Tag Archives: Emacs

Quoting with Org Mode

Posted on 2016-05-25 by jcs

Grant Rettke, whom Irreal has mentioned from time to time, has a nice screencast on how he adds quotes to an Org document. Like many of us, Rettke takes notes on material he is watching or reading with Org mode. … Continue reading →

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Not an Editor, Not an Operating System…

Posted on 2016-05-23 by jcs

This is where its power really comes from. Emacs isn't an editor. It's an interpreter that happens to ship with an editor program. It makes a lot more sense with this mindset. — Wilfred Hughes (@_wilfredh) November 20, 2015

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Count Days Between Dates

Posted on 2016-05-19 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez points out that Emacs has the built-in capability to calculate the number of days between two dates. It’s easy to do; the tl;dr is: M-x calendar <mark the region between the two dates (inclusive)> M-= (or M-x calendar-count-days-region) … Continue reading →

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What’s Emacs

Posted on 2016-05-17 by jcs

This is exactly how I think of Emacs "Emacs is a Lisp VM with built in primitives for handling its fundamental data structure – buffers (of mostly, but not always text.)" — unbalancedparen (@unbalancedparen) May 13, 2016 It’s almost a … Continue reading →

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Quitting with SIGUSR2

Posted on 2016-05-15 by jcs

The other day I wrote about using the SIGUSR2 signal to quit Emacs. It’s usually enough to unjam Emacs and get you into a state where you can at least save your work and restart Emacs. Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has … Continue reading →

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Remote Shells with Tramp

Posted on 2016-05-13 by jcs

Howard Abrams has a nifty video on his setup for invoking remote shells. Those of you who have followed his recent videos know that he works with a lot of virtual machines and it is convenient for him to be … Continue reading →

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Org Capture Template for Code Snippets

Posted on 2016-05-11 by jcs

Munen Alain M. Lafon has a nice post on using an Org capture template to record a bit of source code. I like it because it’s completely self-contained. You just define the template and it works. The real value of … Continue reading →

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Learning Vim: Not That Hard

Posted on 2016-05-08 by jcs

As anyone who’s been around Irreal for awhile knows, I’m all in on Emacs. I find new uses for it and things I didn’t know it could do every day. Nonetheless, I was a Vim user for a long time … Continue reading →

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Summary of Search and Replace Commands

Posted on 2016-05-06 by jcs

Om Prakash Singh has a very nice post on the Emacs search and replace commands. We all know the commands for forward and reverse incremental search (【Ctrl+s】 and 【Ctrl+r】), query-replace (【Meta+%】), and query-replace-regexp (【Ctrl+Meta+%】) but each of these commands has … Continue reading →

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Multiple Org Capture Inputs

Posted on 2016-05-04 by jcs

David Zuber over at Storax has a useful post on enabling multiple inputs in an Org capture template. Templates are extraordinarily useful. I have several that I use several times a day. They do have a problem, though: you can … Continue reading →

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