[HN Gopher] Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook (2017)
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Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook (2017)
Author : ddtaylor
Score : 237 points
Date : 2021-03-10 07:37 UTC (15 hours ago)
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| sigmonsays wrote:
| This is a nicely timed article, i'm thirsty for emacs.
|
| I dived into emacs in janurary 2021 fully using doom emacs. I
| started doing scrum and meeting notes in org, then find myself
| slowly switching existing notes over to it.
|
| i keep all my emacs configs from ~/.doom.d in git and can easily
| bounce from machine to machine. Setup is pretty easy and i've
| found to have the same emacs experience where I go.
| cwlb wrote:
| I switched to Spacemacs around the same time you picked up Doom
| and dropped Spacemacs for Doom around a month ago.
|
| I'm not really a note taker, and I haven't picked up org yet. I
| actually uninstalled it before I realized that all the Doom
| docs are written in it and without org-mode you can't follow
| links XD
| jacobmoe wrote:
| I've been using spacemacs for a while, haven't looked into
| doom. Mind telling me why you decided to switch?
| tharne wrote:
| The startup speed of DOOM Emacs is outstanding, as others
| have noted.
|
| Additionally, I've found adding my own customizations is
| much easier in Doom than Spacemacs. While the Spacemacs
| "layers" approach is nice for setup, it can become very
| brittle when you start hacking on it yourself. Some of that
| could also be due to my own lack of skill with elisp,
| though.
| stjohnswarts wrote:
| I enjoy the way Doom is organized. You can overcome any
| startup timing problems in emacs by using daemon mode
| whether it's doom, space, or stock.
| teodorlu wrote:
| I also switched from Spacemacs to DOOM. I've decided to
| stay.
|
| Reasons:
|
| - DOOM Emacs is fast. Fast to start `emacs --daemon`, fast
| UX with the default config.
|
| - I've experienced DOOM Emacs to be more cohesive than
| Spacemacs
|
| I still keep my Spacemacs config around, but I haven't
| touched it in ... almost a year now.
| amichail wrote:
| Don't you think an org-mode for TeXmacs would be even better?
| dan-robertson wrote:
| Why would it be better?
|
| Org-mode can generate latex output but the whole point is to
| be a more human-readable markup format than latex. Org-mode
| can also convert your equations to images and display them
| inline.
| BostonEnginerd wrote:
| TeXmacs is a great looking piece of software, but I've never
| understood the name. I don't think it uses TeX underneath the
| hood, nor does it use Emacs.
| w0m wrote:
| I tried to do a dive into emacs in the Dec 2020 because of what
| i read a bout Org, but i just hit too many stability issues on
| my MBP with Doom - just went back to vimwiki after 2 wasted
| evenings. :/ Maybe someday.
| ipnon wrote:
| Didn't click for me until I needed to work on a Pinebook Pro
| that didn't have the juice for VSCode. After a full day of
| working with Emacs I'm a convert. The hardest things to grok
| were minibuffers and how every named command run with M-x is
| just an Elisp subroutine. After that Emacs just feels like a
| huge library of text manipulation functions, ergo, Editor
| MACroS.
| [deleted]
| xenodium wrote:
| I love org. I wish it was used by more apps as portable
| storage/format across platforms. I recently scratched my own itch
| and wrote an iOS habit tracker app, backed by org mode
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26306018
| throwanem wrote:
| That looks pretty sweet! I might send you an email.
|
| Couple questions first, if you don't mind:
|
| - What's the sync integration surface like? My ~/org lives in
| Dropbox, so I'm hoping that's an option.
|
| - Any plans for Siri and notifications integration? Sounds like
| that might be outside your use cases, so a "no" here is totally
| fair, but I'm still curious.
|
| Side question, do you have any especially good resources around
| Swift and/or iOS UI/UX design that you might want to recommend?
| Asking because it looks very much like I'm about to pivot into
| app dev via React Native, and I'm looking to make the most of
| the opportunity, especially as it comes to iOS.
