Tag Archives: Emacs

Prompting for Repository in Magit Status

Posted on 2014-02-18 by jcs

I found another great tip from Leonardo Etcheverry. Sometimes I want to call magit-status but the current buffer isn’t associated with the proper repository. That happens, for example, when I’m in the agenda buffer and want to commit one of … Continue reading →

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Resolving Git Merge Conflicts with Ediff

Posted on 2014-02-17 by jcs

Leonardo Etcheverry has an excellent short post on how to resolve merge conflicts with Magit and ediff. For various reasons, I don’t often encounter merge conflicts so I always struggle with getting them resolved. Etcheverry’s post shows how easy this … Continue reading →

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Running Emacs in the OS X Terminal

Posted on 2014-02-16 by jcs

Most of us, these days, prefer to run everything from a GUI. Of course, there are plenty of times when we need to use a terminal. That can be a problem for Emacs users on OS X because there is … Continue reading →

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Lisp Debugging with Slime

Posted on 2014-02-12 by jcs

Rainer Joswig has a nice video up demonstrating how to debug Lisp with Slime. In a sense there’s nothing new here: most Slime users are pretty much aware of the facilities that he uses. Nevertheless, it’s very useful to see … Continue reading →

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More Peeks at Emacs 24.4

Posted on 2014-02-03 by jcs

Over at Emacs Redux, the ever informative Bozhidar Batsov has a couple more posts up in his series on the upcoming Emacs 24.4 release. The first concerns new string manipulation functions. It’s odd that Emacs has been historically deficient in … Continue reading →

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SBCL 1.1.15 Released

Posted on 2014-02-02 by jcs

Steel-Bank Common Lisp 1.1.15 just got released. As usual, it built and installed without incident on both my Macs. This release brings a new register allocation algorithm, some optimizations that increase the speed of make-array under certain circumstances, some enhancements, … Continue reading →

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A Blank Canvas in Emacs

Posted on 2014-01-25 by jcs

Some people, especially creative writers, like to write on a blank canvas without any distractions from their editor. Bastien Guerry, who we’ve discussed before and who’s sat on both sides of a Sacha Chua interview, has a nice post on … Continue reading →

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Electric Indents

Posted on 2014-01-20 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov over at Emacs Redux has another post up in his series on features of the upcoming Emacs 24.4. This time, he writes about Emacs Auto-indentation. The feature was added in Emacs 24.1 but in version 24.4 it’s enabled … Continue reading →

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Ido Vertical Mode

Posted on 2014-01-19 by jcs

A couple of days ago, I mentioned how much I’m enjoying ido-vertical-mode. I first learned about it from Sacha Chua’s chat with Magnar Sveen as I wrote about previously. Now, serendipitously, Bozhidar Batsov over at the excellent Emacs Redux is … Continue reading →

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Emacs Index Searching

Posted on 2014-01-17 by jcs

Xah Lee has a blog post (2014-01-16) that reminded me of two useful functions that I can never seem to remember: emacs-index-search and elisp-index-search. They allow you to look up a topic in the Emacs or Elisp manuals by querying … Continue reading →

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