Monthly Archives: April 2013

An Up-To-Date Paredit Reference Card

Posted on 2013-04-05 by jcs

I learned something new from Magnar Sveen’s excellent Emacs Rocks! episode on Paredit: the paredit-convolute-sexp command (bound to【Meta+?】). It’s hard to describe exactly what it does so check out the video to see it in action. The thing is, I … Continue reading →

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Iain M. Banks

Posted on 2013-04-04 by jcs

The careful Irreal reader will have noticed the quote from Iain M. Banks in the upper right corner of the blog. The quote comes from Excession, my favorite of Banks’ Culture Novels. It’s a description of metamathics, which Banks describes … Continue reading →

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Smartparens Video

Posted on 2013-04-03 by jcs

Irreal readers who follow the comments will be familiar with Fuco, one of our best EmacsGolf/VimGolf in Emacs solvers. In addition to making me feel inadequate about my Emacs Fu, Fuco is also the author of smartparens. You can think … Continue reading →

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Some Handy Electric Modes

Posted on 2013-04-02 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov is blogging up a storm on his new Emacs Redux blog. The other day, he mentioned a couple of useful modes that, since Emacs 24.1, are built in. The first is electric-pair-mode. It provides the automatic pairing of … Continue reading →

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Opening Emacs Files in External Applications

Posted on 2013-04-01 by jcs

Xah Lee has a nice post that shows how to open files in an external app or on the desktop from Emacs. When opening files in an external application, the current visited file will be opened unless you’re in a … Continue reading →

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