Tag Archives: Emacs

Email Templates with Yasnippet

Posted on 2015-06-03 by jcs

Bin Chen is a busy guy and as a freelancer he gets lots of emails offering jobs. Each type of reply is mostly the same as all the others of that type so it makes sense to automate those replies … Continue reading →

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Reproducible Research in the Small

Posted on 2015-06-02 by jcs

As most of you know, I’m a big fan of reproducible research and have written about it many times. I usually think of it as something you do with a large project that is going to produce one or more … Continue reading →

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From Date to Agenda

Posted on 2015-06-01 by jcs

Here’s a useful tip for bringing up the agenda for a given date. If you have the point on an Org date, typing 【Ctrl+c Ctrl+o】 will bring up the agenda for that date. This is really useful if you have … Continue reading →

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Avy

Posted on 2015-05-29 by jcs

I’ve written several times about ace-jump-mode and how it’s now my main navigation tool. I’m also a huge fan of ace-winodw and use it through the excellent hydra from abo-abo that I use to control all my window operations. Abo-abo, … Continue reading →

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Colors and Emacs in the Terminal

Posted on 2015-05-28 by jcs

Here’s a useful tip for those of you who run Emacs in a terminal.

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Kitchin on Embedding Org in HTML

Posted on 2015-05-26 by jcs

John Kitchin has an interesting post on embedding Org documents in HTML. The idea is that you embed the Org in a data URI so that the user can click on the URI and see the Org code. This is … Continue reading →

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Defining the Word at Point

Posted on 2015-05-25 by jcs

I just stumbled upon a new offering from abo-abo. It’s define-word, a very nice package that allows you to get a definition of the word at point. You can also specify the word in the minibuffer if you want. The … Continue reading →

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Mastering Emacs is Out

Posted on 2015-05-23 by jcs

Mickey Peterson’s new book, Mastering Emacs, is out. I'm pleased to announce that my #emacs ebook, Mastering Emacs, is now out! https://t.co/Fg618KEiOA pic.twitter.com/m0KynKpyP5 — Mickey Petersen (@mickeynp) May 23, 2015 I’ve already got mine. I haven’t read it yet, obviously, … Continue reading →

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Calc Quick Reference

Posted on 2015-05-22 by jcs

In a comment to one of my posts on calc, Sue D. Nymme (love that handle) mentioned that he was working on a quick reference for calc and kindly provided a sneak preview. Now he reports that he’s ready to … Continue reading →

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Jumping to use-package Blocks in Your Emacs Configuration

Posted on 2015-05-21 by jcs

Jordon Biondo published a useful gist that allows you to easily navigate to use-package blocks in your .emacs or init.el file. If you have lots of packages—and therefore lots of use-package blocks—you’ll find it useful. Biondo recommends that you install … Continue reading →

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