SciPy 2013 :Emacs + org-mode + python in reproducible research

Thought people might be interested in the Emacs and Org-mode use.

Emacs + org-mode + python in reproducible research

Org-mode, Another reason to learn it

You know why people fall in love with org-mode?  Because of posts like this, explaining how to do source code and results with the minimal of overheads.  That's why.  It's all in a bloody, blooming, text file, dammit.

What's your excuse in not learning it?
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sotto voce: Emacs?

Org-mode Release 7.8 out

Org-mode release 7.8 is now officially out with a few minor bug fixes.  The list of changes can be found here and the tarballs  and zips here.

And BTW, the google+ page for org-mode is here.

VimOrganizer, an Org-mode clone in Vim

I seemed to have missed this announcement.  For vim users, apparently, there is a way of using vim with org-mode.  The good news is that you use vim, the bad news is that it does use Emacs at the backend to work on the files. :-)

The relevant links are
An intro to some of the stuff in the new version is here:
https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer/blob/master/intro.txt
Git page is here:
https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer

And the page on Vim's website is here:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3342

Direct links to mail messages in Gmail through Org-mode

Here's something I didn't know was possible.  It's possible for org-mode links to point to Gmail's individual emails.  This thread on the list outlines the different options and caveats to do it from various posters.

And do note this post on how to refer to individual mail messages in the most general case.

Org Mode Parser for nodejs

From the org-mode mailing list, here's an org-mode parser for nodejs that can read org-mode files.

The OrgFather!

The new maintainer explains things...well, sort of...in Godfather style.  You might want to set captioning on.

Enjoy

Emacs Speaks Statistics Tutorial

From the org-mode mailing list, here's a tutorial announcement and link to Emacs and ESS tutorial.  You can find the slides and reference cards on ESS and a bit of org-mode for R users at the above site.  And probably invite the author to come and give a talk. :-)

 

Org mode has a sudoku solver!

In case you are stuck solving sudoku puzzles like  Carsten's daughter, you could check the contrib directory for org-sudoku.el.

Org-mode 7.6 released

From the org-mode mailing lists, a new release of org-mode can be downloaded here or here.

Key new features include OpenDocument support, new keybindings, babel and lilypond support apart from bug fixes.

If you use git, you may have to do a git pull to get the latest.

 

Calfw - A calendar framework for Emacs

From the org-mode mailing lists, here's an interesting view of the same agenda/calendar of org-mode similar to what you see in Google Calendar developed by SAKURAI Masashi.

This is not part of the org-mode development tree and you'd have to download the package from the github repository.   It might be a good idea to try it and give your feedback on the thread here.

Automatic Screenshot insertion in Org Mode

Trawling the org-mode mailing list , found another interesting hack on getting screenshots into your org notes.  The thread on what was originally asked is here, where the OP wanted to go from the clipboard into a named file.  One of the org members posted this reply along with the link to the elisp code.

Works on Unix-like systems with Imagemagick installed.

Integrating Emacs, Org mode and Google Calendar

Well, sort of.

This thread on on gnu.emacs.help is interesting in that it can allow you to work with your google calendar and org-mode after daisy chaining shell scripts and using Googlecl.  While this may not be a perfect solution, if you're willing to spend time tinkering with all the tools and scripts, it shouldn't be too difficult.

MobileOrg with Dropbox support

Looks like there is preliminary support for Dropbox in orgmode for Android phones.  This mail is the announcement and caveats.

Setting Up Org-mode for Windows screencast

For those of you who are yet to take org-mode for a spin, here's a nice video on how it's done, courtesy Russell Adams.  Go on, try it out.

Pretty cool Org-mode/Beamer demo

From the org-mode mailing list, here's a link to Beamer demo using org-mode.  Just goes to show what org-mode is capable of.  Of course, you need to know a bit of Org-mode AND Beamer AND Emacs to make sense of it.  Otherwise it's a bit of magic to you. ;)

Writing PPT with org-mode and beamer in Emacs

Since there's no voice over, you definitely need to know all the above stuff to figure it out.  And oh, LaTeX too.

New Org Version 7.01 released

Carsten has just released a major upgrade of org-mode.    You can see the user-visible changes here and the files can be downloaded here or here. 

Or if you use the developmental versions, using git, you just need to do a 'git pull'.  follow it up with a 'make;make doc' and you're all set.

Org-mode commit history video

A strangely fascinating video of the org-mode commit history.  Made by Eric Schulte.

Take a look and see Carsten's output there.  He's all over the place.

The All New Compact Org Mode guide

Well, at a short 34 pages (PDF), it's definitely smaller than the 200 page manual. And it just goes to show, how much development has gone into org-mode keeping the same simplicity(well, you could argue this doc refutes that notion) but extending it do lots of other things like LaTeX publishing.

I got started on LaTeX with the The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX2ε (PDF) which convinced me to use LaTeX to prepare my reports, presentations and letters. And that's definitely longer than the 34 pages of this tutorial.

So, give it a try, it just might help you get started on org-mode.

Using org-mode to send HTML mail

From the org-mode mailing list, here's a way to post HTML mail messages using org-mode. The link that works is this one. Apparently, one can still see the text part even if you set the Gnus reader to discourage HTML. And in it's present form, it works only with Gnus and not any other Emacs MUAs.

Presumably, one would use this feature only when required, as HTML is not something that is recommended as mail text as there is no guarantee that mail clients would be able to render it or render it the way you'd initially formatted the HTML.

Stick to plain text; Besides, if you're going all flashy in getting your point across, you've got a bigger problem than using HTML to say it.