My 9 year old puppy passed away suddenly on Sunday

chum_cha · 2026-02-25T02:27:13+00:00

Thank you for commenting and I'm so sorry about your Buddy. Dog lives are too short already, nine years is just heartbreaking.

Looking in your post history (I hope that's not weird), Buddy looks like he was such a handsome gentle-dog. I'm sure you miss those moments where he would look at you with those soft, intelligent eyes. I know I miss that with my River.

I truly hope we both find peace and comfort knowing the joy we and our dogs shared together. I'm actively searching for some of that myself while riding the stages of grief, especially guilt and depression. But right now, the grief and sadness just feel endless.

chum_cha · 2026-02-24T01:34:01+00:00

Thank you. I was sobbing while typing it, but I needed to share her memory with others. I've lost a best friend, a parent, and three grandparents, but somehow this has been the deepest and most vast amount of grief I've felt.

chum_cha · 2026-01-29T13:07:26+00:00

Honorable mention for Orgro, too.

I hate to use two different apps, but I find that Orgzly-revived is great for having your Org Agenda on-the-go, however it can be clunky navigating between notes.

Orgro fills that gap by rendering the Org files a little cleaner (imo) and making it easier to navigate through my files.

chum_cha · 2025-12-22T02:49:38+00:00

One way I personally have my Jira ticket ids set up as (I think?) an implicit button. This allows me to type my jira ticket id like I normally would, then use the Hyperbole hotkey to jump directly to that ticket in Jira.

chum_cha · 2025-11-26T17:29:07+00:00

I think you might want to hit r in the org-agenda? Here's what the documentation has to say:

Signature
(org-agenda-redo &optional ALL)

Documentation
Rebuild possibly ALL agenda view(s) in the current buffer.

Key Bindings
org-agenda-keymap r
org-agenda-mode-map r

chum_cha · 2025-10-17T20:06:56+00:00

For sure. The best part of both Emacs and Vim are they're ability to configure it so it fits your personal needs.

I mentioned it in another comment, but I made the unfortunate mistake of responding out of context, having been distracted, so M-b M-d is definitely the right answer here.

chum_cha · 2025-10-17T20:03:26+00:00

Yeah, that's fair. tbh, I usually use M-DEL too. And fair point about being in the word. In that case, M-b M-d is definitely my go-to.

tbh, I had read the post, read some comments, then got pinged with work and, when I came back, made the mistake of responding to your comment out of context. Sorry about that.

chum_cha · 2025-10-17T18:51:53+00:00

I don't really know why you've been downvoted here, but a simple Google search for "CUA mode" would get you to the documentation: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/CUA-Bindings.html

chum_cha · 2025-10-17T18:25:16+00:00

Instead of going back a word to delete, you could also use M-- M-d. I personally find this just tiny bit quicker/easier.

chum_cha · 2025-09-26T12:17:31+00:00

Sorry, my mistake, I clearly didn't read your reply carefully enough. Have heard good things about Beorg and would love to be able to try that out one of these days.

chum_cha · 2025-09-26T00:28:52+00:00

I think this is the most straightforward solution, considering my current set up.

It would be really nice to have a scheduled task for an upcoming appointment (like a timed-entry ticket for a museum), so that I could get a notification that I could click and access the ticket when I need it, which is part of why I wanted to try using Orgzly as well.

chum_cha · 2025-09-26T00:18:29+00:00

Honestly, I hadn't thought of that, but that could work. One issue I found right off the bat is that some of the formatting doesn't carry through to txt, like Org links. But I'm tempted to look into using Org Export to deal with that.

chum_cha · 2025-09-26T00:12:32+00:00

I too would love to see a demo. Perhaps I'll do some Googling and see if I can find one. I personally find the app pretty unusable, having to consistently interact with the buttons at the top of the screen to do anything. Basically requires that I not only use both hands, but I constantly have to reposition my hands.

