Tag Archives: Emacs

Undo Region

Posted on 2020-01-26 by jcs

Here’s an Emacs feature that I—and, apparently, many others—didn’t know about: Uh this emacs region undo thing is kinda blowing my mind. I had no idea! pic.twitter.com/WWYbZtNIM4 — John Wiseman (@lemonodor) January 24, 2020 That’s a fantastic time and effort … Continue reading →

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Makefiles for Elisp

Posted on 2020-01-24 by jcs

Chris Wellons has another great post over at Null Program. This post discusses how he uses makefiles to build his Emacs packages. If you’re like most Elisp programmers, you probably write only small bits of Elisp to add to your … Continue reading →

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Karl Voit on Starting to Use Org-mode

Posted on 2020-01-22 by jcs

Karl Voit has a nice post in his Using Org Mode Features series. It’s advice on how to start using Org-mode. Org-mode is large and complicated and can seem intimidating. That leads many people to start with someone else’s configuration. … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 64: Notmuch Mail Client

Posted on 2020-01-19 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another video up in his Using Emacs Series. This time it’s about the Notmuch email client and how it compares to mu4e. Zamansky uses mu4e for his work email and Gmail for his personal email but decided … Continue reading →

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How Fast Is Ripgrep?

Posted on 2020-01-18 by jcs

Very fast, it turns out. Arne Babenhauserheide has a great twitter thread on how fast ripgrep is: yes, this is “ripgrep is so fast that I can simply grep through 2 million lines of code for each line in this … Continue reading →

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Using Org-mode To Capture and Report Git Commits

Posted on 2020-01-15 by jcs

Like most developers, Andrea Richiardi has a certain amount of logging and reporting he has to do to document his work. One such item is a report on the commits he’s made while working on various tickets. He wants to … Continue reading →

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Zamansky: ClojureScript 2

Posted on 2020-01-13 by jcs

I’ve written a few posts lately about working in the Slime and Geiser environments to write and experiment with Common Lisp and Scheme code. What’s great about them is that they enable an “interactive programming” style where you can try … Continue reading →

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Emacs Modifier Keys on the Mac

Posted on 2020-01-11 by jcs

If you’re an Emacs user who works primarily on some sort of Mac, you may be interested in a post by Nick Drozd in which he suggests a keyboard layout for avoiding pinky fatigue and all that goes with it. … Continue reading →

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The Undo-tree Bugs

Posted on 2020-01-10 by jcs

One of my favorite packages is undo-tree. It makes a “many branched” sequence of changes easy to fix but to tell the truth the most valuable thing about it for me is the sensible redo functionality. It’s always worked perfectly … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 63: ClojureScript

Posted on 2020-01-09 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another video up in his Using Emacs Series. This video is a little different from his usual fare in that it’s more about using ClojureScript than Emacs, although Emacs does play a prominent role. If you follow … Continue reading →

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