Tag Archives: Emacs

Remote Code Blocks

Posted on 2016-02-11 by jcs

As Irreal readers know, John Kitchin, a Chemical Engineering Professor at Carnegie Mellon, produces virtually all of his group’s journal articles in Org mode. Those articles typically contain a lot of figures and graphs. In his latest post, Kitchin shows … Continue reading →

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Looking for Emacs?

Posted on 2016-02-10 by jcs

Here you go: Get Emacs – https://t.co/Ra90tJObCN – Aaron Schumacher's cross-platform, how-to-get-emacs website https://t.co/5aDktFVRAq #emacs — /r/Emacs (@EmacsReddit) February 2, 2016

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Bad Idea of the Year

Posted on 2016-02-09 by jcs

We’re always seeing a lot of—sorry I can’t think of a more apropos term—stupid ideas for Emacs: let’s get rid of Elisp and make Javascript the extension language; let’s make it more like Notepad+; and so on. Here’s my nomination … Continue reading →

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Ogbe on Why He Uses Emacs

Posted on 2016-02-08 by jcs

Last week I wrote about how Dennis Ogbe uses Org Mode to Blog. While I was on his site, I looked at some of his other posts and found one about why he uses Emacs. The post was written fairly … Continue reading →

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A Magit Tip

Posted on 2016-02-06 by jcs

A nice tip from Wilfred Hughes for Magit users: Emacs tip of the day: you can use ! to explicitly run git commands inside magit. Handy for deleting large directories: ! rm -r somedir — Wilfred Hughes (@_wilfredh) January 20, … Continue reading →

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Magit: Staging All Files Including Those Untracked

Posted on 2016-02-05 by jcs

A nice tip from Xah Lee that I didn’t know about #emacs #magit tip. press C-u S to stage also untracked files. — ErgoEmacs (@ErgoEmacs) February 4, 2016

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Entering Accented Characters in Emacs

Posted on 2016-02-04 by jcs

John D. Cook points out that it’s pretty easy to enter accented characters, ç, ü, é, etc., in Emacs by typing【Ctrl+x 8】followed by a punctuation mark and letter. For example, to get ç you type 【Ctrl+x 8 , c】. Cook’s … Continue reading →

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Blogging with Org Mode (Only)

Posted on 2016-02-03 by jcs

Dennis Ogbe has a blog that he writes in Emacs with Org mode. There’s nothing unusual about that, of course; lots of people do. All Irreal posts begin life as an Org file that is exported to HTML and pushed … Continue reading →

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Emacs pcase

Posted on 2016-02-02 by jcs

Pattern matching is a powerful paradigm in programming. Recent versions of Emacs Lisp implement this paradigm with the pcase macro. Unfortunately, pcase can be a bit difficult to understand. Fortunately, our Emacs maintainer, John Wiegley, has published an excellent tutorial … Continue reading →

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Inserting an Org Date Quickly

Posted on 2016-02-01 by jcs

Here’s a useful tip: 'C-c . fri RET' inserts a timestamp of next Friday in #Org #Emacs. — mega so no fun (@marcowahlsoft) January 19, 2016 It’s obvious, of course, but for me, at least, it’s a subtly different way … Continue reading →

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