Tag Archives: Emacs

Narrowing To Focus

Arthur A. Gleckler has a nifty post that discusses Emacs narrowing as a way to help with focus. The TL;DR is that sometimes you want to focus on a piece of code or other text and one way to do … Continue reading

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Emacs Wow

Over at the Emacs subreddit, dehaticoder asks what things do you do in Emacs that make people say “Wow”. I’m probably an easy mark but I really love this type of post. They’re always enjoyable and sometimes I even learn … Continue reading

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Red Meat Friday: Avoid The Mouse

_nambiar has a short video on how painful it is to watch people use other editors and reach for the mouse every time they want to do some navigation or select text. He’s an Emacs user but his message will … Continue reading

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More On The Emacs World Time Clock

As I’ve written before, Emacs has a world clock. Well, it’s not really a clock: just a list of times in various cities but it’s great for today’s remote work place. If your colleagues are stationed all over the world, … Continue reading

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Org-linker

I’ve had this in my queue for a while but I wanted to try it out before I wrote about it. Sadly, I just haven’t had the time and probably won’t in the immediate future. Therefore, I’m writing about it … Continue reading

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Using Hook Functions

Arialdo Martini has a nice post on how to configure and use Emacs hook functions. Most Emacs users have a general idea about hook functions but Martini goes into more detail, especially as concerns their use in major modes. The … Continue reading

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Essential Functions

If you’re an Emacs n00b—and despite the ankle biters claiming Emacs is dead, there are a lot of them—İsmail Efe Top has a post that you may find useful. The point of the post is to list some functions that … Continue reading

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A Defense of RSS

As most of you know, I’m a big fan of RSS and use it as my main way of discovering and reading content. It has plenty of detractors but the majority of those are people who are upset that RSS … Continue reading

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Unified Context Switching

James Dyer has a really interesting post on how he used a bit of Elisp to solve one of his workflow problems. He’d recently abandoned his use of save=desktop in favor of recentf. His reasons for switching don’t really matter—although … Continue reading

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Executing All Babel Buffers

Over at the Emacs subreddit, justrajdeep asks an interesting question: If you have several Babel source blocks in an Org document, is there any way to execute all the blocks and get their data with a single command. I often … Continue reading

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