Tag Archives: Emacs

Prompting on Exit from Emacs

Posted on 2017-03-15 by jcs

Coffeecupp_ over at the Emacs reddit asks if there’s a way on macOS to prevent Emacs from quitting when the last window is closed. That’s not a problem I have but I learned a couple of useful things from the … Continue reading →

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Shell and Comint History

Posted on 2017-03-14 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago I saw this nice post on advanced Bash shortcuts over at ${me:-whatever}, If you haven’t seen it, be sure to take a look. Even though I’ve been using Bash for more years than I care … Continue reading →

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An Automated Publishing Pipeline

Posted on 2017-03-13 by jcs

Dale Karp wanted to publish his activity log and notes so that others could see them and he could view them remotely. To do this, he set up an automated publishing pipeline using Emacs and Org mode. The idea is … Continue reading →

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Mu/Mu4e 0.9.18

Posted on 2017-03-12 by jcs

I just downloaded the latest version mu/mu4e and rebuilt it on my system. That’s a pain because Apple insists on shipping a very old version of Emacs—apparently to avoid GPL 3—and mu4e won’t build because it thinks Emacs is too … Continue reading →

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Org and Emacs Resources

Posted on 2017-03-10 by jcs

Ben Elijah over at Ink and Ben has posted a nice set of Org and Emacs resources. Folks are always asking for basic tutorials and other information on how to take advantage of Emacs and Org mode. Elijah’s list is … Continue reading →

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Installing Hugo and Goorgeous

Posted on 2017-03-08 by jcs

The other day, I wrote about blogging with Hugo and Org. Part of that post involved how Diego Mundo worked around the fact that Hugo expects its input in markdown so that he could write his posts in Org markup. … Continue reading →

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Netops

Posted on 2017-03-07 by jcs

One of my favorite applications of Org mode and Babel is demonstrated by Howard Abrams’ post and video on what he calls Literate DevOps. The basic idea is that he documents his work in an Org file complete with the … Continue reading →

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Undo/Redo with Scrolling

Posted on 2017-03-06 by jcs

The rollover joke for this XKCD cartoon says If used with software that could keep up, a scroll wheel mapped to send a stream of ’undo’ and ’redo’ events could be kind of cool. So of course an Emacs geek, … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 32: Using Emacs for C++

Posted on 2017-03-05 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another great video up. It’s number 32 in his Using Emacs series and discusses using Emacs for C++ coding. I’m always seeing Twitter queries on how to use Emacs as a C++ development platform and I’ve written … Continue reading →

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Blogging with Org Mode and Hugo

Posted on 2017-03-04 by jcs

Diego A. Mundo over at whyarethingsthewaytheyare.com has a nice post on how to blog with Hugo and Org mode. Hugo uses markdown as its input language but Mundo likes to work with Org so he wrote a bit of Elisp … Continue reading →

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