Tag Archives: Emacs

35 Coding Habits to Avoid

Christian Maioli Mackeprang has an interesting post on 35 habits that can negatively affect your coding. I’ll let you read them and make your own judgments as to their value for your situation but I’d like to comment on two … Continue reading

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A Clojure Workflow

Manuel Uberti has a nice post that describes his Clojure workflow. What struck me is how generally applicable it is. Sure, if you aren’t doing Clojure you won’t care about Cider but everyone can profit from packages like, Projectile, Smartparens, … Continue reading

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Quick Check on Files With counsel-ag

The more I use swiper and counsel to more impressed I become. On reddit’s Emacs subreddit, the_whalerus asks how he can take a peak at files he found with counsel-ag to decide which one he wants to work on. As … Continue reading

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Dumb-jump in Action

The other day I wrote that I was considering installing dumb-jump and giving it a try. I did that and have been using it since I watched Mike Zamansky’s video on Projectile and Dumb-jump. It really is the sweet spot … Continue reading

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Org 9.0.7

Org mode has a bug fix out. I track Org on Melpa but if you don’t, now is a good time to update. If you do track Org on Melpa, the new version is there and ready for update. #emacs … Continue reading

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The Benefits of Reading Code

I’m a big advocate of reading code. A lot of what I know about programming, Unix, and Emacs, I learned from reading code. Chen Bin has a parallel if slightly different take on reading code. He says that mastering Emacs … Continue reading

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Imenu for Dired

Matus Goljer—Fuco1 of Smartparen fame—blogged a nice bit of Elisp that adds imenu functionality to dired. At first, that doesn’t seem to make sense since an imenu menu would simply have the same information as the dired listing itself. What … Continue reading

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A Company-wide Emacs Configuration

Daniel Gopar over at Emacs.el has another of his Emacs chats up. This time he talks to Charles Lowell from Frontside Software. What’s interesting about Frontside is that they have a company-wide, shared Emacs configuration. All the developers use the … Continue reading

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Jumping Directly to Org Headers

Last week I wrote about finding out about counsel-imenu from Arjen Wiersma’s Emacs configuration. Today, I discovered something new about it. Filipe Silva was looking for a way to jump to an Org mode heading using fuzzy completion. There were … Continue reading

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How to Make Swiper Choose the Second or Subsequent Match on a Line

Chanyoung is a Swiper user and asks a question I’ve sometimes wondered about: when using swiper, how do you choose the second or subsequent match on a line? If you follow the above link, you will see that abo-abo himself … Continue reading

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