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Repeating a Command

Posted on 2016-09-17 by jcs

Zachary Kanfer has a nice post on how to repeat a command with a single keystroke. A familiar instance of this is the old-style keyboard macro execution. After defining the macro, you can execute it with 【Ctrl+x e】 and then … Continue reading →

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On Emacs Being an OS

Posted on 2016-09-16 by jcs

Katherine Cox-Buday has a lovely 8-tweet long sequence in which she outlines how she uses Emacs to perform a periodic, tedious chore. It’s worth looking at to see if you can get some ideas from it. Here’s the last tweet … Continue reading →

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Capturing Images with Org Mode

Posted on 2016-09-15 by jcs

Back in January, I came across a post by Arne Babenhauserheide on capturing images into Org. It looked interesting but required Image Magick, which doesn’t play well with OS X1. I thought at the time that it would be pretty … Continue reading →

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Abrams on Yasnippet

Posted on 2016-09-14 by jcs

Howard Abrams over at howardism.org has posted a very nice tutorial on yasnippet. I learned a couple of things I didn’t know so you may find it worth a few minutes too. First off, I was only dimly aware that … Continue reading →

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Copying Text with a Mouse in OS X and Emacs

Posted on 2016-09-13 by jcs

Ben Maughan over at Pragmatic Emacs has a nice tip for those of you using Emacs on OS X. It turns out that it’s easy to copy text to the kill ring with a mouse. I agree with Maughan that … Continue reading →

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Refactoring with counsel-ag

Posted on 2016-09-12 by jcs

Back in January of 2015, I wrote about an excellent post from abo-abo on his refactoring workflow. If you haven’t read his post be sure to take a few minutes to read it. The basic idea was that he wanted … Continue reading →

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Put imenu Output in a Buffer

Posted on 2016-09-11 by jcs

Grant over at Wisdom and Wonder has a short post that points us to imenu-list. That’s a minor mode that puts the output of imenu into a separate buffer where you may find it easier to work with. If you … Continue reading →

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Calling eww from Dired

Posted on 2016-09-10 by jcs

If you have files that you read in eww, here’s a suggestion that might make your workflow a bit easier: (define-key dired-mode-map "e" (lambda () (interactive) (eww-open-file (dired-get-file-for-visit)))) e opens from #dired with #eww in #emacs — ε (@goaoio) July … Continue reading →

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Learn Elisp with Xah

Posted on 2016-09-09 by jcs

Xah Lee is running a one month long Elisp tutorial. Everyday he points you to one of his Elisp pages and then gives a quiz or assignment to test your knowledge of the material. The course has been going on … Continue reading →

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Emacs Configurations for LaTeX

Posted on 2016-09-08 by jcs

There’s been a lot of tweets and posts on Reddit lately asking about Emacs configurations to support writing \(\TeX\) and \(\LaTeX\). Here’s an example from anasrchid. He asks the typical question: how should I configure Emacs and what packages should … Continue reading →

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