Tag Archives: Emacs

Magit from the Terminal

Posted on 2018-08-30 by jcs

For those of you who like to work in the terminal, UnwashedMeme over at the Emacs subreddit has a handy tip. It’s an alias that brings up an Emacs buffer with the Magit status buffer. This doesn’t enable any new … Continue reading →

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Copy Sexp at Mouse Position to Point

Posted on 2018-08-29 by jcs

Via Wilfred Hughes, I found this old post to the gnu-emacs-sources mailing list giving a quick and dirty implementation of an old Lisp Machine trick: copying a sexp that the mouse is pointing at to the position at point. Vladimir … Continue reading →

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Why Emacs Is Awesome

Posted on 2018-08-28 by jcs

A few months ago I wrote about Luke Smith’s challenge for others to make a video convincing him to use Emacs. Among those who responded was JimKD who produced a very nice video that showcased some of the great features … Continue reading →

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Refreshing the Occur Buffer

Posted on 2018-08-26 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, attrigh asks if there is some way of refreshing the results of an occur when the underlying buffer changes. I’ve never run into a use case where that would be helpful but it’s easy to … Continue reading →

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Actionable Links in Emacs Buffers

Posted on 2018-08-25 by jcs

As most of you know, I do almost all my writing in Org mode so I’m used to being able to follow a URL by typing return on it or with Ctrl+c Ctrl+o. I use this all the time and, … Continue reading →

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Splitting An Org Block

Posted on 2018-08-24 by jcs

Kaushal Modi has a nice post on how to split an Org block. That comes up in the context of, say, writing a literate program and deciding you want to insert some commentary in the middle of the block. A … Continue reading →

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The Emacs Community

Posted on 2018-08-22 by jcs

James Gill has a nice tweet about the community of Emacs users: I’ve never encountered a community like that of #Emacs users. So many with 10, 20, 30+ years using the tool, endless resources and helpful people. And so delightfully … Continue reading →

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The Many Uses of Org Mode

Posted on 2018-08-20 by jcs

It’s almost a cliche that “I came to Emacs for X but stayed for Org mode.” Org really is the killer app for n00bs, although I believe it’s more of a gateway drug. After you’ve been here for a while, … Continue reading →

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Why Emacs is a Great Editor

Posted on 2018-08-18 by jcs

Ayrat Badykov has a short post on Why Emacs is a great text editor. The post is really about why he switched to Emacs and why he’s sticking with it. Although you won’t find anything in the post to convince … Continue reading →

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The Ferret Lisp System

Posted on 2018-08-17 by jcs

Nurullah Akkaya has an interesting project, Ferret, that compiles a Lisp dialect into C++. It’s very portable and can compile code not only for the major platforms but for embedded systems as well. Basically anything that can support C++ can … Continue reading →

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