|
| Thanks in advance, and here's hoping your habits app becomes
| everything you want it to be!
| xenodium wrote:
| > I might send you an email.
|
| Sure! Ping flathabits _at_ xenodium.com for a TestFlight
| invite.
|
| > - What's the sync integration surface like?
|
| Relies on other apps to sync. If iOS Files app can get access
| to it, the habits app will too (including conflict
| resolution). Dropbox seems to work. I could use more testing
| in this space if you're keen.
|
| > - Any plans for Siri and notifications integration?
|
| Notifications are supported. Hadn't considered Siri. Will
| give it more thought.
|
| > Asking because it looks very much like I'm about to pivot
| into app dev via React Native
|
| The app is native SwiftUI.
|
| You likely know all these... WWDC videos are great.
| Generally, hackingwithswift.com is great too. Also
| dimsumthinking.com has high quality material.
| Rochus wrote:
| Well, org-mode obviously has very powerful features; but I am
| rather avoiding Emacs and prefer my https://github.com/rochus-
| keller/CrossLine for note taking and information management; I
| can already generate navigable HTML pages for hand-out and I
| intend to implement an Asciidoc and LuaTeX export too.
| rcdwealth wrote:
| That looks as great application, thank you. I am not now hot
| to download all dependencies, and especially Qt as dependency
| is overkill. Did you see Leo editor? It works similar. Emacs
| works well on console and in GUI, so it is not just GUI
| application, that is big advantage. If you develop SQL
| application like that, I suggest you develop API in the same
| time and have the editor rather use the API, so that any
| other language can access the Outline structure you are
| creating. I wish I could run it, try it out, but dependencies
| are too much.
| Rochus wrote:
| The two available binary downloads for Windows (see
| http://software.rochus-keller.info/CrossLine_win32.zip) and
| Linux i386 are static builds with Qt statically linked, so
| no other dependencies; the Windows binary also works well
| with Wine on Linux and Mac; both only a few megabytes
| uncompressed.
|
| Didn't know Leo; will have a look at it. My preferred IDE
| is Qt Creator 3.x.
| rcdwealth wrote:
| I have tried it, it says something like: bash no file
| found, and there is no -h or --help option to know more
| about invokation. In general, it does not work on GNU
| Hyperbola/Linux-libre free OS, based on Arch Linux.
| Rochus wrote:
| Have you tried the Windows version with Wine? Never had
| an issue with that.
|
| Maybe you can check the Linux version with ldd and file,
| i.e. whether it misses a specific system library version
| or maybe your system is 64 bit and not all required i386
| parts are present.
| ta988 wrote:
| I've came to love asciidoc too, much simpler and clearer
| syntax. But the support is still too limited (and require a ton
| of libraries)
| rcdwealth wrote:
| Org mode is plain text. Basic text editing in Org style may be
| done with any editor. Let us say those features to enter TODO
| or change state from TODO to DONE or PENDING, could work faster
| if then in other editor exists macro function. With macro
| functions you can pretty fast prepare basic Org functions.
| Folding headings is maybe something that cannot be easily
| implement in other editors.
|
| Vim has Org mode too https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode
|
| Those mobile editors usually do not have macro functionality.
| But as soon as you have editor with macros it is possible
| within some 30 minutes to make few macros to add tags, change
| TODO states, add SCHEDULED or DEADLINE stamps or similar basic
| features.
| d0mine wrote:
| Org mode has a lots of features. Many people likely use just
| a small subset of features but it is also likely that these
| subsets differ for different people.
| rcdwealth wrote:
| I like simple outline mode. In the Emacs development
| version it folds now with TAB on the heading, so that is
| maybe one of major options. I could insert "TODO" but is
| not necessary. Org integrates many things together. But it
| is not my main note taking application. I am using
| PostgreSQL for note taking and exporting assignments,
| tasks, etc. from the database into the Org mode. It is
| quite different workflow.
