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Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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Post by weaksauce » Thu, Mar 09, 2017, 4:20 PM UTC

tombert wrote: post #52

ageofwant wrote: post #49

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Check out http://spacemacs.org/ . Adding the org layer is a one-liner: 'org' in dotspacemacs-configuration-layers.

I've actually used Spacemacs, but the problem with all these "recreate your Vim setup in another editor" things is that you end up having to redo your entire config. I've had years of custom key-rebindings and tweaks to my `.vimrc` that I don't really feel like redoing for something else.

I had a lot of modifications to my vimrc but spacemacs won me over. It's mostly setup well out of the box. If you feel like taking the plunge there is an Irc like thing for open source projects (don't recall the name of it now.) that is fairly active.

Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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Post by cygned » Thu, Mar 09, 2017, 4:23 PM UTC

throwanem wrote: post #61

cygned wrote: post #8

I write lectures for university in org-mode. The PDF export (org -> LaTeX -> PDF) with org-beamer and a theme makes it a nice looking presentation. I can check into Git, can copy and paste layouts, have a great search and don't have to leave the keyboard (which over time has actually become quite a big deal for me). Just wished Preview would show thumbnails in the TouchBar.

For those uninterested in getting into a LaTeX presentation tool, there's also a package [1] supporting export from org-mode to Reveal.js presentations. I've found it to work quite well, and to be much more convenient than any more GUI-focused tool. [1] https://github.com/yjwen/org-reveal

I have used that, too, works like a charm.

Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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Post by shock » Thu, Mar 09, 2017, 4:31 PM UTC

jesse_m wrote: post #63

nextos wrote: post #4

It's worth noting a great Android client for org-mode has been recently open sourced: http://www.orgzly.com/ https://github.com/orgzly https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/com.orgzly It was a little annoyance we did not have anything as good as this before.

The only thing I can't stand is that you can schedule things and deadlines but no alarms or notifications go off.

You can generate iCal files and import them in a calendar application.

Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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Post by alanning » Thu, Mar 09, 2017, 4:35 PM UTC

Wow, I didn't know org mode did sequence diagrams. That is going to be really useful to document our code.

Will be great to be able to check in the source for sequence diagrams since the online services I've found for making them are hard to work with as a team.

Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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Post by eeZi » Thu, Mar 09, 2017, 4:40 PM UTC

jesse_m wrote: post #63

nextos wrote: post #4

It's worth noting a great Android client for org-mode has been recently open sourced: http://www.orgzly.com/ https://github.com/orgzly https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/com.orgzly It was a little annoyance we did not have anything as good as this before.

The only thing I can't stand is that you can schedule things and deadlines but no alarms or notifications go off.

Now that's it's open source, it should be easy to fix it.

Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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Post by eeZi » Thu, Mar 09, 2017, 4:40 PM UTC

jesse_m wrote: post #63

nextos wrote: post #4

It's worth noting a great Android client for org-mode has been recently open sourced: http://www.orgzly.com/ https://github.com/orgzly https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/com.orgzly It was a little annoyance we did not have anything as good as this before.

The only thing I can't stand is that you can schedule things and deadlines but no alarms or notifications go off.

Now that's it's open source, it should be easy to fix it.

Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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Post by snakeanus » Thu, Mar 09, 2017, 4:40 PM UTC

A bit unrelated but in the last update of org-mode when trying to use the listings latex package it starts inserting a \ before the { in \lstset {, is there any way to fix this?

Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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Post by dredmorbius » Thu, Mar 09, 2017, 4:43 PM UTC

_jal wrote: post #39

dredmorbius wrote: post #20

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Start using the tools. For LaTeX: I very strongly recommend picking up a copy of the Lion Book (Leslie Lamport) and running through the examples. I actually picked up a great deal by taking documents I'd found online in bastardised for and tagging them up manually in LaTeX for output into flexible formats -- HTML, PDF, ePub, and more. It turns out that the basics of LaTeX are, well, pretty basics. Paragraphs are doub…

As far as regexes, The Sed and Awk book is good, but Mastering Regular Expressions by Friedl is amazing. The amount of time that went into that work is mind-boggling. The deep dives into the differences between different engines and the detailed explanations of why one regex performs horribly vs. another that matches the same thing quickly are really enlightening.

I agree with both statements. I still think that Sed & Awk is the better starting reference, as it begins with basic tools.

Deep dives are fine, but sometimes you just wanto to get a few toes in the water.

I'd argue that if you've got performance issues with regexes, you're (arguably) abusing the tool.

Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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Post by dredmorbius » Thu, Mar 09, 2017, 4:44 PM UTC

alphapapa wrote: post #41

dredmorbius wrote: post #11

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An even better Android client for org-mode: 1. Install the Termux app. 2. Install the Termux API app. 3. Install the Termux api CLI tools via apt. You now have access to clipboard. 4. Install Emacs within termux. Termux offers an apt-based package management system, and a substantial, though partial, set of Debian-based packages. (592 packages as I write this -- a full Debian archive is >60k packages now.) There are…

How's the speed? I mean, I use use-package and a bunch of init file optimizations to get Emacs startup time as low as possible, but I can't imagine it being tolerable on my phone. And opening the agenda across my standard set of files would probably be awful.

I've only been making occaional use of Emacs (see comments elsewhere -- I've been using vi / vim since the mid-1980s, and have far more muscle-memory there). But I've had no complaints.

Re: Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook

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Post by dredmorbius » Thu, Mar 09, 2017, 4:56 PM UTC

badminton1 wrote: post #17

dredmorbius wrote: post #13

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Would that be this? https://jupyter.org/ (Your comment could be substantially improved by pointing to the source, and perhaps explaining why the tool is preferable, in your view.)

It is a very well known project, I didn't feel the need to introduce it. You can see some demos here: https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/wiki/A-gallery-of-interes... It's free/open source and can embed lots of different technologies: https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/wiki/Jupyter-kernels I think Jupyter is very powerful, the learning curve is lower, and you can share your documents in an easy way if you need to.

Thank you.

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