Tag Archives: Emacs

Narrowing the Fancy Way

Posted on 2014-04-01 by jcs

Bruce Connor has an interesting new package up at GitHub. It’s the fancy-narrow package that, as he puts it, imitates narrow-to-region with more eye candy. At first I hated the idea. Being crotchety and grumpy, I’m inclined to treat “eye-candy” … Continue reading →

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Graphviz-dot Mode

Posted on 2014-03-31 by jcs

When I want to draw structural directed graphs and network diagrams my first choice is always dot from the graphviz suite. The syntax is reasonably simple and the documentation has lots of examples to serve as go-bys. The other day, … Continue reading →

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Generating Graphs from an Org Mode File

Posted on 2014-03-30 by jcs

I came across this tweet from Sacha Chua Mwahaha! Learned a lot about Org Babel + Graphviz on the way to making http://t.co/vB7qusi7RR . Used fill-region to wrap labels. #emacs =D — Sacha Chua (@sachac) March 20, 2014 and decided … Continue reading →

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Emacs + Org Mode + Python

Posted on 2014-03-29 by jcs

Back in July of last year I wrote about a great SciPy 2013 talk by John Kitchin on using Emacs, Org Mode, and Python for reproducible research. Today, I came across a reference to the talk, rewatched it, and enjoyed … Continue reading →

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Reformatting JSON

Posted on 2014-03-28 by jcs

A long time ago, I wrote about a way to prettify JSON. It had the advantage that it didn’t require you to load a heavyweight package such as js2-mode when all you wanted was to reformat some JSON in a … Continue reading →

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An Org Mode Cookbook

Posted on 2014-03-26 by jcs

As you all know, I’m always talking up Org Mode and encouraging people to try it out. Org is so flexible that I spend a large percentage of my Emacs time in it. Where others might use a spreadsheet, I … Continue reading →

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Emacs Focus Hooks

Posted on 2014-03-25 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov continues his excellent series on the upcoming Emacs 24.4 release with a post about new hooks for when frames go in or out of focus. As Batsov explains, that allows you to easily save the current file or … Continue reading →

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Variadic Comparisons in Emacs Lisp

Posted on 2014-03-24 by jcs

One of the ways that Emacs Lisp differs from other Lisps is that it doesn’t support multiple arguments for comparisons. That is, you can’t write things like (if (= a b c) do-this else-do-that) or (when (< a b c) … Continue reading →

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Tutorial on Using Org Mode to Write Papers

Posted on 2014-03-22 by jcs

Arne Babenhauserheide has posted another great how-to on using Org Mode. This time it’s on using Org to write technical papers for publication. As with his previous post that I wrote about, this one can be exported to HTML or … Continue reading →

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Emacs 24.4 Desktop-Save-Mode

Posted on 2014-03-21 by jcs

Like many Emacs users, I keep Emacs running continuously on my machines. To maintain the illusion of a constantly running Emacs, I use desktop-save-mode to maintain my configuration across invocations of Emacs or even reboots. Other than things like forgetting … Continue reading →

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