Tag Archives: Emacs

Bastien’s Org-mode Tricks

Posted on 2020-02-10 by jcs

If you follow the Emacs scene, you’ve probably seen some references to Bastien Guerry’s post on Org-mode Features You May Not Know. There’s been several tweets about it and, of course, Sacha covered it in her Weekly Emacs News. If … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 66: An Eshell Switcher

Posted on 2020-02-08 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another video up in his Using Emacs Series. The video is about his trying to use eshell more and building an eshell switcher so that he can easily switch among his active eshell instances. I really like … Continue reading →

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Finding Intersections Redux

Posted on 2020-02-07 by jcs

Last month, I published a post on Finding The Intersection of Two Lists. The impetus for the post was an Emacs Stack Exchange question asking if there was a better way to find the intersection of two lists than looping … Continue reading →

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Restoring the Elfeed Default Filter

Posted on 2020-02-06 by jcs

I’m a very happy user of Chris Wellons’ excellent RSS reader, elfeed. It has a very powerful search/filter function that lets you control what entries will be displayed and to search for an older entry that you want to revisit. … Continue reading →

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Thought of the Day

Posted on 2020-02-05 by jcs

From Karl Voit, we have this bit of wisdom: Brodie and Stonebraker define a #legacy system as “any information system that significantly resists modification and evolution to meet new and constantly changing business requirements”. According to this, #Emacs will definitely … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 65: Live Python

Posted on 2020-02-03 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another video up in his Using Emacs Series. This time the video is about the live-py-plugin. The link takes you to the master GitHub repository that has code for Emacs, PyCharm, and Sublime Text. There’s a tutorial … Continue reading →

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Keeping a Table Header Fixed While Scrolling

Posted on 2020-02-01 by jcs

Bastien Guerry tweeted about a really awesome new Org-mode feature: The latest #emacs #orgmode (from the master branch) allows you to turn on M-x org-table-electric-header-mode RET to always keep the first row of your table in sight. pic.twitter.com/E3Bpw1G3a1 — Bastien … Continue reading →

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Spacemacs for Writers

Posted on 2020-01-31 by jcs

Frank Jonen has an interesting GitHub repository to help non-technical people use Spacemacs for writing. Jonen says that his interest in using Emacs for writing and the resulting repository were inspired by Jax Dixit’s talk for the New York Emacs … Continue reading →

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Finding The Intersection of Two Lists

Posted on 2020-01-29 by jcs

I recently saw an Emacs Stack Exchange Question on how to find the intersection of two lists. The questioner asked if there was a better way than the obvious solution of looping over both lists looking for matches, a \(O(mn)\) … Continue reading →

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Org Mode 9.3.2

Posted on 2020-01-28 by jcs

Bastien writes that Org Mode 9.3.2 has been released. It’s a bug release so no new features but if you are experiencing problems with Org, you should consider upgrading. Even if you aren’t seeing problems, it’s probably a good idea … Continue reading →

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