Emacs Configuration”