Tag Archives: Emacs

Ivy Selection Algorithms

Posted on 2017-11-09 by jcs

Today I learned that a capability I’ve often wished for already exists. As I’ve written many times, I use the Ivy/Counsel/Swiper package for my searching and selection needs. Although it took me a day or two to get used to … Continue reading →

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Xah Lee on Long Term Emacs Productivity

Posted on 2017-11-08 by jcs

Xah Lee has a nice post on obtaining Long Term Emacs Productivity. It’s 7 tips to help you be more productive with Emacs. Doubtless anyone who is not a complete n00b will disagree with some of his suggestions. I disagree … Continue reading →

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Pandoc 2

Posted on 2017-11-07 by jcs

There’s a new Pandoc available that has a ton of new features and improvements. You can see the (substantial) list of new features in the Pandoc 2.0 release notes. There’s also a Pandoc 2.0.1 release with a few bug fixes … Continue reading →

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Autocomplete Boilerplate

Posted on 2017-11-06 by jcs

If you haven’t already, be sure to take a look at Bin Chen’s EACL package. The idea is that if you have some boilerplate in a project, you can type the first few characters and EACL will grep the project … Continue reading →

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Emacs in the Humanities

Posted on 2017-11-03 by jcs

I stumbled across a link to this post in the Emacs reddit and ignored it but curiosity go the better of me so I went back to it. Like most Irreal readers (I assume) the label nerd or geek can … Continue reading →

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Association List Library

Posted on 2017-11-02 by jcs

Back in August, I wrote about a series of libraries for handling hash tables and key/value pairs, and a general library for handling hash tables, alists, and arrays. A little later I came across another library for handling alists by … Continue reading →

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Emphasize LaTeX Code in an Org Buffer

Posted on 2017-11-01 by jcs

A couple of months ago, Ben Maughan over at Pragmatic Emacs posted a tip that I pretty much ignored at the time but have since come to embrace. The tip is simple: it’s how to make \(\LaTeX\) markup stand out … Continue reading →

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PDF-Tools: Setup and Annotation

Posted on 2017-10-31 by jcs

I installed PDF-tools a few months ago and really like it. Their site has warnings about using it with macOS but the installation on a Mac is easy and it works perfectly. Recently, I have seen two posts that address … Continue reading →

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Good News for Mu4e Users

Posted on 2017-10-30 by jcs

DJCB (Dirk-Jan C. Binnema) has announced the release of mu/mu4e version 1.0-alpha0. The NEWS file hasn’t been updated yet so it’s hard to tell what’s changed except by looking at the commit log. I really, really love mu4e for handling … Continue reading →

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Howard Abrams on Eshell

Posted on 2017-10-29 by jcs

Howard Abrams has another excellent video up. This one, given to The London Emacs User’s Group, is on eshell. Like me, Abrams has moved as much shell work as possible into eshell. Unlike me, he’s learned how to take maximum … Continue reading →

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