Tag Archives: Emacs

International Beat Up on Vim Day?

Posted on 2019-03-01 by jcs

It’s Friday so let’s have a bit of whimsy. This morning, I ran across two separate items poking gentle fun at Vim. First up is the fact that someone bought the vim.dev domain and immediately pointed it at the Emacs … Continue reading →

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Running Emacs as Your OS

Posted on 2019-02-28 by jcs

I somehow missed the videos by Emacs Guy in which he records his experiment in running Emacs as his OS. Sort of. The idea is to install a minimal Linux system along with an X-server and try to do everything … Continue reading →

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A Nice Linux Desktop Setup

Posted on 2019-02-27 by jcs

Dennis Felsing over at HookRace Blog has an interesting post on his Linux desktop setup. He’s a Vim user so he doesn’t have the advantages that Emacs brings for integrating common tasks into a consistent framework. Still, he has built … Continue reading →

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Running a Bakery with Org-mode and PostgreSQL

Posted on 2019-02-26 by jcs

Piers Cawley used to be a programmer. Now he’s a baker. Following a longtime dream, Cawley opened a bakery and is now happily turning out bread instead of code. Running a small bakery doesn’t seem to offer a lot of … Continue reading →

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Emacs 26.1.92 Is Out

Posted on 2019-02-24 by jcs

Nicolas Petton has announced that the third pretest for Emacs 26.2, Emacs 26.1.92, is out. I compiled and installed it yesterday and have been using it as my default Emacs since then. I haven’t encountered any problems so if you … Continue reading →

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Stephen Wolfram’s Personal Infrastructure

Posted on 2019-02-22 by jcs

Over at his blog, Stephen Wolfram writes about his personal infrastructure and workflow. Wolfram, of course, is the CEO of Wolfram Research, the company behind Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha. He describes himself as a very hands-on CEO but what’s surprising … Continue reading →

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Inserting the Current File Name

Posted on 2019-02-20 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a very useful tip and piece of Elisp that many of you will find useful. The problem is how to how to insert the current file name at point, even when the point may be in … Continue reading →

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Elisp Cheat Sheet

Posted on 2019-02-19 by jcs

Musa Al-hassy has a very nice Elisp reference sheet. It doesn’t cover the Elisp run-time system so such as general Lisp constructs as used by Emacs. His table of contents gives a good idea of what’s covered: Functions Variables Block … Continue reading →

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Zamansky: GitHub Classroom 2

Posted on 2019-02-18 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another video out on how he uses GitHub Classroom for teaching. Like the first, it’s not really about Emacs—although he does use Emacs in the process, of course—but it’s an interesting study on a tools-based approach to … Continue reading →

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Copying the Whole Buffer

Posted on 2019-02-17 by jcs

Tim Bray tweeted a nice bit of elisp to copy the current buffer to the kill ring: For mac/emacs people: <<<< (defun copy-whole-buffer () “Command A stupid” (interactive) (save-excursion (mark-whole-buffer) (copy-region-as-kill 1 (buffer-size)))) (global-set-key [(meta a)] ‘copy-whole-buffer) <<<< [Don’t know … Continue reading →

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