Tag Archives: Emacs

Emacs 24.4 Draws Nigh

Posted on 2013-12-25 by jcs

Not quite in time for Christmas but a new Emacs is coming our way. Stefan Monnier has announced the feature freeze for Emacs 24.4 on the emacs-devel list. I am hearing that things are pretty much working now so if … Continue reading →

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Git Bisect

Posted on 2013-12-23 by jcs

Over at randyfay.com, Randy Fay has a great screencast on debugging with git bisect. If you’re not familiar with git’s bisect command, the idea is to find the git commit that introduced an error. The process is basically a binary … Continue reading →

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A Problem with Magit

Posted on 2013-12-16 by jcs

Two or three weeks ago I noticed a problem with Magit. When I executed magit-status, I no longer got a list of the untracked files. That meant that I couldn’t add new files to a repository with Magit. The thing … Continue reading →

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A Simple EmacsGolf Challenge

Posted on 2013-12-12 by jcs

We haven’t had an EmacsGolf challenge for a while so here’s something simple that was suggested by Xah Lee based on a Stack Overflow question. The Stack Overflow questioner wanted a solution in Vim so the whole thing fits right … Continue reading →

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Mickey on Magit

Posted on 2013-12-11 by jcs

As many of you know, I’m a long time user of Magit and really like it. I’m not, however, a power user and haven’t bothered to learn all the details. It’s hard to find documentation that describes how you go … Continue reading →

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Working with Images in Emacs

Posted on 2013-12-04 by jcs

Over at Bytopia, Alex has a beautiful post on using Emacs to work with images. Alex is trying to train an OCR classifier to recognize characters from grocery store receipts. He started by scanning 4 or 5 receipts and breaking … Continue reading →

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Hyphenating Word Phrases

Posted on 2013-12-02 by jcs

Some word phrases should be hyphenated. For example, you should write “an end-to-end solution” rather than “end to end solution.”1 If you’re like me, you almost always forget about the hyphenation initially and just type “end to end” without stopping … Continue reading →

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Ten Rules for Reproducible Research

Posted on 2013-11-30 by jcs

Those of you have been around for a while know I’m a big fan of reproducible research. I’ve written about it here, here, here, here, here, and here. Now Anton Nekrutenko, James Taylor, and Eivind Hovig have a nice article … Continue reading →

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Notes on the Sacha-Magnar Interview

Posted on 2013-11-29 by jcs

Sacha Chua has posted a followup to her interview with Magnar Sveen. It’s basically a set of topic headings that index into the video of the interview. That’s very nice because if you want to revisit a particular part of … Continue reading →

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A YASnippet Tutorial

Posted on 2013-11-28 by jcs

Matthew Keeler has posted a nice introduction to writing YASnippets. Keeler starts with a minimal snippet that simply includes the GPL 3 boiler plate in the file and then moves on to a for loop snippet for C/C++ that uses … Continue reading →

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