Emacs

I wrote ebook-notes.el, an Emacs Lisp package, to streamline the process of importing highlights and notes from an Amazon Kindle’s “My Clippings.txt” file directly into Org mode files. It automatically handles the association of notes with their corresponding highlights and prevents the import of duplicate entries. To make life interesting, I decided to try using a LLM to “help”. I used Google’s Gemimi 2.5 Flash model. Don’t judge me. This was research! ...

Using Windows is .. a challenge. Running tramp in emacs, especially so.

Emacs For MacOS (installed via Homebrew) doesn’t use /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp. Let’s fix that.

I was reading a book this week and I wanted to use one of the images in a presentation. ...

Creating ebooks in Emacs with orgmode is easy

My Emacs configuration to allow reading EPUBs

Including beautifully rendered equations is easy in Org Mode. ...

There are various discussions around the conflict between Org Mode and yasnippet and how to fix it. This is how I got them to play nicely together. You can read about my other Emacs configurations . (use-package yasnippet :init (defun yas/org-very-safe-expand () (let ((yas/fallback-behavior 'return-nil)) (yas/expand))) :hook ((emacs-lisp-mode . yas-minor-mode) (python-mode . yas-minor-mode) (org-mode . yas-minor-mode) (org-mode . (lambda () (make-variable-buffer-local 'yas/trigger-key) (setq yas/trigger-key [tab]) (add-to-list 'org-tab-first-hook 'yas/org-very-safe-expand) (define-key yas/keymap [tab] 'yas/next-field)))) :config (setq-default yas-snippet-dirs `(,(expand-file-name "snippets/" user-emacs-directory))) (yas-reload-all)) GNU Emacs 28.1 Org mode version 9.5.3 YASnippet 0.14.0 ...

This is my blog. The design isn’t revolutionary. ...

Fixing Emacs’ unknown and untrusted authority TLS error at Vifortech Solutions - Blog