Tag Archives: Emacs

Using the dash Library to Work with Org Tables

Posted on 2017-10-27 by jcs

The other day, I wrote about building and exporting tables from Org code blocks. I used Elisp but, of course, you can use any of the languages supported by Org Babel. In one of the examples, I showed how to … Continue reading →

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AWK Examples

Posted on 2017-10-26 by jcs

Before Perl and other such scripting languages, there was AWK. AWK is a great language for doing text manipulation chores. It has regular expressions, associative arrays, automatic splitting of input lines into fields, and other features to make working with … Continue reading →

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Tables and Org Mode Code Blocks

Posted on 2017-10-25 by jcs

I have lots of Org files that collect data and have an embedded code block to generate a summary table. Here are a couple of examples that others may find useful. The first thing to know is that tables are … Continue reading →

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EXWM

Posted on 2017-10-24 by jcs

I mentioned the Emacs X Window Manager (WXWM) in a previous post but didn’t say very much about it. Now, Phil Hagelberg has a post in which he explains his use case for EXWM. Like me and many other Emacs … Continue reading →

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Which-key and Calc

Posted on 2017-10-19 by jcs

I ran across this excellent video on Emacs calc and was preparing to write about it. During my research, I discovered that I’d already written about it. That was a couple of years ago so you can consider this a … Continue reading →

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Emacs Line Modes

Posted on 2017-10-18 by jcs

LigerLearn has another nice video up. This time it’s about line wrapping, line truncation, and visual line mode. If you’ve ever been confused about visual line mode and what it’s for, this video will help clear things up for you. … Continue reading →

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Remote Sudo

Posted on 2017-10-17 by jcs

If your workflow involves administering remote systems or something similar, you probably have the following burned into your muscle memory. If, on the other hand, you’re like me and don’t have occasion to need root access on a remote machine … Continue reading →

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Start an Engineering Notebook

Posted on 2017-10-15 by jcs

Camilla over at Winterflower argues that software engineers should keep an engineering notebook. That’s advice that everybody knows they should follow but that too many of us don’t. We’re busy and we think, “I’ll remember what I just did, I … Continue reading →

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Elisp for Configuration

Posted on 2017-10-13 by jcs

Chris Done has a nice introduction to Elisp for configuration. This introduction is aimed at programmers who are relatively new to Emacs and want to start doing some simple customization. He doesn’t intend to provide an thorough guide to the … Continue reading →

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Emacs Pretest 1 Is Available

Posted on 2017-10-12 by jcs

Nicolas Petton has announced the release of Emacs 26.0.90, the first pretest for Emacs 26. I’ve already been reading very favorable reviews, some saying it’s the best release available. If you don’t mind living on the edge, you can help … Continue reading →

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