How retro can I go? Sketchnotes: visual thinking on paper.

In the possiblyUsefulFoo category

http://www.core77.com/blog/sketchnotes/sketchnotes_101_the_basics_of_visual_note-taking_19678.asp

I'm already using a 35-year-old text editor (emacs, org-mode) for most of my thinking and
writing.    Why not go even more retro?

This is more "amusingfoo" than "usefulfoo"

Unix tool tip (@UnixToolTip) tweeted at 9:24 AM on Thu, Jun 20, 2013: Emacs unfill-paragraph and unfill-region http://t.co/Q9zXOJ86X4 (https://twitter.com/UnixToolTip/status/347706446848356353) Get the official Twitter app at https://twitter.com/download

Adding new Mac OSX keyboard shortcuts

No default keyboard shortcut for  "maximize window" (Zoom).  Sheesh.

And, of course, Emacs does not honor it even when defined.

http://osxdaily.com/2013/03/22/5-simple-window-management-keyboard-shortcuts-to-improve-workflow-in-mac-os-x/

remote git repository as backup/central point ... needs to be "bare"

http://bitflop.com/document/111

Ediff

http://emacslife.blogspot.com/2006/12/ediff-mode-one-of-most-amazing-modes-in.html?m=1

Fix EOL in emacs

Emacs Lisp: Convert Line Ending

Deep magic from the before the dawn of time

If you ever found yourself wanting to execute a sudo(1) command from within block of shell code in a org-bable source code block on a linux system (sure, happens all the time, right?), here's the deep foo to solve the password prompting quandry:

Sylvain Rousseau | 4 Mar 2012 18:29
  
 
Re: Is it possible to run shell script src blocks as root or to export individual blocks?

Under Gnome, I'm using this at the beginning of a sh source block:

 echo -e "#! /bin/bash\n/usr/bin/gksudo -p -m Password" > /tmp/gksudo-stdout
 chmod +x /tmp/gksudo-stdout
 SUDO_ASKPASS="/tmp/gksudo-stdout" sudo -A -s


Sylvain.

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/52979