Tag Archives: Emacs

Sacha Chats with Karl Voit

Posted on 2014-12-08 by jcs

Sacha Chua has a new Emacs Chat up. This time it’s with Karl Voit. It’s a really interesting chat. Voit is concerned with managing personal information and uses Org Mode and some custom scripts to do that. One set of … Continue reading →

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Emacs Documentation

Posted on 2014-12-07 by jcs

Eric Raymond (esr) is a hero of mine. He writes great software and has done yeoman work for Emacs, including the just completed conversion of the repository to Git. Recently, he proposed that Emacs abandon info in favor of a … Continue reading →

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Notes for Emacs N00bs

Posted on 2014-12-06 by jcs

Anthony Tedjamulia has a nice post on What I Wish I’d Known About Emacs. If you’re an experienced Emacser, you won’t find much that you didn’t already know but if you’re just starting with Emacs it’s an excellent orientation. One … Continue reading →

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Vertically Aligning Code

Posted on 2014-12-05 by jcs

Terence Eden has a post in which he argues that code should be vertically aligned. Doing so, he says, improves readability and makes the code easier to understand. As an example, he offers int robert_age = 32; int annalouise_age = … Continue reading →

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Pinning Packages

Posted on 2014-12-04 by jcs

I recently learned something useful from Timo Geusch in a post on pinning a package to a specific archive. It turns out that Emacs 24.4 has a new variable, package-pinned-packages, that tells the package system to get certain packages from … Continue reading →

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Markdown Gets Code Blocks

Posted on 2014-12-03 by jcs

I don’t use Markdown because, as an Emacs user, I have access to the superior Org Mode. Still, if you’re not an Emacs user, Markdown provides a subset of Org Mode’s capabilities and is definitely an excellent piece of software … Continue reading →

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EmacsGolf: Changing Times to 24-Hour Notation

Posted on 2014-12-02 by jcs

Here’s a problem I dealt with recently. We have a tab-delimited data file that has time as one of the fields. The times are in the U.S. 12-hour format with a trailing ‘a’ for AM or a ‘p’ or PM. … Continue reading →

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The Legacy of Emacs

Posted on 2014-12-01 by jcs

Bernd Haug has an interesting take on what the real legacy of Emacs is: #Emacs’s lasting legacy may be keeping #functional programming for real-life applications alive between AI winter and current renaissance. — Bernd Haug (@xaibeha) November 7, 2014

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Animated Paredit Guide

Posted on 2014-11-30 by jcs

Dan Midwood has posted an excellent animated paredit guide. The post consists of animated gifs and supporting text. Midwood’s experience mirrors mine. For a long time he used only the most basic paredit features but then decided to optimize his … Continue reading →

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Installing a Lisp Development Environment on Windows

Posted on 2014-11-26 by jcs

Chris Bagley (Baggers) has a nice video from last year on installing a Common Lisp development enironment on Windows. He walks us through installing Emacs, Slime, SBCL, and Quicklisp on a Windows machine. That includes defining a working directory and … Continue reading →

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