Tag Archives: Emacs

A Nice Example of Interactive Programming

Posted on 2013-10-09 by jcs

I’ve written previously about interactive or exploratory coding. It’s the sort of thing that Emacs and Emacs Lisp make easy and attractive. You sort of feel your way along writing little snippets of code and then stitch them together into … Continue reading →

Posted in Programming | Tagged Emacs, Emacs-lisp | 2 Comments

Emacs Work Flow

Posted on 2013-10-07 by jcs

Michael Wall has a nice post on his Emacs workflow. I found it interesting for two reasons. First, I always enjoy seeing how others solve the problems that we, as developers and Emacs users, all face. Most often, I learn … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Emacs | 3 Comments

Update to the Org Mode Broken Link Problem

Posted on 2013-10-03 by jcs

In my Org Mode and Broken Links post I wrote about a problem with the way that Org 8 handles HTML links. If you want to know how great the Emacs Org Mode community is, read the comments to that … Continue reading →

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Org Mode and Broken Links

Posted on 2013-09-28 by jcs

As a couple of you have pointed out to me recently, HTML links in my posts are sometimes getting broken. That happens when the link has a parameter specified with a question mark and equal sign. For example, here’s a … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Emacs, Org-mode | 5 Comments

Emacs Regular Expression Recap

Posted on 2013-09-27 by jcs

Xah Lee has a nice summary of Emacs regular expressions and how they differ from the other familiar varieties. I may have linked to an older version of this a while ago but it’s a worthwhile link for anyone who … Continue reading →

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Building a Blog with Org Mode

Posted on 2013-09-26 by jcs

As regular readers know, Irreal posts begin as Org Mode files that are subsequently published to WordPress with org2blog. This works very well for me but not everyone wants to run WordPress. For those of you who want to build … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Emacs, Org-mode | 2 Comments

Code Snippets in Org Mode

Posted on 2013-09-23 by jcs

Everyone who’s hung around Irreal for a while knows that I’m a big fan of Org mode and that I use it to, among other things, write all my blog posts. One of the really nice things about it is … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Emacs, Org-mode | 3 Comments

Tracking Emacs Packages

Posted on 2013-09-20 by jcs

Via Xah Lee’s blog, I came across a really interesting project. Artur Malabarba’s EAT (Emacs Archive Tracker) project checks the Gnu, Marmalade, and Melpa archives every couple of hours and displays a graph showing the number of packages added recently. … Continue reading →

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Emacs Startup Packages

Posted on 2013-09-19 by jcs

Xah Lee has a roundup of emacs Starter Kits on his blog. He’s got a list of 5 such kits so there’s a lot to choose from. Lee also notes that you can just install Emacs and add things as … Continue reading →

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Bastien Guerry on Org Mode

Posted on 2013-09-16 by jcs

I just stumbled across this video by Bastien Guerry on Org Mode. It’s a couple of years old but is an excellent introduction to Org Mode and pretty much up to date. If you’re wondering what Org Mode is all … Continue reading →