|
| Org is not collaborative, database is collaborative,
| redundant, it offers way easier development then trying to
| handle database things by using text.
|
| By the way, people speak "Org mode is plain text", that is
| was back in time, today Org mode is everything else but
| plain text.
| nanna wrote:
| Anyone know if it's possible to tag a paragraph, or non-heading
| element, in org?
| olivierestsage wrote:
| I do this in a sort of roundabout way, by actually using a new
| heading for each paragraph (helps with outlining). You can make
| this work by adding the :ignore: tag to the headings, which
| means that the heading titles won't be exported when you export
| the document, but the text under them will. Basically, you get
| an invisible outline of your document that you can tag however
| you like.
|
| It requires some light setup to get working, since it's not
| part of the base functionality of Org. First, add these lines
| to your config (more details on StackExchange[1]):
| (require 'ox-extra) (ox-extras-activate '(ignore-
| headlines))
|
| Now you can add the :ignore: tag, and any other tags you want,
| to the heading for any paragraph. When you export, you'll just
| get the paragraphs, not the headings or tags.
|
| [1] https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/38184/org-mode-
| ign...
| nanna wrote:
| That's pretty neat, thank you! I'll give that a go.
|
| I suppose radio target links function a bit like inline tags,
| in a way, in that wrapping a string in <<<angle brackets>>>
| and C-c'ing it turns every use of that string in the file
| into a C-o'able link to the original radio target. Definitely
| not as featureful as proper :tags: but also has it's uses...
| dangom wrote:
| As a sibling parent mentioned, you can tag an element by
| inserting it into it's own heading and adding the :ignore: tag.
|
| I feel this functionality is overlooked, and it is in my
| opinion one of the most powerful features implemented in org,
| as it allows you to add "meta" groupings to your org document
| _without_ any effect on the content.
|
| Without the :ignore: tag, there is a strict semantic relation
| between org-mode document headings, as physically indicated by
| the * at the beginning of a line, and the corresponding
| hierarchical level of the heading's content.
|
| With the :ignore: tag, however, you separate content from form.
| Headings with :ignore: work just as headings for your file.org
| document: you can search for headings, link to them, add IDs
| and properties and whatever else you can do with headings. But
| when you export your document, the heading no longer exists and
| thus has no impact on the hierarchical level of its content.
|
| Why is this interesting? Well, because if content is separated
| from form, we can build things where the same content assume
| multiple forms depending on whatever context we define.
|
| I used this in combination with other org-mode tags,
| "#+exclude_tags" and "#+include" directives to build my Ph.D.
| thesis with org mode and have my thesis chapters be exportable
| both as thesis chapters as well as standalone publications.
| Shameless plug: https://github.com/dangom/org-thesis
|
| It should be straightforward to extend the idea to
| presentations and other formats as well.
| ldx77 wrote:
| I use org-mode all the time and do a lot of plotting with Python
| and matplotlib and for some reason the snippet
| #+BEGIN_SRC python :var fname="delseepy.png" :var delsee=delsee
| :results file import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
| x, y, z = zip(\*delsee) fig = plt.figure()
| axes = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1) axes.plot(y, z, marker='o')
| fig.savefig(fname) return fname #+END_SRC
|
| has never worked for me. I have to remove the "return" keyword on
| the last line. Not sure if this is an org-mode issue or related
| to the Python version (the author seems to be using Python 2).
| superbcarrot wrote:
| This has been my limited experience with everything related to
| Emacs - fragmented tutorials on how to do x that work with
| someone's specific setup. And when you start looking around for
| fixes you get solutions for "this is how I do this with
| Prelude", "this is built-in", "my customized Spacemacs
| setup..." and at that point I throw my hands in the air, admit
| to myself that I'm not a real man and go back to VSCode.
| nanna wrote:
| > admit to myself that I'm not a real man
|
| Note, many emacs users aren't men at all.
