Tag Archives: Emacs

Sacha Chats with Xah Lee

Posted on 2014-05-05 by jcs

The indefatigable Sacha Chua has been chatting up a storm lately and has even more scheduled for the near future. Recently she chatted with Xah Lee and discussed his approach to and use of Emacs. It was an interesting chat. … Continue reading →

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An Emacs FFI

Posted on 2014-04-30 by jcs

The estimable Christopher Wellons has another great Emacs post. This time he describes an Emacs Foreign Function Interface that he wrote. He considers it a proof of concept and not quite complete but he shows several examples of using it … Continue reading →

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Guile and Emacs

Posted on 2014-04-24 by jcs

Three years ago, I wrote about a talk by Andy Wingo on the new Guile architecture. One of the most interesting things in the talk for me was Wingo’s plans to integrate Guile into Emacs by replacing the Elisp engine … Continue reading →

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Sacha’s Emacs Beginner Resources

Posted on 2014-04-23 by jcs

Speaking of Sacha Chua—as I did yesterday—she’s got a nice page on beginner resources for Emacs. Chua tasked one of her assistants to seek out resources for learning Emacs and published the results. She’s got all the sites you’d expect: … Continue reading →

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Sacha Chats with Jānis Mancēviĉs

Posted on 2014-04-22 by jcs

Sacha Chua has another Emacs chat up. This time it’s with Jānis Mancēviĉs. It’s a far ranging talk but one of the interesting aspects is Mancēviĉs’s use of Org mode for Literate Programming. He and his team mate use Org … Continue reading →

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An Emacs Lisp Based Common Lisp

Posted on 2014-04-17 by jcs

Lars Brinkhoff has a really interesting project up at GitHub. It’s emacs-cl, a Common Lisp implemented in Emacs Lisp. This probably isn’t all that useful but it sure is awesome. As far as I can tell, it’s a pretty complete. … Continue reading →

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Emacs 24.4 Pretest

Posted on 2014-04-16 by jcs

The first pretest of Emacs 24.4, Emacs 24.3.90, is available via FTP at the GNU Emacs archive. This the first of an expected 6 or so pretest releases leading up to Emacs 24.4. The Emacs devs are now in bug … Continue reading →

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Mickey on Running Shell Commands with Dired

Posted on 2014-04-12 by jcs

The essential Mickey over at Mastering Emacs has another post in his series on dired. This time it’s about running shell commands on multiple files from within Emacs. If you’re a Unix user and used to using find and xargs … Continue reading →

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Narrowing to Multiple Regions

Posted on 2014-04-07 by jcs

One of the joys of writing this blog is the things I learn from the comments. The other day, I wrote about fancy-narrow and that provoked an interesting discussion between Wilfred and Phil. Wilfred compared fancy-narrow to narrow-to-region-indirect. I assumed … Continue reading →

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Ace-Link

Posted on 2014-04-03 by jcs

Oleh Krehel has a nifty new package that brings ace-jump-mode functionality to links in help and info buffers. The package, ace-link, makes following links easy by putting letters in front of each link. You follow the link by picking the … Continue reading →

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