Tag Archives: Emacs

Yasnippets Tutorial

Posted on 2015-08-11 by jcs

Lefteris Karapetsas has an interesting tutorial on using yasnippets for entering boilerplate code. A lot of us use small snippets for minor tasks such as filling in a for or while loop. Karapetsas shows how to use it for large … Continue reading →

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Installing Org 8.3

Posted on 2015-08-09 by jcs

Org 8.3 is ready on Elpa so those of you installing it with the package manager can upgrade at your convenience. When I upgraded and reloaded Org I got the error message Invalid function: org-babel-header-args-safe-fn After some experimentation, I gave … Continue reading →

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Diff a Buffer with its On-Disk File

Posted on 2015-08-07 by jcs

Ben Maughan over at Pragmatic Emacs has a handy tip that I didn’t know about. Sometimes it’s convenient to see the differences between the current buffer and the underlying on-disk file. Emacs, of course, has you covered. Just call ediff-current-file … Continue reading →

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Org Mode 8.3!

Posted on 2015-08-05 by jcs

#emacs #Orgmode 8.3 is now out. Enjoy! http://t.co/tqlT0u7B5T — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) August 5, 2015 As of my writing this, it hasn’t hit Elpa yet.

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Turning Off Annoying Magit Prompts

Posted on 2015-08-04 by jcs

As most of you know, I’m a big fan of Magit and have been using it for some time. One thing I didn’t like was that it asked for verification before staging all changed files (【S】 in magit-status) but being … Continue reading →

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A Diff on Quitting Emacs

Posted on 2015-08-03 by jcs

I used to know this and probably even blogged on it before but I’d forgotten about it and maybe you have too so it’s worthwhile repeating. #emacs https://t.co/OBjPKHDgIo — Marco Wahl (@marcowahlsoft) July 12, 2015

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Come Over to the Dark Side

Posted on 2015-08-01 by jcs

and achieve great power. Come to the Dark Side… …we have #Vim and #Emacs. :D #Text #Editors — Darth Coder (@code4fud) July 10, 2015

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Drag and Drop Into an Org Buffer

Posted on 2015-07-31 by jcs

John Kitchin has a very nice post in which he presents at bit of Elisp that enables us to drag and drop images into an Org buffer. The code is short and easy to understand. I just cut it out … Continue reading →

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Embedding Youtube Videos in Org Files

Posted on 2015-07-30 by jcs

Artur Malabarba has a nice post on embedding Youtube videos in Org files. I do that occasionally for blog posts by using the HTML embedding code that Youtube supplies with each video. It turns out, though, that you can do … Continue reading →

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New Hydra Feature

Posted on 2015-07-29 by jcs

Abo-abo’s hydra keeps getting better and better.

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