| [deleted]
| superbcarrot wrote:
| I know. It's a figure of speech, not a reference to the
| demographics of emacs users.
| rcdwealth wrote:
| It is so. Emacs contains the full Emacs manual, non-
| fragmented, compact and complete, including the full Org mode
| manual, non-fragmented. It is self-documenting program. Users
| can learn what is built-in feature and what exists before
| starting to use extensions.
|
| If you try to do too much at once, of course, you are prone
| to give up as you started on a too high gradient.
| Jeff_Brown wrote:
| I think I'm a pretty adept emacs user, and I've relied at
| least ten times more on crappy informal documentation in
| blogs, StackOverflow etc. than on the real stuff.
| JHonaker wrote:
| I do that too, but out of habit from other pursuits
| rather than a real necessity. Recently, I've found myself
| going to Emacs and packages' internal help first, and I
| usually find what I'm looking for. Despite me spending
| several years not believing it, it's really good
| documentation for the most part.
| tobbe2064 wrote:
| There is a package which lets you interact with ipython kernels
| instead. You might want to check that out.
|
| https://github.com/nnicandro/emacs-jupyter
| Thibi2000 wrote:
| You might have to check the value of =org-babel-python-wrapper-
| method=, which defines the format of the created temporary file
| to which the source block is exported so it can be executed
| properly.
|
| After installing matplotlib using pip3 and changing =org-babel-
| python-command= to python3 I was able to execute this example
| without a problem.
|
| The value of =org-babel-python-wrapper-method= for me is:
| def main(): %s open('%s', 'w').write(
| str(main()) )"
| nprescott wrote:
| I have tried with both python 2.7.18 and python 3.8.6 using
| Emacs 27.1 and the excerpt works without issue for me; I have
| no configuration (emacs -Q) beyond pointing org to my virtual
| environment and allowing python evaluation in org-babel:
| (org-babel-do-load-languages 'org-babel-load-languages
| '((python . t))) (setq org-babel-python-command "~/mpl-
| venv/bin/python")
|
| Are you perhaps on an outdated version of Emacs?
|
| There have been a few different fixes around the "last line"
| return value over the years[0][1] but I can't really remember
| something like your example not working for me personally.
|
| [0]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-
| orgmode/2017-11/msg...
|
| [1]: https://orgmode.org/list/87pnfdo88v.fsf@gmail.com/t/#u
| neolog wrote:
| Is each block converted into a function? Otherwise it's a
| syntax error.
| sahkopoyta wrote:
| Yes they are, for me that exact snippet is fine
| danieldk wrote:
| I have found that over time org documents tend to become
| coupled somewhat to your Emacs configuration and are not
| generally portable. I guess this is the reason why many org
| example snippets on the net do not really work exactly the
| same.
| [deleted]
| agumonkey wrote:
| gotta admit using external code as org-table formula was a nice
| trick
|
| http://ehneilsen.net/notebook/orgExamples/org-examples.html#...
|
| also, even though calc rpn stack is cute, having it in SRC blocks
| is quite dandy
| ashton314 wrote:
| I used to use Markdown for all my personal notes. Now I use org-
| mode. Part of what made this possible was finding Working Copy on
| iOS so I could view and edit my org-mode documents.
|
| It makes me very happy that GitHub supports formatting your
| README in org-mode.
| sudhirkhanger wrote:
| Is there a way to view live preview of org file? Say in the next
| window.
| mcncm wrote:
| Despite being a plain-text format, it can be made very human-
| readable with minimal configuration. If you want to auto-export
| to your preferred format on save, say, and view it live in a
| parallel window, you can accomplish that with a single line of
| Emacs Lisp. This is what Emacs is all about: if you can do
| anything with a tiny little elisp function, there isn't exactly
| a clear bulleted list of what the "features" of an application
| are. Some people really like that.
| ipnon wrote:
| I've been dreaming of a full Lisp port of Emacs to get rid of all
| the baremetal C routines and GNU libraries. Just write the whole
| thing in Racket or something similar.
