Tag Archives: Emacs

Zamansky: More Advent of Code and Clojure

Posted on 2020-12-05 by jcs

If you enjoyed yesterday’s post on Mike Zamansky’s use of Clojure and Cider to solve an Advent of Code problem, he has a couple more offerings that you’ll probably like too. Like his last video, these two consider a current … Continue reading →

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Zamansky on Clojure and Cider

Posted on 2020-12-04 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another video up. It’s not quite one of his Using Emacs Series videos but he says it could be as it discusses the Emacs Cider infrastructure. It’s ostensibly about day 3 of this year’s Advent of Code, … Continue reading →

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Repeating Commands in Emacs

Posted on 2020-12-03 by jcs

One of the things that Vi/Vim does much better than Emacs is repeat commands. Pressing . in Vim repeats the last native command. It simple and easy to use and when I was a Vim user, I did, in fact, … Continue reading →

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Keyboards for Emacs

Posted on 2020-11-30 by jcs

One of the most important pieces of kit in our arsenal is the keyboard. It’s easy to treat them as an afterthought but if you do a lot of typing as most of us do, the choice can mean the … Continue reading →

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Cloning a Repository

Posted on 2020-11-29 by jcs

My day has been consumed by yak shaving so today’s offering is just a quickie pointing you to a very interesting post from Álvaro Ramírez. In a situation familiar to all of us, Ramírez noticed that every time he wanted … Continue reading →

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Managing Servers with Org

Posted on 2020-11-28 by jcs

Fragbot has an interesting reddit post talking about using Emacs as a standalone infrastructure that can be shared by others. The idea is that you integrate Emacs into a workflow for use by folks who aren’t normally Emacs users. He … Continue reading →

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Mastering Emacs Update

Posted on 2020-11-27 by jcs

Mickey Petersen’s excellent Mastering Emacs has a new update covering Emacs 26 & 27. If you already have a copy of Mastering Emacs, you’ve probably received an email telling you how to get the update (for free). If you don’t … Continue reading →

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Emacs in the Terminal

Posted on 2020-11-25 by jcs

Wanderson Ferreira (Bartuka) has a project where the code can’t leave a remote machine at the other end of a slow connection. He’s an Emacser but GUI Emacs is too slow to be practical so he moved to terminal Emacs … Continue reading →

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Emacs Should Be Emacs Lisp

Posted on 2020-11-24 by jcs

Back in February at FOSDEM 20, Tom Tromey gave a very interesting talk of how he believes the core of Emacs should evolve. He considers most of the current proposals such as Rmacs, Guile Emacs, and rewriting the core in … Continue reading →

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A Free Blog with Org and GitLab

Posted on 2020-11-22 by jcs

Ravi Sagar has an interesting video that shows you how to publish a free blog to GitLab using Org-mode. The result is a static Web site, of course, and Sagar’s example is very simple but you can use CSS to … Continue reading →

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