Emacs Extension: An Elegant Hack
2025-09-13
This article details how the author used Emacs' powerful extension mechanism to elegantly solve the problem of automatically sorting reading lists in Org-mode. While Org-mode itself doesn't offer a direct extension point, the author cleverly leverages the `advice-add` function to insert custom code after `org-set-regexps-and-options`, achieving custom sorting. This highlights Emacs' philosophy of encouraging extensibility, offering flexible solutions even where dedicated extension points are absent. The author's approach, while arguably a bit brute-force, perfectly illustrates the power of Emacs extensibility.
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