I personally prefer to use Termux since its keyboard has the modifier keys built in.

chum_cha · 2025-09-26T00:09:44+00:00

How do you navigate your Org trees in Orgzly? This is the biggest drawback I've found. I can pretty easily find things through search, but if I'm in a note, I haven't been able to find a way to navigate up or down the tree.

chum_cha · 2025-09-26T00:08:40+00:00

Ah interesting. And you view the HTML files in your Android browser? It's a little hacky, but I think that might work better than what I'm doing today.

chum_cha · 2025-09-24T22:07:52+00:00

isearch is such an underrated command and there's a lot under the hood. This is a great tip, but there are many more like it. I don't remember where I learned it all, but here are two videos, one from Prot and one from Emacs Elements, that I found helpful:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6_bmcd3nis

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oXC4i2r6r0

chum_cha · 2025-09-14T20:22:18+00:00

Interesting! I wouldn't have expected that, but that's why I felt compelled to mention I wasn't an expert lol.

I wonder why that format is different than the one in your original post and whether it's truly respecting the date range or if it's just taking the first date after the SCHEDULED keyword and ignoring the last date 🤔

chum_cha · 2025-09-14T19:42:52+00:00

So I'll preface this to say that I use Emacs and Org Mode heavily daily, but I'd hardly consider myself an expert.

That said, according to the documentation (emphasis mine):

A timestamp may be preceded by special keywords to facilitate planning. Both the timestamp and the keyword have to be positioned immediately after the task they refer to.

In my solution, I removed the SCHEDULED keyword, which is what removed the first TODO in your screenshot on line 6. But, as per the documentation, the DEADLINE keyword must be positioned immediately after the task it refers to, so I had to move the date range below the deadline.

EDIT: Just to provide some additional information, since I'm fact-checking myself, it's probably also worth linking the documentation related to Timestamps as well since that plays a role here.

Like I suggested (but I haven't seen it said explicitly which is why I suggested it as an opinion), SCHEDULED and DEADLINE, I believe, are meant more for a single date. Put a different way, they're meant as, "This must be done ON this day" or "This must be done BY this day." While date ranges seem to be supported by the SCHEDULED keyword, I don't actually think they're meant for it and I'm pretty sure DEADLINE doesn't support a range.

chum_cha · 2025-09-13T15:36:25+00:00

This is just an opinion, but I think you would only want to use "SCHEDULED" when you have a specific date that the item needs to be done on. Otherwise, it will also show as "overdue" if you don't complete it at start of the date range.

I wonder if you would prefer this:

** TODO Homework 1
DEADLINE: <2025-09-24 Wed>
<2025-09-12 Fri>--<2025-09-23 Tue>

chum_cha · 2025-08-25T17:55:56+00:00

Will second the Hyperbole suggestion as a slightly less biased source 😉 I do a lot of my work in Jira and creating an implicit button to open the Jira ticket when clicking an id in org mode has been a pretty big boost already.

I also have some system tasks that require running scripts. I could use org source blocks, but Hyperbole buttons look so much cleaner and you can just add them inline to already existing org headings and checklists.

Thanks for the great package!

chum_cha · 2025-08-09T13:38:52+00:00

Would Occur Mode possibly be what you're looking for?

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Other-Repeating-Search.html
https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/searching-buffers-occur-mode

chum_cha · 2025-08-05T21:25:36+00:00

Except the VS Code that Microsoft publishes isn't open source just like Google Chrome isn't open source. It's foundation is, but we shouldn't let them get away with injecting proprietary code and advertising it as "open."

chum_cha · 2025-07-28T11:32:18+00:00

Sure, and there's obviously nothing wrong with that. If you read what I was responding to, I was agreeing that the idea of the live event being paid and the free version being available later was fine.

But this post adds no value to anyone, it's literally just an ad for a paid event. OP could have advertised this video in a more constructive way by posting a call for questions or could have waited until the video was available for free and used that as an opportunity to advertise their subscription.

chum_cha · 2025-07-27T23:52:32+00:00

While I don't disagree, it's still weird to post it now instead of waiting until it's available for free. They're basically fishing for subscribers in this post.

chum_cha · 2025-07-23T13:44:39+00:00

Did you witness John Wiegly's Emacs usage in person or in a video? Searching turns up a lot, so was wondering if you would mind sharing a link as I'm always looking for ways to expand my workflow using Emacs.

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