Tag Archives: Emacs

Kitchin on Elisp Data Structures

Posted on 2021-10-04 by jcs

John Kitchin has another video up on his Scimax Channel. This time, it’s about elementary Elisp data structures and their manipulation. He considers Strings Lists Vectors Alists Plists Hash tables Strings aren’t really a data structure in the sense of … Continue reading →

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Inspired Python

Posted on 2021-10-03 by jcs

All Irreal readers are, I’m sure, familiar with Mickey Petersen who, in addition to his excellent Emacs site, Mastering Emacs, is also the author of a book by the same name. The articles on his site are among the best … Continue reading →

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Emacs 28 Is Drawing Near

Posted on 2021-10-02 by jcs

Eli Zaretskii writes that he’s cut the release branch for Emacs 28.1 in preparation for the upcoming pretest. He asks that everyone tracking Emacs development switch to the new branch so that it can get as much testing as possible. … Continue reading →

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Org-mode 9.5 Is Out

Posted on 2021-09-30 by jcs

Bastien writes to tell us that Org-mode 9.5 has been released. The big thing about the release is the new citation engine but there are lots of other changes too. You can see what’s in the new release by perusing … Continue reading →

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Make Scripts Executable Automatically

Posted on 2021-09-29 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov has a splendid tip over at Emacs Redux. I’m pretty sure he’s mentioned it before but it’s so useful it bears repeating. The tip is how to make scripts executable. “Scripts” means a file that has a shebang … Continue reading →

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Easy Draw

Posted on 2021-09-28 by jcs

The other day, I wrote about line drawing tools in Emacs. For those who like interactive systems, I mentioned ditaa, which takes an ASCII art diagram and turns it into a pretty PNG file. AKIYAMA Kouhei (misohena) has a project … Continue reading →

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Spanish Punctuation in Org-mode

Posted on 2021-09-27 by jcs

The other day, I saw this tweet from John Cook’s TeX Tips Twitter account: Spanish punctuation: Can use !` and ?` for inverted exclamation points and question marks. — TeX and Typography (@TeXtip) September 24, 2021 I was vaguely aware … Continue reading →

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Writing Elisp Functions

Posted on 2021-09-25 by jcs

John Kitchin is back with another in his series of videos comparing Python and Elisp programming. This time it’s about writing Elisp functions. Earlier, Kitchin made a video discussing how to write Python functions. This video is a followup that … Continue reading →

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Drawing Diagrams in Emacs

Posted on 2021-09-23 by jcs

Junji Zhi has an interesting post on drawing diagrams in Emacs. He wanted to draw diagrams for system modeling and do it from within Emacs. There are several ways of accomplishing that but Zhi chose Mermaid. It basically provides a … Continue reading →

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Iteration with Elisp

Posted on 2021-09-22 by jcs

John Kitchen has important things to do so naturally he’s procrastinating. That’s probably bad for him but it’s good for us because he has another Elisp video up. This one considers various ways of iterating in Elisp. Earlier, he had … Continue reading →

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