You Love Emacs And IKEA Is To Blame

Have you spent hundreds of hours configuring and thinking about Emacs?

And despite that your fondness for it only continues to grow?

And when you can’t explain to your friends why you love Emacs you chalk it up to your own poor communication skills.

I do.

But here is another explanation.

I dare you to watch all eleven minutes.

Addendum <2017-05-10 Wed 18:39>

Alternate title: “Emacs: You Came For A Bargain And Left With A Treasure”

Org-Mode's Two Most Useful Data Table Functions That You Probably Never Used

It might be hard to admit it for us Emacsers but most of us are pretty comfortable using Excel (or its clones) for data management. Maybe the fun stops there but it doesn’t have to.

Here are the two most important functions for getting the most out of working together with Org-Mode data tables and Excel (without having to use literate programming):

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