Tag Archives: Emacs

Eshell and Emacs Everywhere

Posted on 2018-05-30 by jcs

Seven or eight months ago, I wrote about a couple of posts from Pierre Neidhardt (Ambrevar) concerning Eshell and the utility of doing as much as possible in Emacs (1, 2). Since then, he’s revised them a bit from the … Continue reading →

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Emacs 26.1 Is Out

Posted on 2018-05-28 by jcs

Nico Petton tweets the good news: And… #Emacs 26.1 is out! https://t.co/v3BrlQhmMA — Nicolas Petton (@NicolasPetton) May 28, 2018 I’ve already downloaded, compiled, and installed it and am writing this with the new version. If you’re on macOS, here’s my … Continue reading →

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f-strings in Elisp

Posted on 2018-05-27 by jcs

John Kitchin, as you probably know, is a fan of Python as well as of Emacs. One of the things he really likes in Python 3 is f-strings. They allow you to do things like import datetime today=datetime.datetime.today() name=”J. Random … Continue reading →

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Using Request to Download Financial Data

Posted on 2018-05-25 by jcs

Sebastian Schweer has a nice post on using the

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Reproducible Research for Management

Posted on 2018-05-23 by jcs

The utility of reproducible research and literate programming methods in engineering and science is clear and well known by now but we seldom consider how the techniques might be extended to other disciplines. If, however, you think about what you’re … Continue reading →

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Python Doctests, Literate Programming, and Org Mode

Posted on 2018-05-21 by jcs

If you’re a Python programmer and like to have built-in tests for your functions, you probably know about doctest, a way of embedding one or more tests in the docstring of a Python function. Normally, they don’t do anything but … Continue reading →

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Capturing Code Snippets

Posted on 2018-05-19 by jcs

The other day in my post about Alain Lafon’s talk on playing Emacs like an instrument—you have watched that video, haven’t you?—I mentioned that one of the things I picked up was an Org capture template for capturing code snippets. … Continue reading →

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A Tip for Org Mode N00bs

Posted on 2018-05-18 by jcs

Wilfred Hughes serves up some useful advice for those just starting out with Org mode: It's too easy to get excited about time tracking, tags, and literate programming when starting out with org-mode. It has a huge featureset. I'd encourage … Continue reading →

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Some Dired Tips

Posted on 2018-05-17 by jcs

Tim Visher, who used to produce the popular VimGolf in Emacs Videos, has a couple of useful tips about using dired: #emacs: In dired, `w` copies the file to the kill ring (and clipboard if you have that set up), … Continue reading →

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Emacs Tools for Writers

Posted on 2018-05-15 by jcs

As you all know, I’m fond of posts that show the versatility of Emacs by documenting its use by writers. At first glance, writing—a novel, say—seems to be the direct antithesis of what most of us use Emacs for. But … Continue reading →

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