Monthly Archives: May 2017

A Company-wide Emacs Configuration

Daniel Gopar over at Emacs.el has another of his Emacs chats up. This time he talks to Charles Lowell from Frontside Software. What’s interesting about Frontside is that they have a company-wide, shared Emacs configuration. All the developers use the … Continue reading

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Running Your Life from Your Smart Phone

Back in February, I wrote that more and more functions are being moved into our smart phones. That includes things like ATM cards, credit cards, driver licenses, and even unlocking doors. This is something I welcome—although Noonian Atall pushes back … Continue reading

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Jumping Directly to Org Headers

Last week I wrote about finding out about counsel-imenu from Arjen Wiersma’s Emacs configuration. Today, I discovered something new about it. Filipe Silva was looking for a way to jump to an Org mode heading using fuzzy completion. There were … Continue reading

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How to Make Swiper Choose the Second or Subsequent Match on a Line

Chanyoung is a Swiper user and asks a question I’ve sometimes wondered about: when using swiper, how do you choose the second or subsequent match on a line? If you follow the above link, you will see that abo-abo himself … Continue reading

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Comey and Feinstein At It Again

James Comey and Dianne Feinstein are at it again pressing for legislation to compel device manufacturers to enable law enforcement to bypass device encryption. In a sense, nothing is new. Comey is trotting out the same arguments—many or most of … Continue reading

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Going to the Beginning and End of Special Buffers

Way back in 2013 Magnar Sveen published a nice bit of Elisp for moving to the beginning and end of a dired buffer. By beginning and end, he meant the logical beginning and end: the first and last line of … Continue reading

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Email With Notmuch and Astroid

If you’ve been hanging out at Irreal for any time at all you know that I’ve recently moved my email to mu/mu4e. There are two aspects to that. The first, and the one that I’ve mostly written about, is that … Continue reading

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LSP Coming to Emacs?

Those of you who follow the Emacs scene will remember that last year there was a big kerfuffle about whether or not GCC should export its AST so that Emacs, for instance, could use it to provide better syntactic and … Continue reading

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Storing Secrets

In my never ending crusade to move as many functions as possible into Emacs, I’ve lately been dealing with functions that require a user name and password. For example, part of the mbsync configuration that downloads my emails requires a … Continue reading

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Arjen Wiersma’s Emacs Configuration

I was trolling through the Emacs tweets when I saw one entitled “Emacs 25.2 Released” with a link to a video. I thought it was going to be a discussion of the new things in Emacs 25.21 but it turned … Continue reading

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