Tag Archives: Emacs

A Second Jekor Emacs Video

Posted on 2013-07-16 by jcs

I was alerted by this Magnar Sveen tweet that Jekor has another Emacs video up on YouTube. As I mentioned in my post about the first video, these videos are extraordinarily well done and worth your time. This episode discusses … Continue reading →

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A Beginning Emacs Tutorial

Posted on 2013-07-13 by jcs

Jekor (aka Chris Forno) has an excellent beginning Emacs video up on YouTube. It’s the first in a planned series so it just covers the very basics. The video has great production values. Jekor highlights items he’s discussing so it’s … Continue reading →

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Reproducible Research Redux

Posted on 2013-07-09 by jcs

Longtime readers know that I’m a big fan of reproducible research and, specifically, the way that Emacs and Org mode help make it possible. Here’s a very nice video presentation from SciPy2013 by John Kitchin. He describes how he writes … Continue reading →

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Locate and Emacs

Posted on 2013-07-08 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov over at the excellent Emacs Redux tells us something that I didn’t know: It’s possible to call locate from Emacs. For those of you without a Unix background, locate is a utility that will return a list of … Continue reading →

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Multiparadigm Elisp

Posted on 2013-07-04 by jcs

I got a pointer to an interesting Wilfred Hughes post from this Magnar Sveen tweet. The post, Adventures in Multi Paradigm Programming, looks at the power and flexibility of Emacs Lisp. One often hears how Elisp is a crappy language … Continue reading →

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Byte Compiling Elisp

Posted on 2013-07-01 by jcs

I used to obsess about byte compiling my Elisp files but then I realized that The only thing I ever byte compiled was my init.el and updates to the packages I load. Byte compiling your startup file makes no appreciable … Continue reading →

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An Interview With Sacha Chua

Posted on 2013-06-29 by jcs

Bastien Guerry turns the tables on Sacha and interviews her. It’s about 45 minutes so leave some time. The interview follows Sacha’s usual format of exploring how she (as the interviewee) came to Emacs and how she’s using it now … Continue reading →

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Tasker

Posted on 2013-06-26 by jcs

As most of you know, I live in the Apple ecosystem so I was a bit jealous when I read this post by Ben Simon. Simon has an Android phone and therefore has access to the excellent Tasker app. One … Continue reading →

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An Elisp Mystery

Posted on 2013-06-25 by jcs

Over at the Emacs Reddit, wadcann posts a nice idea. The problem is to have abbreviations that touch their surrounding text. The canonical example is punctuation like the em-dash: Many national security professionals—those in the CIA, NSA, and similar… You … Continue reading →

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My Solution to the Last Elisp Challenge

Posted on 2013-06-21 by jcs

The challenge was to convert the output from dstat so that all the bytes values (some of which are given as kilobytes or megabytes) to just bytes. Thus, 2k would become 2048 and 3M would become 3145728. Similarly, dstat outputs … Continue reading →

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