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mastodon.el: a Hydra to memorize/access it's many commands

Tue, 13 Dec 2022 11:57:00 +0100

Mastodon has a lot of commands. You can access most of them directly via keybindings, just use M-x describe-mode or the h or ? keys. Can you remember them all?

But, if you don’t use Mastodon that regularly, maybe a Hydra can help you?

Export patches from Emacs' Notmuch

Sun, 15 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

I’m reading several linux-kernel related mailing lists. They are full of proposed patches. And from time to time a few of them look interesting. So I wanted to have an easy (and fast) solution of exporting those patches: with a keystroke, and without the need of specifying patch names.

Efficiently untangling Elisp from .org files

Thu, 12 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Many people keep their Emacs config in and org-mode file because it’s easier to manage.

However, we need to extract the Elisp parts out of the org file and evaluate them somehow. org-mode has a built-in command for this: (org-babel-load-file "config.org"). However, this is an org-mode command, and org-mode is huge. So your init.el needs to load a good amount of org-mode just to get the elisp out of it. But to be able to do this you’d need to load a good amount of the org-mode file.

I wanted to have something better. Something that is flexible and gives me a quicker startup time.

A nicer notmuch-hello screen for Emacs

Tue, 03 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Here I define my own hello screen for notmuch. However, I didn’t like it’s original “hello” screen not that much. So I wrote something to replace it.

Let Hugo ignore Emacs lockfiles

Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000

When you run

hugo server

the static web-site generator Hugo creates a local server that you can use to fine-tune your pages. Hugo sits and watches your content and layout directory for any changes. Whenever a file changes, it re-renders the pages and even tells your browser to live-relead the pages.

Very nice.

Except that it doesn’t work with Emacs. But there’s a cure.

Blog from Org-Mode to Hugo

Thu, 31 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

I use the static web-site generator Hugo to create my home page. I also use Emacs as my main editor. Hugo is good with Markdown. Emacs is good at Markdown, too. But much better with Org-Mode.

If you want …

export one .org file as one web page, look at Giles Paterson solution
export just a subtree of an org-file (e.g. from your org-based Emacs configuration), then look here.