Tag Archives: Emacs

Calling Applescript from Emacs

Posted on 2016-01-07 by jcs

In this thread concerning adding certain OS X features to Emacs, I learned something I didn’t know. Daniel Colascione points out that Emacs supports invokng Applescript directly. To invoke Applescript with the string SCRIPT you make the call (do-applescript SCRIPT) … Continue reading →

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Learn From Your Tools

Posted on 2016-01-06 by jcs

N0v0id (Karl Voit) mentioned my post Learning the Right Tools and made an excellent point If you want to be a good #engineer, learn (from) the best #tools: https://t.co/lDkkOk7En6 #Emacs #vim #PIM — n0v0id (@n0v0id) January 2, 2016 One of the … Continue reading →

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Why I Use Emacs

Posted on 2016-01-04 by jcs

'The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.' — Donald E. Knuth — Unix tool tip (@UnixToolTip) January 1, 2016 One of the salient features of Emacs is how much I enjoy using it. I suspect … Continue reading →

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Functional Programming

Posted on 2016-01-01 by jcs

A couple of years ago, I wrote about Kris Jenkins’ wonderful video that demonstrated interactive programming while building a Spotify client in Emacs Lisp. It’s one of my favorite videos and I’m still seeing it mentioned as new people discover … Continue reading →

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Integrating iCal and Org Mode

Posted on 2015-12-31 by jcs

Rob Rohan has a very nice video up on integrating Org mode and OS X1 iCal. In his case, he wants to create a physical training schedule that will be reflected in his desktop calendar as well as on his … Continue reading →

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Learning the Right Tools

Posted on 2015-12-28 by jcs

I was going to let this go It's almost 2016. Let's stop telling newbies to learn #Emacs or Vim, or any other "1337" command line shit. https://t.co/RiOg03tLhG #elitism — Niko Rosvall (@NikoRosvall) December 13, 2015 but it kept bothering me … Continue reading →

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Adjusting Text Size in Emacs

Posted on 2015-12-25 by jcs

For some reason I have a hard time remembering this. If you have a hard time too, consider this my Christmas gift to you. #Emacs of the day: Demoing code to at your desk? C-x C-+ to increase font size, … Continue reading →

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Productivity Packages for Emacs

Posted on 2015-12-24 by jcs

Adrien Brochard over at Xmodulo has a list of 10 productivity packages for Emacs. Some of them are actually built-ins but they’re all something that every Emacs user should consider installing or using. I’m a user of almost all of … Continue reading →

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Org-Ref Update

Posted on 2015-12-23 by jcs

I’ve written about John Kitchin’s org-ref package a couple of times before [1, 2] but now it’s available on Melpa. If you write papers or reports that have references (either internal or external), you need this package. It makes handling … Continue reading →

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Macro Workshop

Posted on 2015-12-21 by jcs

Howard Abrams has an excellent tutorial on Emacs keyboard macros. It’s structured much like the builtin Emacs tutorial in that you download the tutorial into an Emacs buffer and then do the exercises in situ. Unlike the Emacs tutorial, it’s … Continue reading →

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