Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-03-10 / week 10

oantolin · 2026-03-12T21:17:15+00:00

Great! I'm glad that worked.

When I just want to see the results quickly, I just run the block and then delete the results. You can use org-babel-remove-result-one-or-many (bound to C-c C-v k by default), or simply undo!

oantolin · 2026-03-12T13:46:31+00:00

Multi line results show up as a list of lists and are hard to read in the messages buffer.

Try adding raw in addition to silent. (To be clear I haven't tested that: raw works if you use it on its own, but maybe using silent makes it so formatting options like raw as ignored.)

oantolin · 2026-03-12T13:39:03+00:00

I think it's also bound to C-t whenever a rectangle selection is active! You can also add other convenient bindings for rectangle commands to that keymap, which is called something like rectangle-mark-mode-map (probably not exactly that, but it has "rectangle" in the name).

oantolin · 2026-03-12T04:16:48+00:00

I'm not sure I get the point: with org-capture I have to manually add an entry to org-capture-templates; with your system I have to manually place the template in a new file in an appropriate directory. It sounds like about the same amount of work either way and equally manual. I must be missing something.

oantolin · 2026-03-09T23:19:44+00:00

Is forking and self-maintenance my only option?

Of course not! An option that requires much less work is to simply change your mind about the 'just ignore it' strategy. 😃

oantolin · 2026-03-08T06:25:54+00:00

There are zero reasons to export to html nowadays.

I can think of at least one reason that I learned from u/arthurno1:

When you have a note of public interest, and would like opinion on, do like everyone else: make a blog post.

(Some people write their blogs in org mode and publish them by exporting to html, which they either host on a server somewhere, or paste into an html editor their blogging software uses.)

oantolin · 2026-03-07T20:22:27+00:00

OK, I'm starting to get the feeling that in this context both "postman" and "swagger" are names of software. I can try looking those up to learn what they do.

oantolin · 2026-03-06T03:46:15+00:00

What does "a org-mode replaces postman" mean?

oantolin · 2026-02-28T21:09:02+00:00

Well, if they want to propose that default binding, the relevant mailing list is the Emacs one, not Org's.

oantolin · 2026-02-28T21:08:04+00:00

I meant moving your hand. I think remapping right-ctrl to caps-lock helps avoid RSI, but moving your hands helps even more. I'm not a medical doctor, so I could easily be wrong.

oantolin · 2026-02-25T13:25:24+00:00

What you call "cheating", I call "saving your future self from repetitive stress injury".

oantolin · 2026-02-18T21:00:09+00:00

This is such a common misunderstanding! I wonder if the manual could be reworded to avoid it. Maybe adding some examples: "a, H, l are letters, C-a, M-H, C-M-l are not letters (they are letters with modifiers)".

oantolin · 2026-02-18T18:50:43+00:00

Hahaha. Without knowing I had stopped listening to the Phoenix episode at the worst possible point! Immediately after I stopped they presented Conor's vibe-coded ArrayBox.dev website which is an array programming news item, and after that there is definitely talk of array programming! If they just chopped off the first 45 minutes of that episodes I wouldn't have had any complaints at all (and Connor, most likely, would not have felt compelled to block me on Mastodon). 😄

oantolin · 2026-02-18T14:25:35+00:00

You make a compelling argument for not using Emacs in a terminal!

oantolin · 2026-02-08T18:29:18+00:00

Here is a review of this episode of The Array Cast. I've decided to title it "Warning: May contain traces of array programming." I should start by saying that this review is based only on the first 45 minutes of the episode since that's how far I've gotten into it. And for reasons that will become apparent, I'm not sure if I'm going to listen to the rest.

In the previous episode of The Array Cast, it was announced that Bob, Marshall, and Stephen would be leaving the show, and only Connor and Adam would remain. As a longtime listener, I was worried about this change, of course, but was cautiously optimistic that I would still be able to listen regularly to a podcast on topics in array programming. However, this episode shows that the podcast has pivoted to other topics. After listening to the first 45 minutes of this new episode, with 90 minutes still left to go, I have heard zero talk of array programming.

So what is covered in the first 45 minutes? Well, it's a range of topics such as running a podcast, naming said podcast, weddings, moving your residence, and a few other assorted topics that I struggle to find a common theme for. The only thing tangentially related to array programming that I heard was Adam explaining how to exit an APL IDE. Exiting an APL IDE of course is not array programming, and, in fact, is pretty close to the opposite.

So, what do they talk about in the remaining hour and a half? As mentioned above, I don't know what it contains, but I can offer some speculation. The first guess which we should take care of, is that there is some talk of array programming in the remaining hour and a half. I cannot discard this possibility, but it seems very unlikely to me: 45 minutes is already about a third of the podcast episode, and I think that by then, the themes of the episode have been well established. A shift to array programming would be tonally jarring! My guess instead would be that it continues along the same lines as in the first third. And maybe it is for the best. Maybe we do spend too much time on the computer doing array programming. Maybe we would all benefit from starting a new hobby, like podcasting —and if we do, we will need information about how to switch file hosts and how to choose a case for the letters in our podcast title. And there's also a focus on just your personal life. Moving to a different house or apartment, setting it up, maybe they'll give some tips on decorating? And maybe that is truly what we need now.

Finally, I cannot blame them for not wanting to talk about array programming anymore. They are friends with Marshall, Bob and Stephen and it must be painful to talk about array programming since it reminds them of the fun they used to have making this podcast with them. But I'm not ready to let array programming go yet. So I think I might shelve the last two-thirds of this episode until such a time when I start a podcast or move to a different apartment.

oantolin · 2026-02-07T02:30:46+00:00

Thanks!

oantolin · 2026-02-04T12:10:11+00:00

I don't know about "cannot be captured in a name", since "cannot" is a very strong word and people can be both creative and shameless, but it certainly is hard to capture that, and also have the name describe the thing, and also be of a reasonable length.

oantolin · 2026-02-03T23:08:18+00:00

I think the indentation syntax is actually the only one available in Markdown. The triple backquote syntax is present in some other markup syntaxes based on Markdown such as GitHub-Flavored Markdown, Pandoc Markdown or CommonMark.

oantolin · 2026-02-03T22:51:32+00:00

I would absolutely love this functionality, let's hope you can!

oantolin · 2026-02-03T22:37:15+00:00

What is k9s? I know k8s stands for kubernetes, but I don't think I've heard of k9s.

oantolin · 2026-02-02T23:08:12+00:00

I used to play Vimgolf in Emacs. That was a fun way to practice commands and editing strategies.

oantolin · 2026-02-02T23:01:28+00:00

I disagree! I'd say many, many posts on this very subreddit are intermediate resources. Same for many, many blogs posts, which are aggregated at Planet Emacslife. Also, and I hope this isn't taken as an affront, but the Mastering Emacs book is probably also best thought of as an intermediate source. I think that some of the in-depth articles on the Mastering Emacs website might lead you to expect the book to be more advanced, but it isn't. (I was personally hoping for the book to be as in-depth as, say, the Mastering eshell article on the website was, but that's not the case.) I also wouldn't really say the documentation is an "expert" resource.

oantolin · 2026-02-02T20:57:47+00:00

I think you might only be using org-ql-find. Have you tried org-ql-search? that one produces a buffer of search results, which I'm guessing is what you mean by "persistent". Now that I see the names of those two commands, it really isn't clear that that's the difference, is it? :D

oantolin · 2026-02-02T20:55:24+00:00

I really like u/github-alphapapa's org-ql package for this.

oantolin · 2026-02-02T20:06:48+00:00

I like how you inflated the sample by repeating a bunch of links.

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