| msla wrote:
| It's been done:
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics_Emacs
|
| > Multics Emacs is an early implementation of the Emacs text
| editor.[1] It was written in Maclisp by Bernard Greenberg at
| Honeywell's Cambridge Information Systems Lab in 1978, as a
| successor to the original 1976 TECO implementation of Emacs and
| a precursor of later GNU Emacs.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EINE_and_ZWEI
|
| > EINE and ZWEI are two discontinued Emacs-like text editors
| developed by Daniel Weinreb and Mike McMahon for Lisp machines
| in the 1970s and 1980s.
|
| [snip]
|
| > Unlike the original TECO-based Emacs, but like Multics Emacs,
| EINE was written in Lisp. It used Lisp Machine Lisp.
|
| The only one you might be able to run natively now is Hemlock:
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemlock_(text_editor)
|
| > Hemlock is a free Emacs text editor for most POSIX-compliant
| Unix systems. It follows the tradition of the Lisp Machine
| editor ZWEI and the ITS/TOPS-20 implementation of Emacs, but
| differs from XEmacs or GNU Emacs, the most popular Emacs
| variants, in that it is written in Common Lisp rather than
| Emacs Lisp and C--although it borrows features from the later
| editors.
| mkl95 wrote:
| I have been using Emacs (Python and C/C++) and Org for a few
| years now. Org's HTML export is a godsend feature.
| j7ake wrote:
| I like orgmode and emacs and wish to convert more activities into
| orgmode.
|
| One thing I found tricky was switching computers or getting a new
| computer can be very disruptive to the emacs/orgmode workflow
| because of the amount of customizations that build over years of
| using a specific orgmode workflow. Apps, on the other hand, are
| very portable between devices (phone, table, laptop).
|
| Are there easy solutions to make emacs and orgmode set ups more
| portable between machines?
| nanna wrote:
| I've found that using use-package in my init.el to manage,
| install and customize my packages helps me run a reasonably
| similar emacs setup across my Linux and Windows computers. I
| use git to synchronise it across systems. (use-
| package wordnut :ensure t ;; install package if it
| doesn't exist :config (global-set-key (kbd "C-c
| w") 'wordnut-search))
|
| If I want a package to only load on Linux or windows, I can do
| it so: (use-package xclip :if (eq
| system-type 'gnu/linux) :ensure t :config
| (xclip-mode 1)) (use-package w32-browser :if
| (eq system-type 'windows-nt) :ensure t)
| jeremyjh wrote:
| I wish there were a way to pin/lock the version of
| dependencies. Each time I update all packages something new
| breaks, and I have to spend time tracking it down and fixing
| or reverting it. So I've just been syncing my entire .emacs.d
| folder.
| snicker7 wrote:
| If you are using Linux, you can already do with with Guix-
| installed emacs packages. Otherwise, I think straight.el is
| adding this feature in the future.
| jeremyjh wrote:
| Thanks, I didn't know about straight.el. Looking into
| that and the Doom distribution that is built on top of
| it. Looks far more sane.
| robto wrote:
| In addition to nix and guix, which have been mentioned, you
| can also use straight.el[0]. It's a functional package
| manager for emacs, so you'd use it instead of package.el.
| It checks out the git repo for each package and maps
| package name->commit hash in a nice little file, which you
| can then commit to git. Then, on a new machine, it will
| check out that specific rev for all your packages.
|
| It even has nice use-package integration, so if you're
| already using that you likely won't have to change all your
| config.
|
| [0]https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el
| anaerobicover wrote:
| Plus 1 to this. I've adopted straight.el a little while
| ago and I've been especially loving how easy it makes
| hacking on my installed packages. Now that they're
| version controlled, I can easily try things and back them
| out if they don't work. And more importantly I can
| _remember_ the tweaks I 've made, because there's a
| readily-available diff. With regular package.el it was
| nearly impossible to keep track of little changes I had
| made and preserve them across upgrades or transfer them
| to another machine.
