Tag Archives: Emacs

Emacs Byte Code

Posted on 2014-01-14 by jcs

Over at null program, Christopher Wellons has an excellent post on Emacs Byte Code Internals. Most people won’t care, of course, but we’re nerds and we don’t like black boxes. As Wellons says, the byte code internals are under documented—or … Continue reading →

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Emacs Colors with OS X

Posted on 2014-01-13 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov has his third post on the features of the coming Emacs 24.4 up. This time, he discusses the addition of sRGB to the NextStep (NS) build section of Emacs. The NS build section is where all the Mac … Continue reading →

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Unicode Representation in Emacs Strings

Posted on 2014-01-10 by jcs

Xah Lee posted a useful fact that I’m sure I knew but had forgotten or at least not internalized. The tip is how to encode unicode in Emacs strings. Given that Emacs supports Unicode and, indeed, uses UTF-8 as its … Continue reading →

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Slime Moving to Github

Posted on 2014-01-07 by jcs

Xach is reporting that Slime is moving to Github. That’s great news but mostly it’s good news for Xach who no longer has to deal with CVS to get the latest version of Slime for Quicklisp. For the rest of … Continue reading →

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Serializable Emacs Objects

Posted on 2014-01-04 by jcs

Christopher Wellons over at null program has a very nice post on readable closures in Emacs. With the introduction of lexical scoping and, consequently, closures in Emacs 24 it’s nice to discover that Elisp closures are readable. That is, you … Continue reading →

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Popup Windows in Emacs

Posted on 2014-01-02 by jcs

Kris Jenkins has a nice post on using the popup package to pop up help windows in Emacs. He shows a tiny amount of Elisp that pops up the system help for the symbol at point. It would be easy … Continue reading →

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Bozhidar Batsov on Emacs 24.4

Posted on 2014-01-01 by jcs

Over at Emacs Redux, Bozhidar Batsov is promising a peek at some of the Emacs 24.4 features. Because he contributed code to the release, he’s followed the development carefully and has been using it exclusively for the last six months … Continue reading →

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RTFM

Posted on 2013-12-31 by jcs

Some time ago1, I noticed that the Org footnote mechanism was not working correctly. As with similar footnote facilities, you add a footnote by marking where you want the footnote to appear in the text and then adding a paragraph … Continue reading →

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Mickey on Emacs 24.4

Posted on 2013-12-30 by jcs

As he has for the past several releases, Mickey over at Mastering Emacs has perused the NEWS file for the upcoming Emacs 24.4 and produced an informative post on what’s new. There are a couple of good reasons to read … Continue reading →

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Data Loss and Reproducible Research

Posted on 2013-12-26 by jcs

As long-time readers know, I’m a big fan of reproducible research (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). The aspect that I’m particularly interested in is keeping the data, software, and other supporting material together with the source for the … Continue reading →

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