Tag Archives: Emacs

Superword- and Subword-Mode in Emacs 24.4

Posted on 2014-03-20 by jcs

If you like—or are forced to use—camelCaseWords, Emacs has subword-mode that will cause word-based cursor movements to stop at each of the individual words. This can sometimes be useful when you repeatedly need to move to one of the constituent … Continue reading →

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Writing Books with Org Mode

Posted on 2014-03-19 by jcs

Oscar Perpiñán Lamigueiro is writing a book. Lots of people do that, of course, but Lamigueiro is doing it with Org Mode. Just the other day, I wrote that Emacs is multifaceted and Lamigueiro demonstrates another of those facets and … Continue reading →

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Why Use Org Mode?

Posted on 2014-03-18 by jcs

Regular Irreal readers know that I’m always talking up Org Mode and urging people to try it out. Many Org Mode users say they switched to Emacs just to get Org Mode. One of the things about Org Mode is … Continue reading →

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Git Flow

Posted on 2014-03-17 by jcs

Recently I’ve seen a lot of articles about git-flow but it was sort of hard to understand exactly how to integrate into your work flow. Happily Kevin Basarab has come to the rescue with a video that shows you how … Continue reading →

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Some Useful Emacs Packages

Posted on 2014-03-14 by jcs

Torstein Johansen has a nice post on useful Emacs packages. As it happens, I use all of those packages except auto-complete so I’m certainly in agreement with his list. The post includes animated gifs so you can see the packages … Continue reading →

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Configuring Emacs as a C/C++ IDE

Posted on 2014-03-13 by jcs

Baris Yuksel has a nice set of videos (Part 1, Part 2) that show you how to configure Emacs to be a reasonable IDE for C and C++. In the first video Yuksel talks about auto-complete, auto-complete-c-headers, and yasnippet. Adding … Continue reading →

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Me Neither

Posted on 2014-03-09 by jcs

Personally, I don't get the excitement surrounding #atomio, but I guess no editor can impress you after a decade spent in #Emacs. — Bozhidar Batsov (@bbatsov) February 27, 2014

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Fixing the Emacs distnoted Problem on OS X 10.9

Posted on 2014-03-07 by jcs

With Emacs 24.3 (and possibly earlier versions) under OS X 10.9 there is a nasty problem that causes distnoted, the OS X distributed notifications daemon, to periodically suck up processor resources and basically tie up the machine. Sometimes it recovers … Continue reading →

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Git Stash

Posted on 2014-02-28 by jcs

Over at softwarecave there’s a nice post on using git stash. In git, the stash is basically a stack on which you can push your current changes while you so something else. Maybe you want to change branches without committing … Continue reading →

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Variable Pitch Mode

Posted on 2014-02-27 by jcs

Today I ran across a tweet that recommends the use of variable-pitch-mode when writing prose instead of code: #emacs tip: when writing prose instead of code toggle M-x variable-pitch-mode for proportional fonts. It's amazing how much it helps. — The … Continue reading →

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