Here is how to do it.
Search for the heading “Generating autoloads and Compiling Org without make”.
This is very helpful for non-developer Org-Mode users who want to run Org-Mode from source via Git.
Tag: Reproducible Research
Link Roundup
Uniquely Name Source-Blocks and Headline IDs in Org-Mode
Always name all of your Source-Blocks and uniquely ID Headlines in Org-Mode. It is the only way to make Literate Programming pleasant and predictable. At the very least you will understand what is happening during tangling.
Org-Mode Release 8.3
Addendum: 2015-08-16
Interesting:
- org-show-context-detail
- Markdown export supports switches in source blocks
- ASCII export additions
- Export inline source blocks
- ascii plot
- date macro parms
- mathjax cdn
- viewport for html mobile
- remotely edit footnote definition
- texinfo image support
- Removed option org-koma-letter-use-title
- Three slash URI links
- Footnotes in included files are now local to the file
- When exporting, throw an error on unresolved id/fuzzy links and code refs
Easily Go To and Return From Headlines in Org-Mode
Quit using goto-line and isearch to navigate in your Org-Mode document. I didn’t want to use Helm or Imenu to do it and Org-Mode has a built in solution with org-goto. Be sure to bind the “pop” key very close-by to make it symmetrical and fast.
(define-key org-mode-map (kbd "s-u") #'org-goto)
(define-key org-mode-map (kbd "s-U") #'org-mark-ring-goto)
Emacs, Calendars, Google, and Org Mode
This post has a few nice links. emacs-calfw is calendar framework for Emacs. google-maps displays Google Maps directly inside Emacs. org-gcal.el synchronizes org-mode with Google Calendar.
Nice HTML Slide Export in Org-Mode with org-ioslide
Org HTML Themes
org-html-themes provides very nice HTML export themes for your org documents.
How to Correctly Enable Flycheck in Babel Source Blocks
If you already have Flycheck turned on then you already have it running your babel source block buffers, but, it isn’t working how you expect it. That buffer hasn’t got a file name. Flycheck can’t be smart about helping you out here. Via this post, the solution follows.
(defadvice org-edit-src-code (around set-buffer-file-name activate compile)
(let ((file-name (buffer-file-name))) ;; (1)
ad-do-it ;; (2)
(setq buffer-file-name file-name))) ;; (3)
This is one of those things that if you had though about it for a few minutes, you would have turned it on yourself. It reveals how easy it is to return to the mode of “application user” from “application designer”, of Emacs. That is the source of most of my dumb “misses” regarding workflow optimizations in Emacs.
How to Handle and Large Slow Org Files
When some of us open large Org mode files, Emacs becomes nearly unresponsive, and nearly unusable. My stock advice has always been to call #+STARTUP: showeverything or do a binary search more or less to figure out which package is stomping Emacs. In this post, though, Puneeth explains that the issue may go away entirely for some of us.