Tag Archives: Emacs

Sacha Chats with Christopher Wellons

Posted on 2014-06-04 by jcs

The invaluable Sacha Chua has posted another in her series of Emacs chats. This time it’s with Christopher Wellons. As regular readers know, I’m an admirer of Wellons and have written about him several times (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). … Continue reading →

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Grant Rettke’s Take on Narrowing to Multiple Regions

Posted on 2014-06-03 by jcs

Grant Rettke has his own take on a function to enable narrowing to multiple regions of a buffer. I learned about the idea from comments to a post on another matter and wrote about it here. Rettke takes the example … Continue reading →

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Turning On Undo in a Temporary Buffer

Posted on 2014-06-02 by jcs

Today I learned something new from a short post on Xah Lee’s blog. The idea is that you’ve written a command that generates output in a temporary buffer and you want to enable the undo function for the buffer so … Continue reading →

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org-ref

Posted on 2014-05-30 by jcs

I’ve written previously about John Kitchin and how he uses Emacs and Org mode for reproducible research. Kitchen is a researcher in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University so he writes a lot of technical papers and he uses Org … Continue reading →

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Calculating My Average Post Size

Posted on 2014-05-29 by jcs

Most of my posts are pretty short: maybe 250 words or so. The other day, I began to wonder how long the average post is so I wrote a few lines of Elisp code and just executed it in the … Continue reading →

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Xah Lee on Docstring Markup

Posted on 2014-05-27 by jcs

If you write Emacs functions—even for yourself—you are, of course, including a docstring. Functions have a way of escaping from your init.el and finding their way to someone else’s config. Even if that doesn’t happen you may find yourself happy … Continue reading →

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Navigating with ace-jump-mode

Posted on 2014-05-23 by jcs

This is by way of an obvious Emacs tip. While I was in my emacs.el adding ace-windows, I decided to fix a problem with ace-jump-mode as well. When I first installed it I used【Ctrl+x Space】as the triggering key sequence. Somewhere … Continue reading →

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Some Notes On ace-window

Posted on 2014-05-22 by jcs

The other day, I wrote about ace-window, a really nice way of quickly jumping from one window to another. I used the suggested key sequence 【Meta+p】 to trigger it so it seemed pretty fast. After using it for a while, … Continue reading →

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Sacha Chats with Bozhidar Batsov

Posted on 2014-05-21 by jcs

Sacha Chua has posted the latest episode in her Emacs Chats series. This time it’s with Bozhidar Batsov, who, among other things, runs the excellent Emacs Redux blog. Batsov is also the author of the prelude, projectile, and cider packages … Continue reading →

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Bjarne Stroustrup on Linked Lists

Posted on 2014-05-20 by jcs

Suppose you have a large, sorted sequence of integers that you wish to store in memory. You need to be able to efficiently add and delete elements to and from the sequence while keeping it sorted. What data structure would … Continue reading →

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