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The paperboy has been laid off, but fear not, for Danny and Derek are here with the headlines. This week: in Israel-Palestine, detainees were exchanged on Thursday (0:31), the IDF continues its operation in the West Bank (6:05), an update on the humanitarian situation in Gaza (7:40), and Trump proposes the idea of ethnically cleansing the Strip (10:34); in Lebanon, the IDF ignores its withdrawal deadline (15:02); in Syria, the political transition continues (17:00), the IDF remains in the country’s south (19:04), and negotiations with Russia are underway over its bases in Syria as well as the fate of Bashar al-Assad (20:32); the rollout of China’s DeepSeek AI roils tech stocks (23:00); the Sudanese army sees a string of military successes around Khartoum (25:24); in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the M23 military group takes Goma while advancing south (27:59); Putin comments on peace talks regarding Ukraine (32:43); Colombia and the US get into a spat regarding deportation flights (34:12); and in US news, arms sales hit a new record in 2024 (37:16), Donald Trump vows to build a migrant detention facility at Guantánamo (38:20), and some details on the effects of his foreign aid freeze (39:35). 

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I use Orgzly Revived on my phone to capture to-do items, tasks, writing ideas, and projects. Its files are then synced with an ownCloud server. Those same files are also constantly open in Emacs on my computer, which means there can be some gnarly issues with things getting out of sync. It took me a while to figure out a good way to manage this, and in this brief blog post, I would like to share my solution.

Setting up a remote storage system is outside the scope of this server. Orgzly Revived works well with Dropbox, ownCloud, and nextCloud, though support for the other two is nicer as it can support automatic syncing in more situations. The Orgzly Revived documentation has an excellent description of how that configuration works.

Note that to keep things simple, I keep my Orgzly Revived files and only those files in a directory on my remote server. On my computer, the location for these files is ~/org/orgzly/, which is how I shall refer to it later on.

Configuring Orgzly Revived Auto-sync

To configure the auto-sync capabilities in Orgzly Revived, go to the settings screen in the app and then navigate to Sync > Auto-sync. Ensure that the following options are toggled on:

• Auto-sync
• Note created
• Note updated or deleted
• App started or resumed

This ensures that Orgzly Revived is constantly checking your remote storage and both fetching and uploading changes.

Configuring Emacs and Org-mode

On my computer, I want any changes that Orgzly Revived has updated to be automatically loaded into Emacs. Since I always leave Emacs running, that means it needs to detect changes on the disk for those particular files. I use two different methods to do this. First, in my init file, I have the following piece of code:

(setq orgzly-directory (expand-file-name "~/org/orgzly/"))
(add-to-list 'revert-without-query (rx bol 
                                       (eval orgzly-directory) 
                                       (+ (not "/")) ".org" 
                                       eol))

This uses the rx macro to easily create a regular expression that matches any filename ending in ".org" in the directory containing Orgzly Revived files. You may need to play around with the regular expression to get the right match. By adding those files to revert-without-query, Emacs will not bug you with extra questions and confirmations when changes are detected. However, this only works when auto-revert-mode is enabled!

At first, I thought there may be a way to enable auto-revert-mode on a file-by-file basis, but quickly realized that this could cause too many problems with creating new files in the Orgzly Revived app. Eventually, I realized that the solution would be to make a .dir-locals.el file in ~/org/orgzly/. Open that file in Emacs, and stick the following in it.

((nil . ((eval . (auto-revert-mode 1)))))

That ensures that any file in that directory will have auto-revert-mode enabled.

Once you have done this, you can add task files or inbox files in ~/org/orgzly to your org-agenda-files variable, and they will show up in your agenda views as usual.

Hopefully these instructions work for you. Please let me know if you can see any improvements or problems with the way I have implemented this. Happy task tracking!

One of the goals of many Emacs users is to be able read and write Org entries on their phones or tablets. There are several solutions for this. On the Android platform, one of the most popular was Orgzly. Sadly, Orgzly is no longer under development but its user base stepped up with orgzly-revived to keep the project alive.

