Comments on: emacs for writers: org mode https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/07/22/emacs-for-writers-org-mode/ Sun, 24 Jul 2011 02:20:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: erpease https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/07/22/emacs-for-writers-org-mode/#comment-505451 Sun, 24 Jul 2011 02:20:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/07/22/emacs-for-writers-org-mode/#comment-505451 Thanks for the tip on org-mode. I haven’t explored it before and the orgtbl minor mode seems useful for editing dokuwiki tables (after I set up macros for converting wiki tables to org tables and vice versa). Though there are probably other ways.

(I use the It’s All Text! addon in firefox so I can edit textarea boxes with emacs.)

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/07/22/emacs-for-writers-org-mode/#comment-505450 Sat, 23 Jul 2011 02:32:11 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/07/22/emacs-for-writers-org-mode/#comment-505450 I’m pretty sure all the reasons one might have chosen Xemacs are obviated in current emacs.

org mode plus dropbox is the perfect way to have your cloud and eat it too.

]]> By: John Moeller https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/07/22/emacs-for-writers-org-mode/#comment-505449 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:04:17 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/07/22/emacs-for-writers-org-mode/#comment-505449 Oh, and org-mode paired with Dropbox is fantastic.

]]> By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/07/22/emacs-for-writers-org-mode/#comment-505448 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:53:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/07/22/emacs-for-writers-org-mode/#comment-505448 Thanks for the tip John; I dumped xemacs and am installing emacs23. Xemacs just demonstrated that I was mistaken to believe that nothing was uglier than the xfig interface.

]]> By: John Moeller https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/07/22/emacs-for-writers-org-mode/#comment-505447 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:44:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/07/22/emacs-for-writers-org-mode/#comment-505447 @MadScientist: You may want to install a “real” emacs instead of Xemacs. I guess that Xemacs is different enough that some emacs-lisp files don’t work properly in subtle ways. I use emacs 23 on both Windows and Linux.

I love org-mode, it’s the first scheduling/task software that worked for me. Org-mode is one of the two reasons that I use emacs. Writing in LaTeX is the other. In emacs it’s *so* much easier than any other environment.

]]> By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/07/22/emacs-for-writers-org-mode/#comment-505446 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:43:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/07/22/emacs-for-writers-org-mode/#comment-505446 Thanks for the tip; I’ll definitely check it out. *sigh* I guess I’ll be installing Xemacs after more than 10 years of being emacs-free. I had a peek at the org ref card and was instantly reminded of the emacs manual. Oh, such wondrous mystical keystrokes!

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