Author Archives: jcs

I really like JSON. It’s the perfect mechanism for serializing data; much better, in my opinion, than the typical XML solution. That said, I don’t use it enough to justify installing one of the really nice packages that deal with … Continue reading →

Last week I wrote about David Andersson’s Key Chord Mode that I discovered in the latest Emacs Rocks video. I thought it was interesting and I enabled it in my Emacs by adding (require ‘key-chord) (key-chord-mode 1) (key-chord-define-global “dq” ‘dq) … Continue reading →

Tim Visher has another VimGolf in Emacs video up. This one has some interesting applications of the Emacs calc function. As I mentioned on my old blog, I use a Scheme REPL as my calculator so I’ve never bothered to … Continue reading →

Xah Lee has released an interesting package called lookup-word-on-internet.el, which he describes on his Web site here. It will take the word at point or a phrase in an active region and look it up in Google, Wikipedia, Dict.org, Answers.com, … Continue reading →

Just a quickie today. If you have a large and complicated Emacs init file you might wonder how long it takes to process it. Perhaps you should compile it. Maybe it doesn’t matter. How are you to know? It turns … Continue reading →

One of the things about Emacs is that buffers tend to hang around for a long time. This is especially true if you’re using desktop-save-mode. Most of the time this isn’t a problem but every once in a while the … Continue reading →

Magnar Sveen has a new episode of Emacs Rocks up. This time he talks about key-chord.el, a package that lets you press two keys simultaneously (or a single key twice in quick succession) to run a command. For example, I … Continue reading →