After a long break, let's get back into Emacs and talk about obsessions, small tweaks and improvements in my config, arrows and an additional modal key which could help with long, hard-to-remember Emacs key combinations.

Shownotes

Intro

• Dreaming of obsession
• My new podcast about Computer science, programming and math

Config news

• Abbrev mode
• YAsnippet
• avy
• Episode 5: Blogging with Org mode and Emacs

Hyper key

• Karabiner Elements
• Configure a Hyper Key on OSX
• Karabiner God Mode

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Intro

• My talk Decentralized evolutionary computation with Clojure and ClojureScript

Config news

• fritzgrabo's helpful comment
• Make counsel-git see untracked files: (setq counsel-git-cmd "git ls-files --full-name --exclude-standard --others --cached --")
• My Emacs workflow video
• celeritasCelery's project.el + counsel.git solution to project navigation
• Nikita Prokopov
• grumpy.website
• Consider supporting Oleh Krehel (abo-abo) on Patreon. He created and maintains swiper, hydra, lispy, avy and many other awesome extensions.
• Episode 5 of EmacsCast that includes the description of my move from Helm to Ivy
• Visual Line Mode
• Swiper-isearch - a more isearch-like swiper

Writing

• Structure editing in org (including narrowing and widening)
• ox-slimhtml
• Snippet: copy org as html into clipboard
• Markdown mode
• Snipper: copy Markdown as html into clipboard
• Checking and Correcting Spelling
• Powerthesaurus integration

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Config news

• Display line numbers natively
• Highlight current line

• Background color for current line number

• Projectile docs

• Counsel Projectile

Writing

• Indirect Buffers
• Org LaTeX export
• Example of default Org->LaTeX->PDF export
• Auto-export to HTML on save

Blogging

• EmacsCast Episode 5: Blogging with Org mode and Emacs

Long-form writing

• Pandoc: a universal document converter
• Pandoc conversion diagram
• ox-pandoc: an exporter that translates Org-mode files to other formats via Pandoc

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• Edit indirect
• "25 years of coding, and I'm just beginning"
• My Twitch page
• Opening Large Files
• How is Doom’s startup so fast?
• nlinum

You can now support EmacsCast on Patreon! There are perks and this wonderful feeling of helping the project you like :-)

Find out more on the EmacsCast website.

You can now support EmacsCast on Patreon! There are perks and this wonderful feeling of helping the project you like :-)

News

• org-support-shift-select
• worf.el: org speed keys with a bit of vi flavor
• Org Speed Keys
• How Emacs undo works (reddit)
• Undo (Emacs manual)
• My webcomic Honestly Undefined
• Section of my config with a capture template for 'new comic'

Back to basics

• Emacs as daemon + Emacs client
• Software disenchantment by Nikita Prokopov
• RE: Software disenchantment (my answer to Nikita)
• Grumpy Website
• Why I’m done with Chrome by Matthew Green
• Smartparens
• Moving in the Parenthesis Structure (Emacs manual)
• Mastering Emacs book

News

• Updated config with Ivy instead of Helm
• Shackle a way to control window creation
• Castlemacs: modern, minimalist Emacs for macOS ⌘

Exporting HTML with Org mode

• Some HTML templates for Org exporter
• Another very nice theme (I'm going to set this as default for my setup)
• Wordpress
• Aegea, the blogging engine
• My blog in Russian that uses Jekyll

Blogging with ox-hugo

• My main blog in English powered by Hugo, ox-hugo and Org mode
• Hugo, another static website generator
• Ox-hugo: a carefully crafted Org exporter back-end for Hugo
• Section of ox-hugo documentation on LaTeX

Some of my articles produced with Mathjax

• A Simple Introduction to Proof by Contradiction
• A Simple Introduction to Proof by Induction

Send feedback to [email protected] or via twitter @freetonik

Thanks!

News

• New Emacscast.org website (source)
• Hugo static website generator
• Ox-Hugo: A carefully crafted Org exporter back-end for Hugo
• Emacs.el podcast
• My personal blog, powered by ox-hugo as well
• Netlify
• My current config

Support Emacs community developers

• List of ways to support Emacs community developers
• Bastien Guerry's tweet
• Helm development is stalled for now

Spacemacs

• Spacemacs homepage
• Layers

Doom

• Doom homepage
• Doom themes
• Doom modeline (very pretty!)

Modal editing in Emacs

• Evil-mode
• God mode
• Modalka
• Boon
• RYO modal mode!
• Fingers.el
• Xah Fly Keys

Fresh "Config News" and an overview of Org mode, a powerful Emacs package for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system.

• My current config
• Org-mode
• Workflowy, a simple outliner
• Nice looking PDF version of my config. Generated by Org LaTex->PDF exporter. Note that some code blocks are too wide and don't with on the page. That's my fault, not Org's :)
• Org capture video tutorial by Mike Zamansky. Part 2.
• David O'Toole Org tutorial
• Getting Started With Org Mode (YouTube) by Harry Schwartz.
• Getting yourself organized with OrgMode (YouTube playlist) by Rainer König

Complete shownotes with links on Github

Please, send feedback, suggestions and ideas to [email protected].

I explain my setup, configuration with Org-babel and packages I have at the moment. It's a simple, but flexible starting point for beginners, I think.

• My config as of Aug 3, 2018 when this episode aired
• My current config
• Aquamacs, macOS-specific Emacs build
• Emacs For Mac OS X, pure Emacs, no nonsense
• The Emacs Initialization File, like .emacs or .emacs.d/init.el
• Lars Tveito's config
• Harry R. Schwartz's config. Harry's talk about org-mode is excellent, by the way.
• melpa - Milkypostman’s Emacs Lisp Package Archive

Complete shownotes with links on Github

Please, send feedback, suggestions and ideas to [email protected].

Pilot episode: let's talk about who this podcast is for, why I make it and how my obsession with tools was somewhat fixed when I tried Emacs.

• Beginner's Mind
• Approaching Life with Beginner’s Mind by Leo Babauta
• Two Emacs podcasts
• Dendy console, a Taiwanese clone of NES (not SNES, like I said in the episode). The Keyboard version was called Subor and it looked like this.
• Sublime Text Editor

Complete shownotes with links on Github

Please, send feedback, suggestions and ideas to [email protected].