Tag Archives: Emacs

Adding Custom CSS to a WordPress Site

Posted on 2015-06-17 by jcs

When I first started blogging with WordPress, I needed some custom CSS. Being a WordPress n00b, I simply added it to the theme’s CSS file that controls what the site looks like. Of course, that bad decision came back to … Continue reading →

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Sacha on Supplying an Argument to a Capture Template Function

Posted on 2015-06-16 by jcs

Org mode capture templates are more flexible than you might think. You can specify that the entry be stored in a file in a variety of ways. You can, for instance, ask that it be put in a date tree … Continue reading →

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Writing Mastering Emacs

Posted on 2015-06-15 by jcs

Mickey Petersen has a really interesting post on the technical details of how he wrote Mastering Emacs. It’s not surprising that he used Emacs, of course, but less obviously he chose reStructedText as his source format. That choice was driven … Continue reading →

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Evaluate An Expression and Insert the Result

Posted on 2015-06-14 by jcs

A handy tip from Wilfred Hughes Emacs tip of the day: M-: evaluates elisp snippets, but C-u M-: inserts the result into the current buffer. Really handy for quick scripts. — Wilfred Hughes (@_wilfredh) May 26, 2015 It’s easy to … Continue reading →

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The Editor Wars

Posted on 2015-06-11 by jcs

Colin Weir nicely captures the absurdity of the editor wars: @marcoarment We also argue which 1970s text editor is best to use in a 1990s emulator of a 1980s terminal — Colin Weir (@radiocolin) May 18, 2015

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Filtering by Tag in EShell

Posted on 2015-06-11 by jcs

Howard Abrams has a nifty bit of Elisp that allows you to filter on file tags in eshell. As an example of his idea, suppose I want to list all my blog posts with a tag of “Emacs”. I can … Continue reading →

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Message Mode

Posted on 2015-06-10 by jcs

mbork has a nice post on message-mode. The mode is meant to support email message editing. As mbork explains, there are several functions that make manipulating a message buffer easier. He’s using it with mu4e but notes that it’s handy … Continue reading →

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Moving from Vim to Emacs with Evil

Posted on 2015-06-09 by jcs

Aaron Bieber, an engineer from Wayfair, gave a great talk to the Boston Vim Meetup on his journey from Vim to Emacs. Bieber was a serious Vim user who had about 15 years experience with it. During that time he’d … Continue reading →

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Writing a Master Thesis in Org Mode

Posted on 2015-06-05 by jcs

One way or another, I end up using Org mode for almost all my writing. Blog posts are easy to write in Org and then export with org2blog, and Org brings all the power of LaTeX with an easier interface. … Continue reading →

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A System Wide Org Capture Key

Posted on 2015-06-04 by jcs

Over at Think *NIX, PRJ2 has a nice post on setting up a system wide key to invoke Org capture. The idea is that even if Emacs isn’t running it will be launched and Org capture automatically called. He assigns … Continue reading →

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