Tag Archives: Emacs

Grabbing the Current Browser Tab from Emacs

Posted on 2014-10-06 by jcs

A little while ago, I wrote about grabbing the URL associated with a browser tab from within Emacs. I’ve been using since then and it simplifies things in more ways than I anticipated. Sadly, the method depends on OS X … Continue reading →

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How to Have Fast Hyper, Super, and Meta Keys

Posted on 2014-10-04 by jcs

Via EmacsRocks: #Emacs, meet your new Hyper, Super, and Meta keys… pic.twitter.com/R85oGzbl80 — Jaime Fournier (@Jaime_Fournier) September 30, 2014 Seems a bit hardcore but if you’re a good touch typist and have a heavily customized Emacs, this may be just … Continue reading →

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Final Pretest for Emacs 24.4

Posted on 2014-10-03 by jcs

Michael Fogleman gives us the heads up. RT: The last pretest of #emacs 24.4 was released today. Yuppie :) http://t.co/BfLdw1XTs1 . (via @liranzvibel) — Michael Fogleman (@mwfogleman) October 2, 2014 The long wait is almost over.

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Slightly Obscure Emacs Tips

Posted on 2014-10-03 by jcs

Xah Lee has updated his Emacs Less-known Tips page. It lists tips that Emacs n00bs may not be familiar with. Even more experienced Emacers may learn something new. Well worth a look, especially if you’re a beginner.

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A Nice Dired Tip

Posted on 2014-10-02 by jcs

Borkdude offers up a tip about Dired that I didn’t know: #emacs trick of the day: when you're "C-x-f"-ing through a path and halfway decide you want a dired buffer, just type C-d! — borkdude (@borkdude) October 1, 2014 You … Continue reading →

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Generating Random Trees

Posted on 2014-10-01 by jcs

I’ve mentioned Atabey Kaygun’s blog before. He mostly writes short posts on some mathematical algorithm, which he illustrates with Lisp. One such post was about generating random trees of \(n\) nodes in such a way that every possible tree having … Continue reading →

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Emacs Idioms

Posted on 2014-09-30 by jcs

Learning to configure and extend Emacs is pretty easy for those with a modicum of Lisp experience. Much has been written about the shortcomings of Elisp and while those criticisms have merit, it’s easy for a Lisper to become comfortable … Continue reading →

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Spring Fall Cleaning

Posted on 2014-09-25 by jcs

In a comment to my Mathematics in a Blog Post post, Grant Rettke asked what versions of WordPress and org2blog/wp I was using. It turned out I had a pretty old version of org2blog/wp installed so I decided to upgrade. … Continue reading →

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Sorting in Dired

Posted on 2014-09-24 by jcs

Xah Lee just taught me something new about dired sorting. I mostly just sort the list by name but occasionally I want to see the newer entries so I toggle the sorting to “date” by typing 【s】. It turns out, … Continue reading →

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Correct Quotation Marks

Posted on 2014-09-23 by jcs

There are few things as ugly, typographically speaking, as the straight quotation marks that are the default in most fonts. When you’re writing something that’s going to be rendered with proportional fonts, it’s easy to do the right thing and … Continue reading →

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