Tag Archives: Emacs

More Font-locking Fun from Fuco1

Posted on 2017-06-20 by jcs

The other day, I wrote about Fuco1’s efforts to add some context awareness to Emacs font-locking. Now he’s back with a new font-locking problem. This time, he wants to highlight interpolated variables in quoted strings in shell code. Those of … Continue reading →

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Xah’s Tutorial on Text Properties

Posted on 2017-06-19 by jcs

Xah Lee has a new page out in his Emacs Lisp Tutorial that serves as a 10 minute introduction to text properties. Text properties are one of those things that you probably won’t need to fiddle with directly unless you … Continue reading →

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Adding Keymaps to Org Source Blocks

Posted on 2017-06-17 by jcs

If you use Org mode and Babel, you know that by calling org-edit-special (bound to Ctrl+c ’ by default) you’re put in a separate buffer that has the mode of the source block you were working in. That’s really convenient … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 34: ibuffer and emmet

Posted on 2017-06-16 by jcs

Mike Zamansky is back with the 34th video in his excellent Using Emacs series. This time he considers ibuffer and emmet. Most of you probably already know about ibuffer. I’ve used it since I started with Emacs and really prefer … Continue reading →

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Using EWW as Your Default Browser (Sometimes)

Posted on 2017-06-15 by jcs

As much as I like to stay in Emacs, most of my browsing is done in Safari. It provides a much better and richer experience than is (currently) possible in Emacs. Still, there are a lot of browsing tasks that … Continue reading →

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How to Read Papers Efficiently

Posted on 2017-06-14 by jcs

If you’re a researcher, or a grad student, or even just a diligent developer, you probably spend a great deal of time reading technical papers. Some of those will be of little or no use, some will be beyond your … Continue reading →

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More on Mu4e

Posted on 2017-06-12 by jcs

I know I’ve written a lot about Emacs and email lately but I can’t help myself—Stop me before I post again!—because there’s so much interesting material. Recently, I saw a pointer to a post from Martin Albrecht on his setup … Continue reading →

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Replacing Scrivener with Emacs

Posted on 2017-06-09 by jcs

If you’re a writer who’s been using Scrivener, here’s a video on replacing Scrivener with Emacs and Org mode. The author is really a Vim guy so he’s using Evil but that’s really just a detail. His configuration as well … Continue reading →

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Karl Voit’s Emacs Configuration

Posted on 2017-06-08 by jcs

Karl Voit is an expert on organizing and storing information. One of his basic building blocks is Emacs and Org mode. It’s interesting, therefore, to see the history of how he’s organized his Emacs configuration. If you follow the link … Continue reading →

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Importing Data from a RESTful Website into an Org Table

Posted on 2017-06-06 by jcs

Charl Botha has a really interesting post on importing data from a RESTful Webservice into an Org table. He gives the example of downloading cryptocurrency trading values and updating a table showing the total value of a user’s holdings but … Continue reading →

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