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Emacs and Kanban

Bryan Morris has a post about how he has set up Emacs using org-mode to implement a Kanban board. He uses table mode within org-mode, and hyper-linking to link items within the table, to actual org-mode tasks. To me, this setup seems a little clunky, so I thought I’d describe my current system.

21 November 2011 at 13:54 - Comments

Blogging Process

I have been meaning to blog more for ages. I have had a blog on the internet since early 1990 in one form or other, but I just tend to do sporadic blogging. Every so often I get fired up with communicating and write some blog posts, and then my enthusiam wanes for a while, [...]

5 November 2011 at 17:40 - Comments
Big well done on the regularity Brett - how long does it take you to write a post - on ...
5 November 11 at 20:24
Usually about 20-30 minutes. I'm slowly improving and automating the workflow to make things easier. Currently looking at using Python's ...
5 November 11 at 20:28

Emacs cmd-key on Mac

Emacs on my Macbook Pro uses the “alt” key (the one to the left of the “cmd” key) to be the Alt (meta) key when doing things like Alt-Backspace to delete backwards by word. This is quite annoying for me as I naturally try and use the command key for this. To fix this put [...]

4 July 2010 at 17:38 - Comments

DEVONthink and Emacs Completion

DEVONthink has the annoying habit of starting up if I try to complete a bit of text in Emacs on my Mac. By default DEVONthink is bound in the “Services” menu to Apple-Slash (Command-Slash). To fix this, open up “/Applications/DEVONthink Pro.app/Contents/Info.plist” in Emacs. Do a search for “NSKeyEquivalent” until you see an entry that looks [...]

18 November 2009 at 00:26 - Comments