Monthly Archives: August 2018

Being Organized with Org Mode

Posted on 2018-08-31 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, rmberYou has a post on how he uses Org mode to get and stay organized. The post is mainly a taxonomy of his Org mode files but his setup may be useful to others. A … Continue reading →

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Magit from the Terminal

Posted on 2018-08-30 by jcs

For those of you who like to work in the terminal, UnwashedMeme over at the Emacs subreddit has a handy tip. It’s an alias that brings up an Emacs buffer with the Magit status buffer. This doesn’t enable any new … Continue reading →

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Copy Sexp at Mouse Position to Point

Posted on 2018-08-29 by jcs

Via Wilfred Hughes, I found this old post to the gnu-emacs-sources mailing list giving a quick and dirty implementation of an old Lisp Machine trick: copying a sexp that the mouse is pointing at to the position at point. Vladimir … Continue reading →

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Why Emacs Is Awesome

Posted on 2018-08-28 by jcs

A few months ago I wrote about Luke Smith’s challenge for others to make a video convincing him to use Emacs. Among those who responded was JimKD who produced a very nice video that showcased some of the great features … Continue reading →

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How A Nerd Counts Stairs

Posted on 2018-08-27 by jcs

Tanya Khovanova recounts an amusing trick she learned from John Conway: how to count the number of steps in a stairway. The obvious answer is to just count them as you walk up the stairs but there’s an additional stipulation: … Continue reading →

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Refreshing the Occur Buffer

Posted on 2018-08-26 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, attrigh asks if there is some way of refreshing the results of an occur when the underlying buffer changes. I’ve never run into a use case where that would be helpful but it’s easy to … Continue reading →

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Actionable Links in Emacs Buffers

Posted on 2018-08-25 by jcs

As most of you know, I do almost all my writing in Org mode so I’m used to being able to follow a URL by typing return on it or with Ctrl+c Ctrl+o. I use this all the time and, … Continue reading →

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Splitting An Org Block

Posted on 2018-08-24 by jcs

Kaushal Modi has a nice post on how to split an Org block. That comes up in the context of, say, writing a literate program and deciding you want to insert some commentary in the middle of the block. A … Continue reading →

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Bumper-Sticker Computer Science

Posted on 2018-08-23 by jcs

Back in the 1980s, Jon Bentley wrote a column for Communications of the ACM called Programming Pearls. The columns typically considered a programming technique or problem and were very popular. The columns were later published in book form as Programming … Continue reading →

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The Emacs Community

Posted on 2018-08-22 by jcs

James Gill has a nice tweet about the community of Emacs users: I’ve never encountered a community like that of #Emacs users. So many with 10, 20, 30+ years using the tool, endless resources and helpful people. And so delightfully … Continue reading →

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