I don't know why I'm patient with emacs, but I am.

org-babel using :results replace raw: "Oh, that just doesn't work and it's undocumented that it doesn't work. raw doesn't provide enough hooks for Babel to know where the output ends. Use drawer instead.

Me and other environments: "That's bullshit, that's stupid, how is this not documented, I can't deal with this."

Me and emacs: "Oh, yeah, I can totally see why that is. Teehee."

#emacs #orgbabel

The one downside to getting deeply into emacs.

#emacs #orgmode #orgbabel

Slowly coming around to using org-babel for most of my config files in emacs.

Here's where it's helpful: putting down context of why I added something or what I was trying to accomplish when I did. The trickiest part of using my own emacs config is that it's over twenty years old now and half the things I put in there I put in to support a very specific use flow that I don't even necessarily do anymore.

#emacs #orgbabel #orgmode

Really enjoying this month’s #Emacs Carnival on #orgmode — especially the focus on #orgbabel!
Huge thanks to @donaldh for curating the topics.

For me, #orgbabel is where documentation, data, and computation truly meet — it turns notes into living, reproducible workflows.

I’ve written down why I think org-babel is a *ROOT technology*:
https://lukascbossert.de/posts/org-babel/

#Emacs #ROOT #LiterateProgramming

Importing screenshots into org files in Windows.

https://blog.fixermark.com/posts/2025/screenshots-into-org-files-in-windows/

#windows #emacs #orgmode #orgbabel

https://screwlisp.small-web.org/emacs/writing-experience/

My #emacs #writing #writingExperience #emacsCarnival submission.

Discussing my transition to #eev away from being a heavy user of the popular #orgmode.

My writing primarily concerns #lisp #programming, so the difference between #eepitch and #orgBabel features heavily.

Looking forward to hearing from everyone including the other emacs carnivalians.

CC @greg (Writing Experience emacs carnival host)

#Pikchr (pikchr.org) is a great little piece of software from the SQLite folks. It parses a little language for describing diagrams with boxes and lines and things, and puts out SVG.

#OrgMode (orgmode.org) has, among many other things, a way you can make code notebooks, #OrgBabel. Like #Jupyter, but less webby, and inside #Emacs, and supporting many languages - even multiple in the same document - thence its name.

Thanks to the ob-pikchr package by @SReyCoyrehourcq, Pikchr is one of the languages you can just write in the middle of your document this way.

Pikchr supports #darkmode, and I've just made a pull request that gets ob-pikchr in on the dark-mode game.

https://github.com/reyman/ob-pikchr/pull/1

Many thanks to Sebastien for the help ob-pikchr has provided in diagramming my thoughts! You go use it too!

#FreeSoftware

🧬 Ghostwritten Infrastructure: From Org Mode to Hardened YAML #Emacs #OrgMode #Ansible #Yaml #IaC
#LiterateDevOps #OrgBabel #TangleThatYaml #DeadSwitchWay
#DevOpsTools #LinuxAutomation #CyberGhostOps
#TechWriting #TomITCafe #SilentOps

http://tomsitcafe.com/2025/04/19/%f0%9f%a7%ac-ghostwritten-infrastructure-from-org-mode-to-hardened-yaml/