Tag Archives: Emacs

Zamansky 46: Auto-YASnippet

Posted on 2018-03-16 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another video up in his Using Emacs Series. This time he discusses Artur Malabarba’s agressive-indent-mode and abo-abo’s Auto YASnippet. In what could be an example of great minds thinking alike but is more likely simply a quotidian … Continue reading →

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Grepping Git Repositories and Other Collections

Posted on 2018-03-14 by jcs

My current workflow has two ways of grepping collections of files. For grepping Git repositories, I use counsel-git-grep. It uses the fast grep built into Git as a backend. For other collections, I use counsel-ag, a recursive grep that uses … Continue reading →

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Mind Mapping with Org-brain

Posted on 2018-03-13 by jcs

If you like to visualize your projects and tasks with mind-mapping, like to work with an interactive GUI, and don’t mind proprietary software, you may like The Brain. You can see how it works in this video. It appears to … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 45: Autocomplete and Company Mode

Posted on 2018-03-12 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has a new video up in his Using Emacs Series. After commenting on what a great time it is to be an Emacs user, Zamansky considers Autocomplete and Company mode. These, of course, are completion packages for Emacs. … Continue reading →

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Radio Buttons and Devops in Org Mode

Posted on 2018-03-11 by jcs

Regular readers know that I am very enamored of Howard Abrams’ excellent post and video on literate devops. It’s not that my duties include devops; rather it’s that the methods he demonstrates are applicable to a wide range of problems … Continue reading →

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Ten Tools for Academics

Posted on 2018-03-08 by jcs

Over at Academia Obscura they have a list of 10 essential tools for academics and PhD students. It’s a useful list but my immediate reaction upon reading it was that you can do all that with Emacs. Well, you can’t … Continue reading →

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A Return to Emacs

Posted on 2018-03-06 by jcs

John Goerzen has returned to Emacs after a decade of being a Vim user. His reason for doing so is Org mode. If all you want from your editor is to edit, Vim is hard to beat: it’s fast, loads … Continue reading →

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A Sound Investment

Posted on 2018-03-05 by jcs

How much would you pay for Org mode? $10? $25? $100? More? Well fortunately you don’t have to pay anything at all because, of course, Org mode is free software in all senses of the word “free.” Still, free software … Continue reading →

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Reasons to Switch to Emacs

Posted on 2018-03-01 by jcs

The other day I came across this video by Luke Smith challenging the rest of the world to convince him to switch from Vim to Emacs. He was very specific: he wanted videos showing Emacs in action that offer cogent … Continue reading →

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A Reproducible Research Toolkit

Posted on 2018-02-28 by jcs

José A. Alonso’s tweet: Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for research writing in social sciences (A toolkit for writing reproducible research papers and monographs). ~ Vikas Rawal https://t.co/QaG4Ifq3Kh #Emacs #OrgMode #Rstats — José A. Alonso (@Jose_A_Alonso) February 26, 2018 led … Continue reading →

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