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Consistent Technical Documents Using Emacs and Org Mode
A demo of writing technical documents in Emacs Org mode using org-babel, so that code blocks and generated content stay consistent when things change. The author shares the demo files and his dotfiles.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters recommend it as a practical illustration of what Org mode and literate programming can do for documentation.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- spudlyo
- Topic
- emacs org mode documentation
- Format
- demo
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Org mode supports inline Latex that can be exported to html. Here's a nice demo on how to write tech docs using Emacs and Org mode [VIDEO]
d0mine on Hacker News · 2020-06
In Text-Only WebsitesI made a video[0] showing off the power of org-babel, which is the part of org that lets you embed dynamic code blocks in your document. In the video I write a little essay[1] on how git stores data that has a lot of dynamic …
spudlyo on Hacker News · 2021-03
In From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (2015)Org mode does a lot of different things, but one use case I find interesting is to be able to mix prose and program output in a technical document in a way that keeps things consistent when things change. I made a video[0] a year …
spudlyo on Hacker News · 2021-08
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