| TacticalCoder wrote:
| > So I've just been syncing my entire .emacs.d folder.
|
| That's one solution.
|
| I've got mine under Git. It's a bit more "work" in that
| when I upgrade packages (which I don't do all the time) I
| need to commit what's been deleted/added but I can at any
| time go back to any past working setup.
|
| Then I just use Git across user accounts / machines to
| synch my Emacs setup.
|
| Others are using Nix.
|
| > Each time I update all packages something new breaks...
|
| Don't know what's the "proper" way to do it but I upgrade
| packages manually and never all at once. That is: I never
| start from an empty Emacs. There are some tradeoffs I guess
| but I never have to track down which package is problematic
| and reverting is basically checking out the last commit.
|
| I'm not saying it's the best way to do it but it just
| works.
| fennecfoxen wrote:
| I want to love org-mode, but I made the early mistake of trying
| to export some of my data in a coherent format. It seems okay
| for keeping organized, but it's a disaster as an archive or a
| publishing platform, in no small part because of the workflow
| issues you mentioned.
| ta988 wrote:
| Yes that's currently my problem as well. What kind of things
| were you trying to export?
| zarkov99 wrote:
| Yes, keep your ~/.emacs.d in Dropbox. I have been doing that
| for I think 10 years or so. It works very well.
| stjohnswarts wrote:
| I haven't used drop box before, how do you keep synced? Do
| you access it the .emacs.d through a symlink? do you copy it
| over to ~ and copy back when you make changes? Do you use it
| directly from the Dropbox "local" folder? I'm currently using
| git to push/pull but it would be nice if it was more
| automated.
| zarkov99 wrote:
| Dropbox keeps it synced, that is its function. I simlink
| from ~/.emacs.d into Dropox. Its fairly seamless, you
| change it in one machine and it just pops up in the other.
| ta988 wrote:
| Try Doom emacs (lots of sane defaults) plus vc repo with
| hostname dependent config (so email or use specific things
| don't spill).
| Naga wrote:
| This doesn't solve the direct issue, but I use emacs --daemon
| and either use it to edit files on other computers, or ssh into
| my main computer to access the daemon directly. It really
| simplified my workflow trying to get configurations in sync.
| ta988 wrote:
| I've used syncthing. Other than occasional "i forgot to save
| on one machine" issues it works great.
| easytiger wrote:
| Depends. checkin to a vc repo?
| ubermonkey wrote:
| If you are on Windows, my understanding is that it's pretty
| easy to create a portable emacs setup that you store in, say,
| your Dropbox or $preferred-sync-platform that would keep things
| central.
|
| But yeah, otherwise, it's a problem. I've grown very dependent
| on org and emacs, but access anywhere but my two laptops is
| kind of painful and kludgy.
|
| I _can_ use BeOrg, but BeOrg seems to have been built to
| support an orgmode use pattern that is very different from
| mine.
|
| I can also ssh into my Ubuntu vm from my iPad, and obviously
| THAT experience is fine, but it's also more of a production
| than I'd really like if I just want to briefly interact with
| the org files.
| throwanem wrote:
| Honestly, I don't really try to integrate _everything_ into
| Org-mode. I use it very heavily for planning and tasking of
| programming projects, for example, because if I 'm
| programming something, I'm already doing that in Emacs
| anyway. Likewise for time tracking in contract work, or
| projects where that's othwrwise needed. And I use Org for
| writing, for much the same reason: I do that in Emacs,
| anyway. But for general-purpose calendaring, reminders, and
| so on, it's much easier and more convenient to just run a
| CalDAV/CardDAV service that everything else integrates with
| OOTB.
|
| I do keep my ~/org in Dropbox and have a phone app I can use
| to make quick edits, and which I have used for longer writing
| on trains and such. But it's definitely not a first-class UI,
| and I don't try to use it as such.
