Monthly Archives: March 2018

Florian Adamsky has a very nice post on handling acronyms in LaTeX documents. Good style dictates that the first time you use an acronym, you should provide the full written out definition. Later instances can just use the acronym. That’s … Continue reading →

Eli Zarestskii has announced that barring any difficulties coming to light, the Emacs 26.1 RC1 should be released next week. Zarestskii expects that that will be followed in short order by the release of Emacs 26.1 itself. Relative newcomers to … Continue reading →

Grant Rettke has an interesting take on abo-abo’s Hydra package. His idea is that you can use hydras for a sort of lightweight literate programming. Most Irreal readers are already aware of hydras’ utility as a way of gathering related … Continue reading →

Karl Voit captures my feelings about Emacs exactly: Seeing #Emacs as an #editor is like seeing a car as a seating-accommodation.#PIM #orgmode #informationcentric #vim #editorwar #IDE #opensource — Karl Voit (@n0v0id) March 4, 2018

I stumbled across the package Auto-YASnippet, by the prodigious abo-abo, again the other day. I vaguely remember reading about it a couple of years ago when it was first released. The idea is to create a temporary yasnippet on the … Continue reading →

Mike Zamansky has another video up in his Using Emacs Series. This time he discusses Artur Malabarba’s agressive-indent-mode and abo-abo’s Auto YASnippet. In what could be an example of great minds thinking alike but is more likely simply a quotidian … Continue reading →

My current workflow has two ways of grepping collections of files. For grepping Git repositories, I use counsel-git-grep. It uses the fast grep built into Git as a backend. For other collections, I use counsel-ag, a recursive grep that uses … Continue reading →

Mike Zamansky has a new video up in his Using Emacs Series. After commenting on what a great time it is to be an Emacs user, Zamansky considers Autocomplete and Company mode. These, of course, are completion packages for Emacs. … Continue reading →