My blogging setup with Emacs, Org mode, ox-hugo, Hugo, GitLab and Netlify

December 11, 2020

My blogging has seen multiple iterations over the years, and with it, the tools I use have changed. At the moment I use a set of free tools and workflows which make it very easy to keep my blog updated. This post gives a brief overview of my setup.

How to easily create and use human-readable IDs in Org mode and Doom Emacs

December 6, 2020

Automate the process of generating and inserting links to headlines in the current Org document using human-readable IDs instead of the default UUID-based IDs generated by Org mode.

New release of Publishing with Emacs, Org-mode and Leanpub

December 4, 2020

A new release of my book "Publishing with Emacs, Org-mode and Leanpub" is out! With a lot of new information and other improvements. Learn how to use powerful tools and workflows to easily publish your words.

My Doom Emacs configuration, with commentary

October 19, 2020

I switched from my hand-crafted Emacs config to Doom Emacs some time ago, and I am very happy with it. This is my full, working Doom Emacs config in literate form.

How to insert screenshots in Org documents on macOS

August 9, 2020

As I'm taking notes or writing in Org-mode, I often want to insert screenshots inline with the text. While Org supports inserting and displaying inline images, the assumption is that the image is already somewhere in the file system and we just want to link to it. In this post I will show you how to automate the insertion of images from the clipboard into an org-mode document.

New book: Publishing with Emacs, Org-mode and Leanpub

June 20, 2020

I am happy to announce the new release of my new book "Publishing with Emacs, Org-mode and Leanpub", which talks about powerful tools and workflows you can use to easily publish your words.

Beautifying Org Mode in Emacs

March 21, 2018

Configuring Org Mode in Emacs for beautiful typography for both text and code editing.

My Emacs Configuration, With Commentary

December 17, 2017

I have enjoyed slowly converting my configuration files to literate programming style using org-mode in Emacs. It's now the turn of my Emacs configuration file.

Spotlight: use-package, a declarative configuration tool - Mastering Emacs

February 25, 2016

via https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/spotlight-use-package-a-declarative-configuration-tool

Have you ever heard of use-package? It’s a declarative way of expressing package configuration in Emacs but without the tears.

This looks amazingly useful. I need to start migrating my Emacs config to use-package ASAP.

Fixing Emacs problems with the fish shell

May 14, 2015

I started getting errors from the TRAMP Emacs package because I was using fish as my default shell, and it does not recognize certain standard syntax elements (such as && to separate commands), and Emacs runs subcommands under the default shell. I fixed this by:

Changing my account's default shell back to `/bin/bash`
Changing my Terminal.app preferences to run `/usr/local/bin/fish` when a shell opens, instead of the default login shell:

image from Fixing Emacs problems with the fish shell

Remapping Mac modifier keys on Emacs 23.3

November 27, 2011

I just switched from Carbon Emacs (which is old Emacs 22.x) to Emacs for OS X Modified on my Mac (which is a Cocoa app, and Emacs 23.3).

One of the unwelcome changes was that the Emacs 'Meta' modifier is now by default mapped to the Option key and not Command as before. But this gave me the opportunity to learn how to map the Mac keyboard modifier keys arbitrarily. I now have the following in my .emacs:

Emulate vi's % command (jump to matching parenthesis) in Emacs

August 18, 2010

	; One of my recent favorite pieces of Emacs configuration. The % command was one of the things I missed the
	; most in Emacs, until I found this little gem. I modified it from its original source by adding
	; previous-line and next-line to the list of commands.
	; From http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ParenthesisMatching#toc4
	(defun goto-match-paren (arg)
	"Go to the matching parenthesis if on parenthesis AND last command is a movement command, otherwise insert %.
	vi style of % jumping to matching brace."
	(interactive "p")
	(message "%s" last-command)
	(if (not (memq last-command '(
	set-mark
	cua-set-mark
	goto-match-paren
	down-list
	up-list
	end-of-defun
	beginning-of-defun
	backward-sexp
	forward-sexp
	backward-up-list
	forward-paragraph
	backward-paragraph
	end-of-buffer
	beginning-of-buffer
	backward-word
	forward-word
	mwheel-scroll
	backward-word
	forward-word
	mouse-start-secondary
	mouse-yank-secondary
	mouse-secondary-save-then-kill
	move-end-of-line
	move-beginning-of-line
	backward-char
	forward-char
	scroll-up
	scroll-down
	scroll-left
	scroll-right
	mouse-set-point
	next-buffer
	previous-buffer
	previous-line
	next-line
	)
	))
	(self-insert-command (or arg 1))
	(cond ((looking-at "\\s\(") (forward-list 1) (backward-char 1))
	((looking-at "\\s\)") (forward-char 1) (backward-list 1))
	(t (self-insert-command (or arg 1))))))
	(global-set-key (kbd "%") 'goto-match-paren)

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Installing AucTeX on EmacsW32 on Win7/64bit

August 17, 2010

Today I had to install AucTeX to use on my Win7/64 machine under EmacsW32. I found the basic instructions here: http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/2007/09/01/installing-auctex-in-emacsw32, but I had to modify them a bit (in particular, I am using tetex installed from cygwin instead of MiKTeX). Here are the commands I used:

$ mkdir -p /usr/local/share/texmf $ ./configure --prefix='c:/Program Files (x86)/Emacs/emacs' --with-texmf-dir='/usr/local/share/texmf' --with-lispdir='c:/Program Files (x86)/Emacs/emacs/site-lisp' $ make $ make install

I then added the following lines to my C:\Program Files (x86)\Emacs\site-lisp\site-start.el file: