Tag Archives: Emacs

Bad Emacs Advice

Posted on 2022-01-27 by jcs

The incomparable Mickey has a few words to say on Bad Emacs Advice. Mickey and I have been using Emacs for approximately the same amount of time and although we are both still learning, we agree that there’s some well … Continue reading →

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Combining Find and Grep in Emacs

Posted on 2022-01-24 by jcs

One of the classic Unix idioms is to search all files in a file hierarchy for some regular expression with a find/grep pipeline. For example, to search the lisp directory and all of its subdirectories for file containing the mapcar … Continue reading →

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Adding To a Keyboard Macro

Posted on 2022-01-23 by jcs

Wilfred Hughes’ Emacs Command of the Day Twitter feed has a useful tip: Have you ever created a great keyboard macro, but wanted to add a few more keystrokes at the end? `C-u F3` will run the keyboard macro, and … Continue reading →

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MELPA Surpasses a Quarter Billion Downloads

Posted on 2022-01-22 by jcs

From Steve Purcell: More than a quarter of a billion package downloads via @melpa_org to date, wow 🎉 — Steve Purcell (@sanityinc) January 18, 2022 I’ve said this before but it bears repeating: We all owe Purcell our thanks and, … Continue reading →

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Corner Quotes

Posted on 2022-01-19 by jcs

John D. Cook has a useful post on using “corner quotes” (⌜ ⌟) to delimit regular expressions in text. As Cook says, it makes a lot of sense especially when the regular expression begins or ends with a space. Cook’s … Continue reading →

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Exporting Variables From Org-mode to LaTeX

Posted on 2022-01-16 by jcs

Franco Pasut has posted on exporting variables from Org to LaTeX. The TL;DR is that you can define LaTeX macros defining a variable value in #+LATEX_HEADER: entries at the top of the Org file and then interpolate the variables in … Continue reading →

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Source Block Executors

Posted on 2022-01-15 by jcs

Isa Mert Gurbuz (isamert) has a very interesting post on using Org Babel to interactively deal with Web APIs. Starting with Zweifisch’s ob-http, he queries a site and gets some JSON returned. The ob-http code even allows you to pipe … Continue reading →

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The Second Emacs 28 Pretest

Posted on 2022-01-12 by jcs

Some more splendid news from the Emacs front: the second Emacs 28 pretest is out. There’s a lot of great features coming in Emacs 28 so please give it all the testing you can. It always seems as if progress … Continue reading →

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Emacs Calc Video

Posted on 2022-01-11 by jcs

Over at the Calculator Culture Youtube Channel they have a nice Introductory video on the GNU Emacs calculator otherwise known as Calc. The thing about Calc is that’s it’s gigantic. It’s not Mathematica but it seems like it can do … Continue reading →

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Finding Repeated Words

Posted on 2022-01-06 by jcs

Years ago, Albert Heinle was writing his thesis. A common error that many or most writers must deal with is using the same word repeatedly in close proximity. I certainly do and so did Heinle. He was using Emacs and … Continue reading →

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