Tag Archives: Emacs

A Palindrome Predicate Coda

Posted on 2020-01-07 by jcs

As I wrote yesterday, I upgraded my Common Lisp environment to SBCL 2.0 so of course I wanted to try it out. Writing Lisp programs in the excellent Slime environment that Emacs provides is truly a pleasure that I haven’t … Continue reading →

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SBCL 2.0.0

Posted on 2020-01-06 by jcs

Steel Bank Common Lisp has a new version out. I haven’t been writing much Common Lisp lately so I haven’t kept the software up to date. SBCL makes a new release every month and I always compile from source so … Continue reading →

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Adding System Notifications to Your Org Agenda

Posted on 2020-01-04 by jcs

If you’re a Unix/Linux/MacOS user, chances are you have one or more cron jobs set up to handle routine maintenance chores. Cron jobs are an extraordinarily useful tool to make a lot of busy work disappear. Still, sometimes things go … Continue reading →

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Why (or Why Not) Switch to Emacs

Posted on 2020-01-01 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou has a very nice, detailed video that addresses the question of switching to Emacs. His approach to Emacs is, it seems to me, the correct one. He starts by stating—emphatically—that Emacs is not an editor; it’s a Lisp … Continue reading →

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Emacs for Writers

Posted on 2019-12-31 by jcs

Jacob Moena has a long post on using Emacs for creative writing. He begins by explaining why anyone would want to do such a thing. Of course, Emacsers already know the answer: Emacs will make you more productive, especially if … Continue reading →

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Query Replace with Occur

Posted on 2019-12-28 by jcs

Over at (with-Emacs, Clemens Radermacher has posted a short tutorial on using occur and query-replace across several files. It’s sort of a riff on abo-abo’s post on refactoring multiple files. To a first order approximation, the idea is to use … Continue reading →

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Org Mode 9.3.1

Posted on 2019-12-27 by jcs

Batien writes that he’s released Org 9.3.1. It’s a bug fix so you should probably update if you’re having any problems with Org 9.3. I updated yesterday and haven’t had any problems. Of course, that’s a study of \(n=1\) so … Continue reading →

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Implementing Palindrome Predicates

Posted on 2019-12-26 by jcs

Joe Marshall is a long-time Lisper with an ability to come up with really elegant solutions. Indeed, the second ever Irreal post was about Marshall’s brilliant solution to a problem from SICP. Recently, he recounted a story about a recent … Continue reading →

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Emacs Screencasts

Posted on 2019-12-25 by jcs

Over at Meta Redux, Bozhidar Batsov, who will need no introduction to Emacs users, has a nice post on how to make a screencast from within Emacs. The result is actually an animated GIF but the results in his demo … Continue reading →

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Emacs 27 Release Branch

Posted on 2019-12-24 by jcs

Eli Zaretskii writes on the Emacs Development list that he’s created the Emacs 27 release branch. Next up is the Emacs 27.1 pretest, which he hopes to release soon. He’s also set the version number of Emacs on the Master … Continue reading →

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