Tag Archives: Emacs

Artist Mode

Posted on 2015-02-19 by jcs

Artist mode is one of those things I learned from Bernt Hansen’s excellent Organize Your Life In Plain Text! introduction to Org mode. I’ve used it in conjunction with ditaa to produce simple but finished block diagrams from ASCII diagrams. … Continue reading →

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Reverting All Buffers to Branch State

Posted on 2015-02-18 by jcs

Handy: A neat way to get all of your buffers reverted to a branch's state, is to go to #magit and type 'g'. #emacs — Pericles Theodorou (@PericlesTheo) January 30, 2015

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Getting the Host Name of the Current Browser Page

Posted on 2015-02-18 by jcs

A while ago I wrote about coding some Elisp to grab the URL of the current Web page and turn it into an Org link. It doesn’t seem like it would reduce friction by that much but it really has … Continue reading →

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Searching Org Files and Buffers

Posted on 2015-02-17 by jcs

Remember Karl Voit from the Sacha Chua chat that I wrote about previously? Voit collects data on just about every aspect of his life and stores it in an Org file. If you haven’t watched the chat yet, be sure … Continue reading →

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Making occur a Bit Smarter

Posted on 2015-02-16 by jcs

Abo-abo is still blogging up a storm and giving us a daily dose of great Elisp. Someone looking to amass a first rate Emacs configuration could do worse than simply grab abo-abo’s daily posts and integrate them into their .emacs … Continue reading →

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Open Emacs Buffers

Posted on 2015-02-14 by jcs

I’m so ashamed: Oh, wow. I had over 200 buffers open in #Emacs (15 day uptime). Didn't even notice. Buffer navigation w/ IBuffer / ido-switch-buffer rocks. — Gergely Nagy (@algernoone) February 6, 2015 Even though my uptime is measured in … Continue reading →

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Org-Page

Posted on 2015-02-13 by jcs

If you’re looking for a static-page blogging engine that you can post to from Emacs, you should take a look at Calum MacRae’s post on blogging with org-page. MacRae writes about his setup in detail so that you can set … Continue reading →

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Cleaning Up Garbage

Posted on 2015-02-12 by jcs

Regular readers know that one of my New Year’s resolutions is to learn more LaTeX. I’ve been having a lot of fun learning and using AUCTeX to write LaTeX documents. I created a tex directory to hold my .tex files … Continue reading →

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Clearing the Comint Buffer

Posted on 2015-02-11 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov over at the excellent Emacs Redux has a very nice post on how to clear comint buffers. Comint is the machinery behind Eshell, and Shell mode. It is a general-purpose mode for communicating with interactive subprocesses and is … Continue reading →

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Narrowing with Multiple Cursors

Posted on 2015-02-10 by jcs

Grant Rettke points to a discussion in the comments from a Sacha Chua post. It turns out that when you’re in multiple cursors you can narrow the view to just those lines having a cursor. That’s something I didn’t know. … Continue reading →

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