Tag Archives: Emacs

Multiple Mu4e Signature Blocks

Posted on 2018-07-31 by jcs

Rob Stewart has a blog post that serves as a handy tip on implementing multiple signatures in Mu4e. For those who don’t know, Mu4e is an email client that runs inside Emacs. I use it and love it. It helps … Continue reading →

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Aggregate Tables

Posted on 2018-07-30 by jcs

Thierry Banel and Michael Brand have a really nifty package, orgaggregate, for those who work with data and want to produce a summary or aggregate table from their primary table. Here’s a simple example from their GitHub repository: #+NAME: original … Continue reading →

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Selection and Navigation in Emacs

Posted on 2018-07-27 by jcs

Gaurab Paul has a nice post on improving your Emacs workflow with selection and navigation. He says the post is aimed mainly at Emacs immigrants from “other, so called ‘modern’ editors” but he discusses some techniques that even more experienced … Continue reading →

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Clone a GitHub Repository from Within Emacs

Posted on 2018-07-25 by jcs

Here’s another great tip from Wilfred Hughes’ Emacs Command of the Day: M-x github-clone This awesome command will clone a github repo from any URL format you can imagine. It can even automatically fork the repo for you, so you're … Continue reading →

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Karl Voit on Key Bindings and File Hierarchy

Posted on 2018-07-24 by jcs

Karl Voit has a couple of nice posts in which he discusses his key binding and file hierarchy strategies. If you’re like me, these things develop in an organic—a nice way of saying haphazard—way. They just evolve over time without … Continue reading →

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Find Commits Affecting a Function

Posted on 2018-07-23 by jcs

Here’s a really useful tip from Wildred Hughes’ Emacs Command of the Day: Want to know all the commits that affected a function?@magit_emacs as of version 2.13 provides M-x magit-log-trace-definition for this! For any language that git log understands, it … Continue reading →

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Three Emacs Modes for Note Taking

Posted on 2018-07-20 by jcs

Irreal readers can’t help but know that I’m a fanatical Org mode addict. I use it for almost everything that doesn’t involve coding and sometimes, via code blocks, even then. I’m an inveterate data gatherer and note taker and all … Continue reading →

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More YASnippet Templates

Posted on 2018-07-18 by jcs

I’ve mentioned before that I’m a YASnippet user and really like the system. Not everyone agrees but you owe it to yourself to give them a try. If you are a user, you might not be aware, as I wasn’t, … Continue reading →

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Building an Initial Emacs Configuration

Posted on 2018-07-17 by jcs

One of the problems—perhaps the major problem—that a new Emacs user faces is building an initial configuration. One would think that a vanilla install would be a good starting point for a new user but we all know that that … Continue reading →

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Emacs As an Editor

Posted on 2018-07-16 by jcs

Over at the Emacs reddit, honeywhite wonders why anyone would use the Emacs default key bindings. He’s an Emacs user but can’t understand why anyone would prefer the standard Emacs key bindings to one of the Vi emulation modes. As … Continue reading →

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