Category: Link

org-mode document transport ala a zip file

In this humble post the Kitchin Research Group demonstrates how to package up all external references for an org-mode document for transportation in a zip file solving the problem that many org-mode users face of how to simply and easily share the entirety of an org-mode document with others without exporting to PDF.

Simple OSX key swap and trackpad ease

This article describes a tool for remapping your Mac laptop keyboard. Initially I took the simpler route and swapped caps lock with control and command with option in the system preferences menu. That was OK until I remembered that I had wanted to have a right control key on the laptop. Oops.
The solution was simple, installing KeyRemap4Macbook and checking a single setting, Command_R to Control_L was all it took. Thanks Bozhidar!
Now you may have been daunted by the configuration menu but take it as an opportunity to learn about some valuable ways to configure things. What was delightful for me to learn about was its Multi-touch extension feature (sorry no direct link) which is based on ThumbSense. Very cool and very nice looking if you want to enjoy a trackpad without having to contort your hands just to get a mouse click (if you don’t have a Macbook of course).

imenu-anywhere

A mistake that I made too often in life was to focus too much on the specific implementation or realization of a thing instead of learning about the valuable generalizations and abstractions that may be learned from it and applied elsewhere. That was then, this is now.
imenu is actually a nice feature for Emacs. When I learned about it way back when, having quit using the menu bar, I dismissed it as not-helpful. That was a stupid thing for me to do because there ought to be a way to use it with the keyboard. Of course there is.
Thank you vitoshka, for imenu-anywhere.