Tag Archives: Emacs

A Hydra Video

Posted on 2015-02-09 by jcs

If you took my advice and starting following (or emacs you’ll be familiar with abo-abo’s hydra package. It started out as a relatively simple macro, def-rep-command, that allows a command with a prefix to be repeated by merely pressing the … Continue reading →

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Kitchin on Using `helm` to Ease Navigation

Posted on 2015-02-06 by jcs

John Kitchin, who in addition to being a professor with all the work that that entails, has been busy showing us how to leverage Emacs to ease our work flows. If you’re a helm user, Kitchin has some nice Elisp … Continue reading →

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The Answer to Blogging Friction

Posted on 2015-02-05 by jcs

Although regular readers are familiar with it, here is a quick review of the history of my blogging work flow. In my old blog on Blogger, I was already using Org-mode but I exported the Org to HTML and pasted … Continue reading →

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Uncommon Bigrams

Posted on 2015-02-04 by jcs

Recently, Sacha Chua wrote about how she leveraged abo-abo’s def-repeat-command to easily call windmove and ace-window. She bound the function to the prefix key-chord of yy. That seemed an odd choice to me but I just shrugged and moved on. … Continue reading →

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Inserting C++ Object Names

Posted on 2015-02-03 by jcs

If you have the misfortune to be a C++ user, abo-abo over at (or emacs has a nifty bit of Elisp to make inserting code like some_object.method() much easier.

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Sacha on Org Using Org Tables

Posted on 2015-02-02 by jcs

Sacha Chua has an outstanding post on how to add data to and get data from Org mode tables. I’ve written a lot about using Org tables and what used to be called Babel to calculate results from the tables … Continue reading →

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The Emacs Honor Society

Posted on 2015-02-01 by jcs

John Kitchin, whose work I’ve mentioned many times, states the obvious. What would the Emacs honor society be called? λλλ of course. #emacs — John Kitchin (@johnkitchin) December 20, 2014

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Running a Course Video

Posted on 2015-01-31 by jcs

My New Year’s post was about how John Kitchin used Emacs and Org-mode to run a graduate course in Chemical Engineering. If you want to see it in action, he’s posted a short video that shows the system from both … Continue reading →

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A Nice Org Mode Tip

Posted on 2015-01-30 by jcs

#Emacs of the day: Daily status reports? Notes in org-mode? Grab the block with "M-h" then "C-c C-e h o" export as HTML & open in browser. — Robin Green (@fatlimey) January 19, 2015

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Refactoring Multiple Files

Posted on 2015-01-30 by jcs

When I get tired of blogging I’m going to write some Elisp that everyday will make a post that says, “Abo-abo has a great post today. Go read it.” Really, if you don’t already have (or emacs in your feed, … Continue reading →