Tag Archives: Emacs

The Story of Emacs Lisp

Posted on 2018-10-21 by jcs

Stefan Monnier and Michael Sperber have posted a preprint of their paper Evolution of Emacs Lisp. It’s a really interesting account of the history of Elisp and how it has evolved over its lifetime. The thing about Elisp development is … Continue reading →

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An Org Mode Workflow

Posted on 2018-10-20 by jcs

Ayrat Badykov has an interesting post on his Org-mode workflow. In it he shows how he leverages Org mode to be more productive. What I find interesting—other than that I always find workflow articles interesting—is how far he gets using … Continue reading →

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More Pro Tips from Ambrevar

Posted on 2018-10-17 by jcs

I was looking for something to write about and found this (slightly old) post from Ambrevar (Pierre Neidhardt) on some useful Emacs tips. He begins with a couple of tips to speed up Emacs loading. I last restarted Emacs when … Continue reading →

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Ignoring Files Locally in Magit

Posted on 2018-10-15 by jcs

I learned two things I didn’t know about Magit from a post by Marcin Borkowski (mbork). The first is that you can exclude files locally. That is, you can ignore files just as if they were in .gitignore but that … Continue reading →

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Configuring Org Mode to Look Like a Word Processor

Posted on 2018-10-14 by jcs

Last month, I wrote about clean screen writing where all the extraneous information is removed from the screen and the writer is presented with a “blank page.” In the same vein, Abhinav Tushar has an interesting post on making Org … Continue reading →

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Virtualized Emacs

Posted on 2018-10-12 by jcs

I’ve been happily Windows free for more than 20 years but it’s a sad fact that some of our brethren are forced, for reasons beyond their control, to work in the Windows environment. That’s hard on any Unix-head but especially … Continue reading →

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Formatting Tables

Posted on 2018-10-11 by jcs

If you’re like me, you automatically think of the Org mode table editor (or Orgtbl minor mode) when you think of tables in Emacs. It’s hard to beat that functionality and Orgtbl mode makes it available everywhere in Emacs, even … Continue reading →

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Emacs for iA Writer Users

Posted on 2018-10-10 by jcs

I’ve long since moved all my writing—at least all my new writing—to Org mode. It does everything I need and let’s me stay in Emacs. Different folks favor different strokes, of course, so it’s always interesting to see what they … Continue reading →

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An Old School Editor

Posted on 2018-10-08 by jcs

I saw this tweet: I am experimenting with using #Emacs as my main programming environment. The last time I used emacs extensively was in college. Yes it is a bit old school but if you have to edit many files … Continue reading →

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Final Update on Mojave/Emacs Problem

Posted on 2018-10-06 by jcs

Thursday night I compiled a new Emacs from the Emacs-26 branch1. Today, Friday, I updated my OS to Mojave. I’m happy to say that everything seems to be working fine. I will hold off publishing this until Saturday just to … Continue reading →

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