Erik L. Arneson is an Orgzly-revived user and wants to automatically sync the Orgzly-revived files on his phone with the Emacs files on his computer. Since those files are always open on his computer, syncing them was a problem.

Arneson found a way to do this using ownCloud and the built-in syncing functions of Orgzly-revived. One problem was that the files on his computer had to be marked auto-revert so that Emacs would reread them when they were changed on disk.

His solution for this was to put all the files that he was sharing with Orgzly-revived in a separate directory and then use a directory local variable to specify that all files in that directory should be marked as auto-revert.

Orgzly-revived is, of course, just one app that allows sharing files between Emacs and your phone or tablet, and it’s for Android only. There are other apps, some for Android, some for iOS that do roughly the same thing. All of them, in order to be useful, need to be able to sync files between Emacs and the remote device. The details of doing this will doubtless vary but it’s likely that the files on Emacs will need to be marked auto-revert so Arneson’s trick of using a directory local variable is worth knowing.

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Problem Statement

My personal desktop is not booting (the motherboard is probably dead) so I have been setting my server so I can work while sorting things out.

I got stuck in getting magit working in emacsclient: I thought I could run ssh-add inside of Emacs that would allow magic to access my git repos using ssh, but apparently, it is not the case.

After some digging, I learnt that the problem I have to solve is to run one ssh-agent in the background and then make the Emacs/Magit or any programs hook onto it. Then once I run ssh-add and type the passphrase for the first time, either inside of Emacs or in a bash terminal, everything would work.

Implementation

Drop the following unit file below to ~/.config/systemd/user/ssh-agent.service.

[Unit]
Description=SSH key agent

[Service]
Type=simple
Environment=SSH_AUTH_SOCK=%t/ssh-agent.socket
ExecStart=/usr/bin/ssh-agent -D -a $SSH_AUTH_SOCK

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

The important things are

1. The environment variable SSH_AUTH_SOCK is specified. It can be anywhere as long as this environment variable in other programs points to the same location.
2. ssh-agent is invoked with the -a option to provide an address specified in the above step.

The $t is a specifier¹ in systemd, it is equivalent to $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR variable in Debian. It points to the runtime temporary directory which apparently is safer² than the /tmp directory. The runtime directory was cleaned up after stopping the ssh-agent so it is non-persistent.

To start the ssh-agent service:

 
systemctl enable --user ssh-agent
systemctl start --user ssh-agent

After that, update the unit file of Emacs to include this line (follow up my blog post Managing Emacs Server as Systemd Service for the full setup).

Environment=SSH_AUTH_SOCK=%t/ssh-agent.socket

To make it work for bash shell and all other programs calling from a bash terminal, add this line to ~/.bashrc.

 
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK="$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/ssh-agent.socket"

Alternatives

There are programs developed to solve this specific problem (see Debian wiki). While using such a program seems like a simpler alternative (e.g. keychain), I prefer to use systemd as the unified approach for managing background services. I have been using it for emacsclient, and I’m adding ssh-agent to it.

What is your preference? How do you solve this problem?

Footnotes

¹ All the specifiers are listed here.

² I am not a security expert but the StackExchange comments seem to make sense.

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In this 25-minute video I show two ways to organise your Emacs init.el file. One approach is to keep editing the code in Emacs Lisp and to leverage the “outline”, while the other is to use a literate Org file whose code blocks will be “tangled” to the init.el. I explain all the technicalities and show examples. More resources:

• Basic and capable Emacs configuration: https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2024-11-28-basic-emacs-configuration/
• Modern minibuffer (Vertico, Consult, etc.): https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2024-02-17-emacs-modern-minibuffer-packages/
• Ediff basics: https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2023-11-17-emacs-ediff-basics/
• My Emacs configuration:
  • Web page: https://protesilaos.com/emacs/dotemacs
  • Source: https://github.com/protesilaos/dotfiles
  • Video explanation: https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2023-12-18-emacs-org-advanced-literate-conf/