Tag Archives: Emacs

Literate DevOps

Posted on 2015-03-18 by jcs

As regular readers know, I’m a big fan of reproducible research. It makes it possible for anyone—even yourself—to reproduce all the steps of your research exactly as you performed it. A related concept, termed Literate DevOps by Howard Abrams, does … Continue reading →

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An Apropos Hydra

Posted on 2015-03-17 by jcs

Abo-abo is still blogging up a storm. I haven’t commented on every post because if I did I wouldn’t have time for writing about anything else. His latest post is about a hydra for apropos. My first reaction was, “Meh, … Continue reading →

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Editing Files as Root

Posted on 2015-03-16 by jcs

How many times have you brought up a file to edit and discovered that you don’t have write permissions? Usually they’re system files but sometimes you’re tying to help a colleague and don’t have the proper permissions. You can always … Continue reading →

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And Make the Coffee

Posted on 2015-03-15 by jcs

So much more than a Swiss Army Knife: How to end any #vi <-> #emacs discussion; Emacs can make coffee http://t.co/xDfQyeuaUV — Joerg Rings (@JoergR) February 13, 2015

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Working with Key Sequences

Posted on 2015-03-13 by jcs

Howard Abrams has a nice post on working with key sequences. He shows how to set up personal key maps with a common prefix. Abrams likes to use 【F9】 as a prefix to several maps. For example, 【F9 m】 is … Continue reading →

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Sacha on the Power of Plain Text

Posted on 2015-03-12 by jcs

Sacha Chua has a nice post on the power of plain text. There are, she says, three main ways of storing text1: The Heavy Weight Methods This is mainly database systems. Chua says she uses these tools mainly when she’s … Continue reading →

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Link to a Specific Line in a File from Org

Posted on 2015-03-11 by jcs

A nice tip from Robin Green: #Emacs of the day: Want to reference a line from a source file in your docs? Use OrgMode links formatted like file:/path/to/MyFile.cpp::216 — Robin Green (@fatlimey) February 10, 2015

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Moving The Custom Data Out of init.el

Posted on 2015-03-09 by jcs

I never use the Emacs custom facility. It puts cryptic (alright, not too cryptic) entries into the custom-set-variables and custom-set-faces lists that are far away from all the rest of the customizations for a given package. Even worse, some packages—I’m … Continue reading →

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Where’s Your Emacs Initialization File?

Posted on 2015-03-08 by jcs

TIL: The Emacs variable user-init-file contains the file path of the current initialization file. (via Daniel Ehrman).

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Customizing the Ace-Window Selection Face

Posted on 2015-03-06 by jcs

Abo-abo has made a slight enhancement to ace-window that makes it possible to customize the face of the selection character of each window. Take a look at the example in abo-abo’s post to see what I mean. It makes the … Continue reading →

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