Tag Archives: Emacs

Learning Emacs Keyboard Shortcuts

Posted on 2013-09-08 by jcs

Sacha Chua has been doing a lot of sketch notes lately. One of her most recent contributions are two guides for learning Emacs keyboard shortcuts. These are, of course, aimed at n00bs but they are well done and worth passing … Continue reading →

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Using Org Mode for Custom Workflows

Posted on 2013-09-07 by jcs

jr0cket, aka John Stevenson, is working on a series of posts that discuss how to design a custom workflow with Org Mode. So far, he has a set of three posts but be sure to check his home page for … Continue reading →

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Sacha Does Org

Posted on 2013-09-03 by jcs

The ever-energetic Sacha Chua uses Org mode to organize her life. If you follow her at all you know that She has an extremely busy schedule. She documents everything. If Chua can run her life with Org Mode, just about … Continue reading →

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Lisp and Slime on Windows

Posted on 2013-09-01 by jcs

I haven’t used a Windows machine in decades but my general sense is that using Emacs on Windows can be—er—challenging. Even more so, apparently, is using Slime with Emacs on Windows. It’s nice, then, that Jisang Yoo has come to … Continue reading →

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Common Lisp versus Emacs Lisp

Posted on 2013-08-31 by jcs

As a user of both Elisp and Common Lisp I sometimes have a hard time remembering the small differences. Many of these are “hidden” in the sense that identically named functions behave differently. One such example is that functions such … Continue reading →

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Another Emacs Challenge

Posted on 2013-08-29 by jcs

Over at the Emacs reddit, zoldberghoneydew presents an interesting problem and solution. The problem boils down to creating a hosts file of the form host1 ip-address-of-host-1 … host64 ip-address-of-host-64 where the address of host-n can be looked up in DNS … Continue reading →

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Simon on =eshell=

Posted on 2013-08-22 by jcs

Ben Simon has a couple of nice posts on eshell. In the first, he talks about finally wrapping his head around eshell and shows some of the things you can do with it that you can’t do or that are … Continue reading →

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Essential Elisp Functions

Posted on 2013-08-19 by jcs

Emacs Lisp has a reputation for being difficult to learn but as I’ve said many times, the main difficulty—especially for someone already familiar with Lispy languages—is learning the text-editing specific functions. Most of the rest is just standard Lisp. As … Continue reading →

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My Solution to the Latest VimGolf Challenge

Posted on 2013-08-18 by jcs

Readers contributed many good solutions to this challenge. The mundane solution involves using query-replace-regexp with regular expressions \(w+\) → (\1) for 14 keystrokes or, if you’re a bit more clever w+ → (\&) for 10. Actually, I have electric-pair-mode enabled … Continue reading →

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Emacs Keybindings in OS X

Posted on 2013-08-14 by jcs

I think I’ve mentioned this before but a recent post by Anton Nikishaev reminded me that this is useful information if you fall into the intersection of Emacs and OS X users. OS X has a very configurable keybinding facility … Continue reading →