|
| (On the other hand, I'm getting ready to redo my blog in
| Jekyll rather than Wordpress, not least to improve the
| authoring workflow by being able to bring it into Emacs...)
| throwanem wrote:
| You should be able to cover the 99% cases by making your
| ~/.emacs.d a Git repo and cloning it as part of setting up a
| new machine. This will bring along all your installed packages
| as well; 'package-list is a customization and thus preserved
| with your init, and #'package-initialize will install any
| missing packages it finds when called.
|
| (Speaking of preserved customizations, by default those are
| written into ~/.emacs.d/init.el. As part of setting up for a
| version-controlled ~/.emacs.d/, I'd strongly recommend setting
| 'custom-file to e.g. ~/.emacs.d/custom.el, so that those are
| stored separately from your init logic proper - it's not a huge
| issue either way, but customizations are a fertile field for
| merge conflicts due to the way they're written and stored, and
| I find this makes those conflicts significantly more
| comfortable to resolve.)
|
| You could in theory also add init logic to check for the
| presence of needed external binaries and, if necessary, install
| them via Homebrew, apt, or some Windows equivalent - I've
| thought about doing this since I already do have some platform-
| specific logic in my init, but it hasn't been enough overhead
| to bother since I rarely need to spin up a new workstation
| machine.
|
| (Also, of course, ensure that you store any secrets like
| passwords or other credentials in a separate file, not checked
| into version control.)
|
| To ensure you reliably have a specific version of Org, you can
| add the orgmode.org ELPA [1] to your 'package-archives and
| install a given version from there, rather than relying on
| whatever comes with a given Emacs build. I do this myself and
| recommend it to others; Org changes a good deal between
| versions in my experience, so version pinning helps avoid
| unexpected behavior that has otherwise been fairly common.
|
| In the same spirit, it can be worth building Emacs from source
| on a new machine. I also do this, again in order to ensure the
| behaviors of a specific version to which I've become
| accustomed; I generally upgrade only when a major new feature
| or bug fix makes it strongly worthwhile, and then on all my
| machines at once. (It's a manual process, but not a difficult
| one. I guess I could automate it, but for something I do a few
| times a decade, that hasn't seemed worth it so far.)
|
| [1] https://orgmode.org/elpa.html
| clircle wrote:
| Emacs config in github, org notes in dropbox.
|
| I did this for a little while, but now I just use org notes on
| my work computer, and the ios notes app for personal things.
| Org need not consume everything.
| felixr wrote:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20210122070120/http://ehneilsen....
| agentultra wrote:
| Org mode is my documentation secret weapon. I write books,
| presentations, technical documentation, and even literate data
| migration scripts.
|
| Some added tips: ditaa is cool but you can also integrate mermaid
| [0] well and display inline images. There's a well-done revealjs
| [1] exporter. And you can also use results blocks as input to
| other code blocks!
|
| PDF export is excellent and integrates well with some scripts I
| wrote to publish them to my remarkable. Great for writing and
| then reviewing specs on the go.
|
| The drawback is that sharing the document sources with a team is
| hard since so few people on a team are likely going to be emacs
| users. Only work around I have for that is to run emacs in batch
| mode to generate/export docs... or just export to markdown and
| maintain in markdown if the team uses a different tool or
| dislikes the org syntax.
|
| [0] https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/
|
| [1] https://github.com/yjwen/org-reveal
| dang wrote:
| Discussed at the time:
|
| _Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13828732 - March 2017 (161
| comments)
| submeta wrote:
| This is excellent. Been using Emacs/org for all my writing
| projects for a year now, and this site gives a wonderful overview
| of many things I have learned the hard way. - Thank you for
| sharing this.
| singingfish wrote:
| Org is great. I recently hooked up my working notes directory to
| our gitlab instance at work. With git auto-commit-mode I can show
| my colleagues nicely formatted notes. When I need to export to
| word I can do that with pandoc.
|
| I wish I used babel more. Last I used was to give live examples
| for some external API interactions we needed to document.
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