This is my yasnippet template for use when building an org-mode file which will be exported into a’.tex’ file and then you can use my ‘pdfbuild‘ script to convert the latex file into a PDF file with no code lines to be entered, just follow the on-screen prompts.

# -*- mode ...

I’ve recently started using some select Ubuntu ppa repos with debian, and once you know how it is extremely easy to set it all up and get working. So, heres how to do it, using “Homebank” as an example.

Currently in the debian repos, Homebank is showing as stable ...

Recently I’ve been setting up an org-mode file in emacs which holds my entire “init.el” to run emacs from. As its all quite stable now and working well, I’m putting it up here in case others want to try something similar.

Installation instructions

* installation Instructions
Then copy ...

After having quite a few problems when I did my bi-daily, i.e. every other day, build of emacs, I’ve reworked my script which makes it easier to use.

Source code

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This is part of a small series of postings about linux software being at the bleeding edge, i.e. the active development versions. And we kick off with emacs which went into development freeze on the 23rd December last year, and this is version 24.4.50.xx. This is ...

Yasnippet is an extremely good system of ‘boiler-plate’ text for emacs which can be called on for inserting text at the cursor. So far, this post has used two snippets, ‘New Post’ and ‘Lorem Ipsum’. ‘Lorem ipsum’ is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. It has been ...

I’m having great difficulties in getting themes to display properly, this screenshot shows the problem.

Basically I’m having a theme with a light background self-imposing on a theme with a dark background, as seen in the left fringe where the line numbers are, in essence, its a mess ...

I had overwritten one very important file, it was the ’org2blog dashboard’ which held the database of all my org2blog postings so it was quite important. But, I’d overwritten it with another posting saved as ‘org2blog.org’! The creation date of that file was 28 December 2013, so I ...

Another testing blog posting, but this time using BlogWith and everpad to see if it actually works with this too. If it does its a major step forward, although for writing long posts, I still prefer to use emacs. Emacs does spell-checking, everpad doesn’t, not yet anyway. :) This should ...

Org2blog is a brilliant piece of coding and extremely easy to use, but it does have one failing - it can’t handle tables! I’ve found that if you want to use a table in a posting, then create it in a separate buffer, and then export it to html ...

This is my first post using the emacs org2blog mode, where I write the post in my emacs editor and can then just publish it to my wordpress blog with just a few key-presses. This will make things so much easier and means that I won’t necessarily have to ...

C here equals the CONTROL key

C-x C-f calls ’find-file’ which means that it finds a file and reads it to the screen

C-x C-v calls ’find-alternate-file’ which means that it reads a different file.

C-x i calls ’insert-file’ which means to insert a file at the cursors position.