Category Archives: General

Iedit

Posted on 2016-02-21 by jcs

Mbork has posted a sequel to his highlighting post that I wrote about before. This time he discusses iedit. Mbork says you can think of it as Hi Lock mode with the added capability of editing all the highlighted entries … Continue reading →

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The Heisenberg Release Uncertainty Principle

Posted on 2016-02-20 by jcs

Steve Purcell formulates a fundamental law of software engineering Heisenberg's Release Uncertainty Principle says you can accurately know what the software will do, or when you'll get it, but not both. — Steve Purcell (@sanityinc) October 13, 2015

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Why Helm

Posted on 2016-02-20 by jcs

Sean Irby has posted his thoughts on why you should be using helm. Irby argues that helm not only makes navigating the Emacs UI easier but also assists in learning Emacs in much the same way that spelling correctors help … Continue reading →

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Highlighting

Posted on 2016-02-19 by jcs

Mbork has another nice post on some of the lessor known corners of Emacs. This time it’s about highlighting words in a buffer. There are lots of ways of doing that, of course, but they have subtle differences that make … Continue reading →

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Still Think You Have Nothing to Hide?

Posted on 2016-02-18 by jcs

How about sexually explicit pictures from your webcam? Would you like to keep those private? As they point out in the article, the GCHQ capturing random pictures from the webcam is eerily reminiscent of the telescreens in Orwell’s 1984. But … Continue reading →

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Open the Current Buffer’s File in Another Application

Posted on 2016-02-16 by jcs

Ustun Ozgur has posted a video in which he demonstrates his package emacs-friends. The idea is that you provide the package with an association list mapping (your name for) an application to it’s executable and the code automatically generates functions … Continue reading →

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The Mysteries of Perl

Posted on 2016-02-15 by jcs

Those of you who have used Perl will understand this: #perl pic.twitter.com/EeWfpfY9nN — David M. Bradford (@tinypig) January 6, 2016 It turns out, though, that the joke’s on us: Haha yes Perl is ok with it. Just to up the … Continue reading →

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Emacs Tips

Posted on 2016-02-15 by jcs

Davide Giannella has been blogging for some time and has collected a nice set of Emacs tips going back to 2007. Mostly they are the solutions to problems that Giannella ran into and which we could probably figure out for … Continue reading →

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Emacs 25

Posted on 2016-02-14 by jcs

We’re getting there: The second pretest of #emacs 25.1 is out! https://t.co/mSPCryLsDB Give it as much testing as you can! — Nicolas Petton (@NicolasPetton) February 14, 2016 Kudos to everyone working on the new release. We all really appreciate your … Continue reading →

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Autocorrecting

Posted on 2016-02-14 by jcs

Avdi Grimm has posted a nice video demonstrating Artur Malabarba’s autocorrect code. The code is just a bit of Elisp that you paste into your init.el; no packages necessary. Once you have it installed, it allows you to correct a … Continue reading →

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