Tag Archives: Emacs

Ensime Hacks

Posted on 2016-03-21 by jcs

Over at Ensime they have a page dedicated to Emacs Hacks. Although it’s written from the point of view of a Scala developer, the hacks are useful for any Emacs user. There three sections, one each for General hacks Scala … Continue reading →

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Literate Programming With Org Babel

Posted on 2016-03-19 by jcs

Howard Abrams recently gave a talk at the PDX Emacs Hangout in Portland. So far, there is no video of the talk but Abrams did write up his notes1. The talk was intended to be a workshop so you should … Continue reading →

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Magit Video on Rebasing

Posted on 2016-03-18 by jcs

Charl Botha has posted an excellent video on advanced rebasing with Magit. It serves as a great followup to Howard Abrams’ Magit tutorial video. Abrams covered rebasing too but Botha shows how to perform more complicated tasks. First he shows … Continue reading →

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Org Mode and Software Engineering

Posted on 2016-03-17 by jcs

Rohan Kshirsagar has a nice post on integrating Emacs Org Mode into the software engineering process. That’s a big subject area, of course, but Kshirsagar focuses on using Org to take notes as things occur to you and perhaps turn … Continue reading →

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A One-liner Fuzzy Isearch

Posted on 2016-03-14 by jcs

If you’re looking for a quick and easy fuzzy isearch, here’s a way to get it with a single line of Elisp. Also check the comments for some riffs on the same idea.

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Using Emacs for Prose

Posted on 2016-03-11 by jcs

Most Irreal readers are, I think, involved with development or at least some sort of tech. Nevertheless, when I, from time-to-time, write about using Emacs for writing I invariably get some feedback from readers thanking me for covering that aspect … Continue reading →

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Find a Related File

Posted on 2016-03-09 by jcs

Here’s a nice tip if you’re writing in a language that has header files. Emacs command of the day: ff-find-other-file. Jump from foo.c to foo.h (or create the file) and vice versa. — Wilfred Hughes (@_wilfredh) March 7, 2016

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Bulk Rescheduling of Org Agenda Items

Posted on 2016-03-07 by jcs

Ben Maughan over at Pragmatic Emacs has a really useful tip for rescheduling Org agenda items in bulk. Maughan’s use case is that when at the end of the day he has unfinished TODO items in his Org Agenda he … Continue reading →

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Rotating an Org Table on Export to PDF

Posted on 2016-03-06 by jcs

This is a note to myself but you may find it useful too. Kara Woo asks how she can arrange to have an Org table rotated on the page when she exports it to PDF: Anyone know if I can … Continue reading →

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How to be Efficient in Emacs

Posted on 2016-03-04 by jcs

Bin Chen has an interesting post on making Emacs use as efficient as possible. The idea is to remap the commands you use the most to easy key sequences. To do that, you need to know what commands you’re using, … Continue reading →

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