My Emacs Blog
I’m sure many Org users have experienced this: you reorganize your notes, maybe renaming a file or moving a section to a different Org file, and a few weeks later you open a link in another note only to be greeted by an unexpected prompt: “No match - create this as a new heading?” . Org tries to be helpful, even creating a new buffer for the non-existent file, assuming all along that you are…
Rigorous testing clearly benefits software projects, yet many Emacs Lisp packages have minimal tests. You might think manual testing during development is enough—but that only works if the code never changes and has no evolving dependencies. Automated tests, however, give you the confidence to modify code without fear of unintentionally breaking functionality. They quickly catch issues caused by…
I don't know about you, but when I'm reading something in an Org file and spot a link I want to follow, I instinctively press TAB to jump to it—just like I would in an Info or Help buffer. Using TAB for such field navigation is a common pattern across many applications, including Emacs. It’s also nicely symmetric with Shift-TAB ( S-TAB ), which typically navigates backward. But in Org mode, TAB…
I may be dating myself, but I vividly remember setting up speed dials for my most frequently called numbers on my AT&T landline phone. In the early '90s, you could store a phone number in a numbered memory slot (referred to as "programming") and later dial your grandma, for example, by pressing SPD+2 . Retro is in—so if you're too young to remember that and want to know more, just ask your…