Category Archives: General

Magit Tutorial

Posted on 2013-06-07 by jcs

John Stevenson over at jr0cket has a nice Magit tutorial up. If you’re using Emacs and Git then you definitely need to check out Magit. I get mine from Melpa but the link above leads to the Git repository if … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Emacs, Magit | 1 Comment

VimGolf in Emacs

Posted on 2013-06-05 by jcs

It’s been a while since we Emacs enthusiasts have locked horns with the users of that other editor. Here’s a simple VimGolf challenge to warm us up. Starting with the buffer one two three end up with (one) (two) (three) … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Emacs | 22 Comments

Elisp for Common Lisp Programmers

Posted on 2013-06-03 by jcs

Jean-Philippe Paradis Tweets a thought about Common Lisp programmers learning Elisp that seems to me to be exactly right. I’ve expressed the same idea myself but not nearly as succinctly or neatly.

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Responsible Disclosure

Posted on 2013-06-02 by jcs

Most Irreal readers are familiar with the concept of responsible disclosure: the idea that if you discover an exploitable flaw in a site or piece of software, you should contact and inform the folks responsible for the site or software … Continue reading →

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Sacha Chua Chats With Bastien Guerry

Posted on 2013-05-31 by jcs

For those of you who aren’t familiar with Org Mode, here’s a bit of the back story. Carsten Dominik, an astronomer, originally wrote Org Mode as a small extension to outline-mode to help with his note taking and list management … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Emacs, Org-mode | 2 Comments

A Smarter Way to Move to BOL

Posted on 2013-05-30 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov over at the excellent Emacs Redux has a particularly good tip on improving move-beginning-of-line (mapped to 【Ctrl+a】 by default) so that it moves first to the leading non-blank character of the line and then to the absolute beginning … Continue reading →

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A Query for Mac Emacs Users

Posted on 2013-05-29 by jcs

I was just reading Bozhidar Batsov’s latest post on deleting whitespace—nice tip on just-one-space by the way—and noticed that he had to rebind just-one-space from 【Meta+Space】because that key sequence is reserved by the OS X for Spotlight. I’ve observed that … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Emacs | 15 Comments

Eshell

Posted on 2013-05-28 by jcs

Back in February I wrote about switching from bash to John Wiegley’s eshell. I’ve been really happy with eshell but have used it pretty much as I would bash. Recently, I saw a tweet that pointed me to this Mastering … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Emacs | 3 Comments

So True

Posted on 2013-05-26 by jcs

Don Taylor has it just right in this tweet. Well, maybe more than just a useful editor.

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Emacs vs. Vim

Posted on 2013-05-24 by jcs

Steven Harms has1 a nice take on the Emacs/Vi holy wars. His idea is that the two sides are actually talking about different things. As we’ve discussed many times here, Emacs is about the ultimate customizable work environment. It provides … Continue reading →