Tag Archives: Emacs

Org-ref!

Posted on 2014-06-30 by jcs

A month ago, I wrote about John Kitchin’s org-ref package. At the time, it was still an alpha-level project but showed tremendous promise. Happily, Kitchin has continued work on the project and it is now in a ready-for-end-users state. It’s … Continue reading →

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Documentation on the Lisp Machine

Posted on 2014-06-27 by jcs

As regular readers know, one of the things I love about Emacs is its recapitulation of the Lisp Machine. Like most developers, I never had the chance to work on a real Lisp Machine so Emacs is as close as … Continue reading →

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Bozhidar Batsov on Emacs

Posted on 2014-06-26 by jcs

Continuing with yesterday’s theme of Why I Use Emacs, here is an excellent post by Bozhidar Batsov over at (think) on why he uses Emacs. Anyone who follows the Emacs scene will be familiar with Batsov. He blogs regularly and … Continue reading →

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Vincent Foley-Bourgon on Emacs

Posted on 2014-06-25 by jcs

Vincent Foley-Bourgon has a very nice post on why he uses Emacs. I probably like it because his reasons pretty much mirror mine. Still, I think his post will resonate with every Emacs user. Following the old joke, Foley-Bourgon considers … Continue reading →

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Eshell and Abbreviations

Posted on 2014-06-13 by jcs

I’m a big fan of eshell and much prefer it to running Bash inside a terminal buffer. I like to run it full frame and wrote some code to automatically save my window configuration and then run eshell in the … Continue reading →

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ido Completions Buffer

Posted on 2014-06-12 by jcs

I just learned something that the rest of you probably already know. Sometimes when using ido you can get a long list of candidates. Scrolling through them can be a pain. That’s helped a bit by ido-vertical-mode, which I like … Continue reading →

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Emacs and Vi

Posted on 2014-06-10 by jcs

Mike Kozlowski has a thoughtful post on the lessons of Emacs and Vi(m). His thesis is that while the lessons of Emacs have largely been absorbed by those writing editors, those of Vi have not. Emacs versus Vi is one … Continue reading →

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Removing Repeated Occurrences of a Target Character From a String

Posted on 2014-06-09 by jcs

The Problem While I was going through my RSS feed the other day, I came across this Programming Praxis problem and thought right away that the solution called for a state machine. It’s one of those problems that seems easy … Continue reading →

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Magnar Continues His WebRebels Videos

Posted on 2014-06-06 by jcs

The estimable Magnar Sveen has, to use his words, come out of hibernation and continued the posting of his WebRebels talk. This video is part 5 of the series. It’s been a while so if you don’t remember, the official … Continue reading →

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Mutable String and Emacs Buffer Passing Style

Posted on 2014-06-05 by jcs

Speaking of Christopher Wellons, he’s got a very interesting post over at null program on mutable strings and Emacs buffer passing style. Wellons starts by pointing out that strings in Emacs Lisp, like many other languages, have a fixed size … Continue reading →

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