Tag Archives: Emacs

Search for Symbol at Point

Posted on 2016-01-20 by jcs

Artur Malabarba has another excellent bit of Elisp for us to improve our workflow. This time it’s a quick and easy way to search for the symbol at point. He binds his code to 【Ctrl+u Ctrl+s】 but remarks that that … Continue reading →

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New save-excursion Semantics

Posted on 2016-01-19 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a useful heads up for Elisp programmers. Starting with Emacs 25.1, save-excursion will no longer save the mark state. If you want to save the mark, you should use save-mark-and-excursion instead. While reading mbork’s post, I … Continue reading →

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Gnus Guide Update

Posted on 2016-01-17 by jcs

After Sacha’s chat with John Wiegley that explored how Wiegley uses Gnus to manage his Emacs maintainer workflow, there’s been a bit of renewed interest from Emacsers in using it for their email client. Unfortunately, Gnus is a large and … Continue reading →

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Running Emacs as a Daemon

Posted on 2016-01-16 by jcs

M. J. Wall has an interesting post entitled How I Use Emacs. Wall’s workflow is a bit unusual—by which I mean different from mine—in that he spends a lot of time in the terminal even though he’s running GUI desktops … Continue reading →

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Org Schedules and Deadlines

Posted on 2016-01-15 by jcs

Ben Maughan has another great post in his Org mode series. This time, he augments his simple TODO list with schedules and deadlines. Org mode is famously flexible and that can make it hard to settle on a strategy for … Continue reading →

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Switch to Editing a File with SUDO

Posted on 2016-01-14 by jcs

Here’s a very useful tip super useful when you open a file that needs sudo perms to edit/save: https://t.co/7Kis1RXa1o i have that bound to C-x C-v #emacs — Sriram Thaiyar (@s_thai) January 6, 2016 especially if you administer your own … Continue reading →

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Using Yasnippet with Mu4e

Posted on 2016-01-12 by jcs

Ben Maughan over at Pragmatic Emacs has a followup to his great post on mu4e and Org-mode. Since he recently moved from Thunderbird to mu4e, there are still a few gaps in his email workflow. One of those is the … Continue reading →

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Research Paper Workflow

Posted on 2016-01-11 by jcs

In a comment on my post Why I Use Emacs, which was mostly a hat tip to Don Knuth’s observation about enjoying your tools, Nick Higham points us to his post on the same quote. Higham is a mathematician whose … Continue reading →

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Org 8.3.3

Posted on 2016-01-09 by jcs

Bastien Guerry announces that he has released Org mode 8.3.3. I've released #emacs #orgmode 8.3.3 (bugfix release). Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) January 8, 2016 It’s a bug release so you should definitely upgrade. If you’re like me, you’ll get … Continue reading →

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Doing Away with Autosave Files

Posted on 2016-01-08 by jcs

I don’t like the loss of control but if you’d rather not worry about recover-file, Anna Pawlicka has you covered: Ha! I can set auto-save-visited-file-name to a non-nil value & have #emacs auto-save in the visited file. Bye you annoying … Continue reading →

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