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A small #Emacs #OrgMode quality-of-life tweak. I often need to replace an org heading's title while preserving the original text in the body. The problem is that pressing enter on a heading inserts a line above the properties drawer, which breaks things.

Here's a function that moves the heading title into the body (below the properties drawer and metadata), and binds it to S-RET:

(defun my-org-demote-title-to-body ()
  "Move the current heading's title into the body, below the metadata.
  Point returns to the heading for editing."
  (interactive)
  (org-back-to-heading t)
  (let* ((element (org-element-at-point))
         (title (org-element-property :raw-value element)))
    (org-edit-headline "")
    (save-excursion
      (org-end-of-meta-data t)
      (insert title "\n"))
    (org-beginning-of-line)))

(defun my-org-shift-return ()
  "On a heading, demote title to body. In a table, copy down."
  (interactive)
  (cond
   ((org-at-heading-p) (my-org-demote-title-to-body))
   ((org-at-table-p) (org-table-copy-down 1))
   (t (org-return))))
  (define-key org-mode-map (kbd "S-<return>") #'my-org-shift-return)

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5d ago

In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

Srijan Choudhary Mar 7

jack Mar 7

I love what’s achievable with Free Software.

I can sync reading progress across my e-reader with #koreader, my phone with #readest and I’ve now hacked together a way of syncing them with #emacs Nov mode. The code needs cleaning up a bit and I’ll put it on Codeberg soon.

Srijan Choudhary Feb 5

cehteh Nov 25

I wasn't satisfied with the existing 'minimap.el' for #emacs. Hold my 🍺!

Here comes scrollpanel, a (hopefully/argueable) better minimap for #emacs.

https://seed.pipapo.org/nodes/seed.pipapo.org/rad:z2hyKqTqB77vt7UqsTgrqHkC83j8h

I don't know #elisp very well so I had to rely a bit on a coding agent, which was a pain. Finally it works for me now. Still needs some cleanup. When anyone is interested, try it out. Patches and help improving it would be greatly welcome.

Srijan Choudhary Jan 29

Abhinav Tushar Jan 29

On the sides I have been making a small health records app that stores data in #emacs #orgmode files and attachments. No cloud, subscription, or sharing of data with any third party provider, unless you explicitly do that by sharing your files.

It was primarily for personal uses and is not yet feature complete and the UX is not optimal, but is still usable in ways.

Here is the documentation https://docs.lepisma.xyz/harp/

F Droid builds are available here https://f-droid.org/packages/xyz.lepisma.harp in case you want to try it out and give feedback.

Index - Harp: Private Health Records

Srijan Choudhary Jan 15

Dave Marquardt Jan 7

New blog "Keeping appointments from my Org agenda updated" https://davemq.github.io/2026/01/07/org-agenda-to-appt-timer.html

#emacs #org #orgmode

Keeping appointments from my Org agenda updated

Among many other things, Emacs’ Org mode manages tasks and allows you to easily see an agenda of tasks that are scheduled or approaching a deadline. Emacs also has an appointments system that shows scheduled appointments at various times ahead of time. Org provides org-agenda-to-appt to create appointments from your agenda items.

Dave’s Blog

Srijan Choudhary Dec 29

Faced a failing disk in my raidz2 ZFS pool today.

Recovery was pretty simple:

Asked the service provider to replace the disk

Find new disk ID etc using:

lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,MODEL,SERIAL,LABEL,FSTYPE
ls -ltrh /dev/disk/by-id/ata-*

Resilver using:sudo zpool replace lake <old_disk_id> <new_disk_id>

Watch status using:watch zpool status -v

Re-silvering is still ongoing, but hopefully completes without issues. Will run a manual zpool scrub at the end to make sure everything is okay.

Srijan Choudhary Dec 24

Arthur Amalvy Dec 16

For #emacs >= 31, I just learned that it's finally possible to hide all minor modes in the modeline with a single line and no dependencies!

(setq mode-line-collapse-minor-modes '(not))

For more info on what you can do with this see C-h v mode-line-collapse-minor-modes

Srijan Choudhary Dec 15

A small elisp snippet that I found useful. I often switch between terminals and Emacs, and they have slightly different behaviors for C-w. This makes it behave the same in Emacs as it does in bash/zsh/fish etc - deletes the last word. It retains the kill-region behavior if a region is actually selected.

(defun kill-region-or-backward-word ()
  "If the region is active and non-empty, call `kill-region'.
Otherwise, call `backward-kill-word'."
  (interactive)
  (call-interactively
   (if (use-region-p) 'kill-region 'backward-kill-word)))
(global-set-key (kbd "C-w") 'kill-region-or-backward-word)

Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13844453/how-do-i-make-c-w-behave-the-same-as-bash

How do I make C-w behave the same as bash?

In bash when I press C-w it kills the word before the cursor. In emacs, it yanks the region but when there is no active region it kills forward. So I have to press M- to (backward-kill-word) How do I

Stack Overflow

Srijan Choudhary Dec 9

(link: https://github.com/jsadusk/tramp-hlo text: tramp-hlo) looks interesting. Anything that can make tramp snappier is a good thing in my books.
https://srijan.ch/notes/2025-12-09-002

GitHub - jsadusk/tramp-hlo: High level operations as tramp handlers

High level operations as tramp handlers. Contribute to jsadusk/tramp-hlo development by creating an account on GitHub.

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