Category Archives: General

Truism of the Day

Posted on 2014-09-06 by jcs

Buggy software can easily induce superstition in its users. — Wilfred Hughes (@_wilfredh) September 5, 2014

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Progress Indicator for Org-Mode Code Blocks

Posted on 2014-09-06 by jcs

Via Grant Rettke, here is a nice snippet of code from John Kitchin that gives a visual indication of when an org-mode code block is executing. It’s just a defadvice around org-babel-execute-src-block so it’s easy to modify to suit your … Continue reading →

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Sacha Chats with Mickey

Posted on 2014-09-04 by jcs

Sacha Chua has her latest Emacs chat up. This time it’s with Mickey Petersen proprietor of the excellent Mastering Emacs. If you follow the Emacs scene at all, you will be familiar with Mickey and his definitive articles on the … Continue reading →

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Transposing Words

Posted on 2014-09-03 by jcs

Howard Abrams has a nice video on transposing words in Emacs. You might think that there’s not much to say about the subject: just type 【Meta+t】 and you’re done. Of course there’s also the fact that you can use it … Continue reading →

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Temporary Syntax Tables

Posted on 2014-09-01 by jcs

Xah Lee has a nice post on how to temporarily modify a syntax table. It’s not something you want to do everyday, of course, but the example Lee gives is a real-world case. It turns out that it’s pretty easy. … Continue reading →

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Another Reason Closed Source is Harmful

Posted on 2014-08-31 by jcs

Open Source/Free Software includes a number of tribes. There are the FSF true believers, epitomized by RMS, who hold that software should be free on philosophical/ideological grounds. Even if one could adduce facts showing that Free Software was less optimal … Continue reading →

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Extending Isearch

Posted on 2014-08-29 by jcs

Nicolas Petton presents a nice bit of Elisp that extends the isearch functionality. With his code, you can search for the symbol at point or the active region if there is one. The first of these is easily accomplished using【Ctrl+w】from … Continue reading →

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Tramp with Multiple Hops

Posted on 2014-08-28 by jcs

The Emacs Tramp package is a wonderful thing. With it, you can easily edit files on remote machines in a virtually transparent fashion. Most Emacs users are familiar with Tramp and use it to edit files on machines on the … Continue reading →

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Awesome Emacs

Posted on 2014-08-27 by jcs

If you’re new to Emacs, after you learn the basics, can navigate around in buffers, and deal with finding and saving files you’ll probably start looking for packages that can help streamline your work flow. ELPA makes installing those packages … Continue reading →

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Wisdom

Posted on 2014-08-26 by jcs

Some wisdom from Bozhidar Batsov Question is incorrectly formulated. Any "Can I do X in #Emacs?" should be written "How do I do X in Emacs?". — from SO via @ssapunkova — Bozhidar Batsov (@bbatsov) August 22, 2014

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