Tag Archives: Emacs

Exporting Org to HTML

Posted on 2021-02-17 by jcs

Jake B has a helpful video on exporting Org files to HTML. Irreal readers almost certainly knows how to do this so why am I writing about it? As you know, you can tweak your Org file to pull in … Continue reading →

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REPL Driven Development

Posted on 2021-02-14 by jcs

David Vujic has a nice post on interactive programming—what he calls “REPL driven development”—and the huge difference it’s made to his development workflow. His post, Test Driven Development Deluxe, recounts his frustration with having to switch context from the code … Continue reading →

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Fixing Two Spaces Between Sentences

Posted on 2021-02-13 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has an interesting post on how to deal with two spaces after a sentence when transferring data from Emacs to an external application via the clipboard. The problem is that mbork likes to use two spaces so … Continue reading →

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(goto-char 1) vs. (goto-char (point-min))

Posted on 2021-02-11 by jcs

Here’s a short tip for all you Elispers that clears up an obscure point about moving around in buffers. For a long time I’ve been dimly aware that the preferred way to move to the start of a buffer is … Continue reading →

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Video Demonstration of Org-roam

Posted on 2021-02-09 by jcs

If you’re wondering what org-roam is all about, there are a couple of useful videos over at the YouTube Emacs Elements channel. The first video explains what org-roam is and how it works. It works through a couple of examples … Continue reading →

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Emacs Editing

Posted on 2021-02-08 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, WorldsEndless has an interesting post that considers Emacs as a text editor. That is, how convenient is it to edit text with Emacs, putting any of its other virtues aside. He considers both the built-in … Continue reading →

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Mouseless

Posted on 2021-02-07 by jcs

If you grew up with computers using a GUI interface, the idea of not using a mouse probably seems ridiculous. Why would anyone want to do that? As I’ve said in other contexts, you can live without air conditioning too … Continue reading →

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An Example of Literate Programming

Posted on 2021-02-04 by jcs

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m ambivalent about literate programming. I love the idea of it and absolutely agree with all its claimed strengths but I’ve never been able to embrace it in practice. The major problem, I think, is that … Continue reading →

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Transient Mark Mode

Posted on 2021-02-03 by jcs

If you’ve been an Emacs user for a while, you probably know what transient mark mode is and you might even know that its use is—or was—controversial. It used to be disabled by default but in Emacs 23 the default … Continue reading →

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Symlink Copying with Dired

Posted on 2021-02-01 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a handy tip concerning something I didn’t know about. If you use dired—as you should—for your file operations and you know that you can use C to copy one or more files. By default, the command, … Continue reading →

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