From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: "Thomas S.Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
Cc: Erik Hetzner <egh@e6h.org>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs & org mode for scholars questions
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:23:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zj1fb7uo.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m28u8z71rm.fsf@tsdye.com> (Thomas S. Dye's message of "Tue, 25 Aug 2015 06:48:13 -1000")
On Tuesday, 25 Aug 2015 at 06:48, Thomas S.Dye wrote:
[...]
> If you'll be talking to Emacs developers, then my advice would be to
> thank them for their good work. The stable platform they've developed
> supports the most congenial scholarly writing environment I can
> imagine.
[...]
> established by Org mode's creator, Carsten Dominik, a scholar and writer
> himself. Early on, he recognized the potential of Babel and the support
> and guidance he offered Eric Shulte and Dan Davison were integral to the
+1 to all of the above. We don't say this often enough probably: many
thanks are owed to all of the above people including the very many emacs
developers as you say. I am reminded of this every time I have to use
something like MS Office tools or Libreoffice for some task...
> It would be great to have a customization tool whose effects are
> buffer local, sensitive to the task at hand, and easily accessed by
> the user.
I increasingly have
,----
| # Local Variables:
| # eval: (esf/execute-startup-block)
| # End:
`----
at the bottom of my org files to do just that, putting document specific
settings in an (Emacs lisp) org babel src block named "startup" which is
invoked by this code:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(defun esf/execute-startup-block ()
(interactive)
(org-babel-goto-named-src-block "startup")
(org-babel-execute-src-block))
#+end_src
The only problem is that many of the variables I would like to customise
are global to the emacs instance and so cause problems if I am editing
more than one document which may have different requirements. A greater
move towards buffer local variables would be of great benefit.
Or, knowing Emacs's capabilities, it is probably already possible to do
this and I just don't know how to do it... ;-)
> But, really, I can't imagine doing my scholarly writing outside of
> Emacs.
+∞
--
: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.50.2, Org release_8.3.1-176-g45abec
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-25 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-25 5:38 emacs & org mode for scholars questions Erik Hetzner
2015-08-25 13:51 ` John Kitchin
2015-08-25 15:04 ` Matt Price
2015-08-25 15:16 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-08-25 20:18 ` John Kitchin
2015-08-26 9:30 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-08-26 10:39 ` John Kitchin
2015-08-26 11:07 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-08-26 13:04 ` John Kitchin
2015-08-25 16:10 ` Suvayu Ali
2015-08-26 13:06 ` John Kitchin
2015-08-27 5:21 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-08-27 10:31 ` John Kitchin
2015-08-25 16:48 ` Thomas S. Dye
2015-08-25 17:23 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2015-09-02 4:03 ` Erik Hetzner
2015-09-02 10:40 ` John Kitchin
2015-09-03 2:00 ` Erik Hetzner
2015-09-05 0:29 ` John Kitchin
2015-09-05 14:08 ` Thierry Banel
2015-09-04 6:44 ` Christian Wittern
2015-09-04 7:45 ` Rasmus
2015-09-02 11:00 ` Rasmus
2015-09-02 12:33 ` Xebar Saram
2015-09-02 12:51 ` Rasmus
2015-09-02 13:17 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-02 14:53 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2015-09-03 2:10 ` Erik Hetzner
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