Monthly Archives: September 2016

Org Babel and Applescript

Posted on 2016-09-30 by jcs

Grant Rettke over at Wisdom and Wonder points to an interesting project that integrates Org Babel and Applescript. If you’re a Mac user and sometimes work with Applescript (or even if you want to play around with it) you should … Continue reading →

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Reevaluating Local Variables

Posted on 2016-09-29 by jcs

An odd but very useful feature of Emacs is (file) local variables. This allows you to specify certain Emacs variables either on the first line of a file or at the end in a special Local Variables block. Typical uses … Continue reading →

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Tramp and cd

Posted on 2016-09-28 by jcs

I try to use ehsell as much as I can when I need to drop into the shell. That way, I stay in Emacs and still have the power of Emacs available. The other day in a post about something … Continue reading →

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Is Emacs Really Hard to Learn/Use?

Posted on 2016-09-27 by jcs

J. Pablo Fernández has another one of those posts that drive me crazy. His thesis is that Emacs is hurting Clojure because it’s hard to learn and use or something. It’s a silly, even risible, argument. His complaint is almost … Continue reading →

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Version 2 of Mastering Emacs is Out

Posted on 2016-09-26 by jcs

Just got my Mastering Emacs update. Mickey has put out version 2 to incorporate new material reflecting changes in Emacs 25.1. The upgrade is free to current owners; You should be getting an email from Mickey. If you don’t already … Continue reading →

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Using ace-link with Org Mode

Posted on 2016-09-25 by jcs

I was checking the ace-link page and discovered something I didn’t know. You can also configure ace-link to work in Org mode. When invoked, ace-link-org will build the typical avy tree—such as you get with ace-jump and friends—and allow you … Continue reading →

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Kill This Buffer

Posted on 2016-09-24 by jcs

[Editorial Note: Sorry about the lousy formatting. Org2blog is misbehaving again so I had to paste the HTML into the WordPress editor.] Ben Maughan over at Pragmatic Emacs has a really nice tip. It’s one of those things that you … Continue reading →

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PSA: SSH Suddenly Asks for Passwords in OS X

Posted on 2016-09-23 by jcs

Background If you’re an OS X user who uses SSH keys to SSH to remote machines and have just updated to Sierra you may have noticed that SSH has suddenly started asking for a password. My situation is that I’ve … Continue reading →

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An Example of pcase-lambda

Posted on 2016-09-22 by jcs

Over at the Emacs reddit, instant_sunshine has an example of using pcase-lambda. It’s not used very often but can be useful if you have to write functions that need to look inside Lisp objects. The documentation for pcase-lambda is a … Continue reading →

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Blogging Woes

Posted on 2016-09-21 by jcs

I finally got yesterday’s post up by generating the HTML from my Org source file and then pasting it into the WordPress editor. I’m still not sure what’s happening. Very occasionally I can push a post with org2blog but most … Continue reading →

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