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Monthly Archives: August 2018
Being Organized with Org Mode
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
Magit from the Terminal
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
Copy Sexp at Mouse Position to Point
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
Why Emacs Is Awesome
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
How A Nerd Counts Stairs
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
Refreshing the Occur Buffer
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
Actionable Links in Emacs Buffers
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
Splitting An Org Block
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
Bumper-Sticker Computer Science
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
The Emacs Community
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