Tag Archives: Emacs

Emacs or Vi

Posted on 2019-09-06 by jcs

It’s Friday so it’s time for a little red meat. I usually wouldn’t release another video so soon, but I wanted to finally settle this important question in honor of Labor Day. (Plus, it’s only a minute or so long.) … Continue reading →

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Org Mode 9.2.6

Posted on 2019-09-04 by jcs

Bastien tweets that he’s just released Org-mode 9.2.6: I released #emacs #orgmode 9.2.6, a bugfix release. Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) September 4, 2019 It’s a bug release so there’s no big changes, just a bit of bolt tightening.

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Emacs 26.3 Released

Posted on 2019-08-29 by jcs

Nicolas Petton has announced that Emacs 26.3 has been released and is available for download. I always compile mine by hand so I have no idea if the prebuilt binaries have appeared yet but compilation—even on the Mac—is simple and … Continue reading →

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Emacs For a Single Line of Text

Posted on 2019-08-27 by jcs

What if you could use Emacs to edit the command line? Wouldn’t that be great? Well, of course, you can. Not only can but almost certainly do. I’m not talking about invoking Emacs from Bash with Ctrl+x Ctrl+e; I’m talking … Continue reading →

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Scroll All Mode

Posted on 2019-08-26 by jcs

From Wilfred Hughes’ Emacs Command of the Day Twitter feed, we have this useful tip: Do you have two buffers visible where you want to scroll both of them at once? scroll-all-mode allows you to move the same amount in … Continue reading →

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Paul Ford on Uses This

Posted on 2019-08-24 by jcs

Ever since I stumbled upon it back in 2011, I’ve been a big fan of Uses This (nee The Setup), which features short interviews with tech or creative people. Each interview is the same in that they ask the identical … Continue reading →

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Emacs 26.3-RC1

Posted on 2019-08-23 by jcs

I didn’t even know there were plans for an Emacs 26.3 but there are and the first release candidate is available. If you don’t want to live on the edge enough to be running the development version of Emacs 27.1, … Continue reading →

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A Real World Use Case of Occur

Posted on 2019-08-22 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou has posted a very nice video on using editable occur to solve a real life editing problem. The basic strategy is to use occur to locate all the occurrences of the problem to be fixed, type e in … Continue reading →

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The Emacs Problem Revisited

Posted on 2019-08-20 by jcs

Saturday, I wrote about Slava Akhmechet’s The Nature of Lisp, which discussed why Lisp is such a powerful language. A day or two afterwards, I serendipitously came across a tweet pointing to Steve Yegge’s old post, The Emacs Problem. That’s … Continue reading →

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Using Directory Local Variables

Posted on 2019-08-18 by jcs

I’ve written before about directory local variables (1, 2) and how they can be useful for setting variables or actions with a directory-wide scope. Over at the Emacs reddit, fearbedragons has a nice tip that leverages them to slightly reduce … Continue reading →

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