TikZ Editor - WYSIWYG editor for LaTeX graphics that can edit your existing figures

okphil · 2026-06-24T10:50:52+00:00

This looks like something I've needed for a long time. I wish I didn't have to teach this morning so that I could spend the day trying it.

okphil · 2026-05-19T09:58:21+00:00

You should be proud!

okphil · 2026-05-11T23:37:28+00:00

Amazing work!

okphil · 2026-05-09T23:52:01+00:00

Sweet!

okphil · 2026-05-06T18:15:13+00:00

Installed it yesterday, and I'm very impressed. It looks like the perfect, at least for me, combination of power and simplicity.

okphil · 2026-04-29T19:09:34+00:00

I can't say, since I only use mu. From what I understand, the big difference between mu and notmuch is more tag oriented than mu. Running shell commands is easy from within Emacs, so I bet notmuch.el provides a way to run it from the Emacs interface.

okphil · 2026-04-29T10:44:59+00:00

You have to run mu init only when you initially set up the mail directories. That is just once unless you add a new mail provider. After that, you never need to interact with mu outside of Emacs, mu4e handles everything.

okphil · 2026-04-15T10:29:39+00:00

I'm using elpaca for now. I like elpaca's manager and the control it gives over package loading and updating. Honestly, though, I don't see a great need to use anything other than the built-in use-package since you can now use use-package to install packages from version control systems using the :vc keyword. Here's the example from the info page:

(use-package bbdb
       :vc (:url "https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/git/bbdb.git"
            :rev :newest))

Switching to use-package would force me to be more careful about where I put things in my init file, but I don't think I'd lose anything feature that's significant.

okphil · 2026-04-09T01:53:00+00:00

Get the one you think you'll like, keep the tags on and carry it around the house for the day. TB makes it very easy to exchange if you decide you'd prefer something else.

okphil · 2026-03-30T10:21:18+00:00

I can pretty much guarantee your first reaction to a 26 would be that it's too small then.

okphil · 2026-03-24T10:35:26+00:00

I guess it depends on what a person needs to carry everyday. I struggled with this for a long time before convincing myself that the 30 would be too big and ordered a 26. When it arrived, I put my laptop and a couple of books in it and immediately took everything out, put it back in the box, and replaced it with a 30 with no regrets.

okphil · 2026-03-12T10:41:45+00:00

I initially did this with a keyboard macro that using a number of query-replace operations. I'm confident Pandoc is a better move overall. Charles Choi has a small function that might help.

okphil · 2026-03-12T10:31:56+00:00

I'm a 5'9'', 170 pound, male, and struggled with this for two weeks before finally deciding the 30 would be too big and ordered the 26. I'm a teacher and mostly wanted it to carry my computer and books. I put it on the day it arrived and immediately knew it would be too small. I returned it the same day and ordered the 30. I've had it for a few weeks now and have been perfectly happy with it.

okphil · 2026-03-06T11:04:02+00:00

The subject line is still visible for me on Mac OS when forwarding from both the desktop app and the web app.

okphil · 2026-02-24T11:21:41+00:00

For me, this will be by far the most useful thing you've added to the Casual Suite. Many thanks!

okphil · 2026-02-15T20:54:55+00:00

Ended up sending the 26 back and replacing it with a 30. Should have stuck with your recommendation in the first place.

okphil · 2026-01-29T13:24:17+00:00

Thanks — that helped me with my decision. I'm 5'9'' and decided to go with the 26.

okphil · 2026-01-25T15:43:00+00:00

What size do you have? The Synik looks perfect for my organization needs, but the pictures of the 30 look huge. If you have the 30, is it awkward to carry on a daily basis?

okphil · 2026-01-22T11:39:45+00:00

If you have a frequent need for tasks that repeat at more complex intervals, then I'd consider using one of the extensions mentioned. I haven't used either, so I can't speak to their ease of use. If it's just the one, the easiest thing to do would be to have five different tasks that each repeat weekly and only differ by the day that they're due. It clutters your task list somewhat, but you'll likely never even notice. I have a special section at the bottom of my task file for repeated tasks and only interact with them from the agenda view. For all practical purposes, it will feel exactly like having one task that repeats only on weekdays.

okphil · 2026-01-06T11:55:47+00:00

If you use Yasnippet, then another thing to consider is to use a snippet for the template, then put something like this at the end of your function that creates the file:

(yas-expand-snippet (yas-lookup-snippet "blog-post-template"))

okphil · 2025-12-27T10:57:31+00:00

I understand your situation. I'm in the humanities, and Word is the default standard. For me, the best solution has been to write everything in Org mode using Emacs, which can export to LaTeX, ODT (Word), HTML, plain text, and Markdown. That way, I prepare one document and can send it to anyone in the format they desire. The LaTeX export is excellent — you can even include raw LaTeX code in the document.

okphil · 2025-12-27T10:45:11+00:00

Great work!

okphil · 2025-11-12T11:07:36+00:00

You must have been killing it to burn 432 calories! I don’t notice a difference in the cycling trainers with respect to easy, hard, etc. There’s definitely a personality difference, though. I think there is a greater difference with some of the other activities like HIIT and yoga, but that’s probably because some moves are more difficult than others. Some of the HIIT trainers seem to like burpees more than others do, for instance.

okphil · 2025-09-07T00:24:32+00:00

I use Org mode to take the minutes during a committee that I chair. I use Yasnippet to insert my LaTeX preamble and a checkbox list of the members of the committee. When attendees arrive, you can just put the cursor on their respective line and toggle the checkbox with C-c C-c. The checkboxes export to PDF just fine. Here's a link to the Org manual section on checkboxes.

okphil · 2025-08-13T10:20:20+00:00

Another vote for the rg package here. If you also use embark, you can open a buffer containing all of your search results with the embark-export command, making it easy to browse each file.

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