Tag Archives: Emacs

Defining a Keymap Prefix

Posted on 2016-06-08 by jcs

I’ve written about this before but it’s a useful technique and worth revisiting now and then. One of the problems all Emacs users face eventually is a lack of practical key sequences for commands. One way of solving this problem … Continue reading →

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Org Clocking and Idle Time

Posted on 2016-06-07 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) posts some useful information on Org mode clocking that I didn’t know. If you’re tracking your time on a task with Org mode clocking, it’s easy to forget to stop the clock when you finish or get … Continue reading →

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Pandoc Upgraded

Posted on 2016-06-06 by jcs

If you do a lot of your writing with Org mode the way I do, you may sometimes need pandoc to help with exporting your work. If you are one of those people, Karl Voit has some good news for … Continue reading →

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Running Unit Test with Org Mode

Posted on 2016-06-03 by jcs

Frédérick Giasson has a nice post in which he describes how he uses Org mode to run unit tests on his code. Actually, his goal is to combine the writing, documentation, and testing of his code in a single document … Continue reading →

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Date Calculations in Org

Posted on 2016-06-02 by jcs

One of the things that always causes confusion and that is hard to find in the documentation is making date calculations in Org. I was reminded of that when I saw a reddit question on making date calculations in an … Continue reading →

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Filling and Unfilling Paragraphs with Emacs

Posted on 2016-06-01 by jcs

Like me, Artur Malabarba is a heavy user of fill paragraph. I don’t use visual-line-mode when I’m writing so every time I make an edit I refill the paragraph. Malabarba apparently does the same but being Malabarba has found a … Continue reading →

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Malabarba: Mastering Emacs Review

Posted on 2016-05-30 by jcs

A year ago, Mickey Petersen published Mastering Emacs, an excellent book for beginning and intermediate Emacs users. Oddly, although I’ve seen many tweets praising it, I haven’t seen any reviews. Happily, the prolific Artur Malabarba has remedied that. If you … Continue reading →

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You Must Use Emacs or Vi

Posted on 2016-05-29 by jcs

Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post recounting my observation that the best developers tended to use either Emacs or Vim (and back then, possibly TextMate on OS X). I speculated that that might be because excellent developers choose … Continue reading →

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Writing A Custom Emacs Package

Posted on 2016-05-28 by jcs

Al Scott is an Emacs user and JavaScript developer who’s interested in using the TDD method. He likes to use Mocha to run JavaScript scripts for testing. Unfortunately, there’s no easy way to do that from Emacs so Scott decided … Continue reading →

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Emacs as a (Python) IDE

Posted on 2016-05-26 by jcs

A couple of years ago, Drew Werner gave a nice talk to the New York Emacs Meetup group on An Intelligent Python IDE with Emacs, Projectile, and Jedi. I came across a reference to it today and watched the video … Continue reading →

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