Tag Archives: Emacs

Icomplete Mode

Posted on 2012-12-03 by jcs

Per Xah Lee (search for 2012-11-28), I’ve experimentally turned on icomplete-mode. I’m not sure how I like it so I haven’t included it in my init.el file yet. According the internal documentation, icomplete-mode “implements a more fine-grained minibuffer completion feedback … Continue reading →

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Let’s Play VimGolf

Posted on 2012-11-30 by jcs

Or VimGolf in Emacs anyway. Over at Life seen through a coder’s eyes, Yassine Chaouche poses the following problem. Starting with an Emacs buffer containing only [[Image(grep_1.png)]] end up with [[Image(grep_1.png)]] [[Image(grep_2.png)]] [[Image(grep_3.png)]] [[Image(grep_4.png)]] [[Image(grep_5.png)]] [[Image(grep_6.png)]] [[Image(grep_7.png)]] [[Image(grep_8.png)]] Chaouche solves … Continue reading →

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A Hyper Key for the Mac

Posted on 2012-11-28 by jcs

The other day I wrote about using the Mac’s virtual keypad to get some additional key sequences for Emacs. That didn’t work out as well as I’d hoped because, unlike my MacBook Pro, the keyboard for my iMac doesn’t have … Continue reading →

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Using the Keypad

Posted on 2012-11-26 by jcs

Xah Lee has an interesting post on defining keys to open frequently used files (search for 2012-11-21). The idea is that you add lines like (global-set-key (kbd “<kp-7> <kp-3>”) (lambda () “” (interactive) (find-file “~/web/ergoemacs_org/emacs/blog.html”))) for each of the files … Continue reading →

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Why We Use IDEs

Posted on 2012-11-23 by jcs

Wille Faler over at recursivity.com has a nice post on IDEs and why we need them. His take is that if you need an IDE it’s because of shortcomings in the language you’re using. He has in mind, of course, … Continue reading →

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Bashisms

Posted on 2012-11-22 by jcs

Russell Power over at rjpower.org has a nice post on some Bash tricks. Despite over 20 years of Bash use I learned something new. It turns out that if you type【Ctrl+x Ctrl+e】Bash will bring up an editor session that allows … Continue reading →

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Xah’s Unicode Gallery

Posted on 2012-11-18 by jcs

Speaking of Unicode, as I did yesterday, Xah Lee has updated and rearranged all his pages dealing with Unicode and added a single, unified Unicode Gallery & Tutorial index page. I really like this because it provides a single page … Continue reading →

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Some Common Sense on OOP

Posted on 2012-11-15 by jcs

A few days ago, I ran across an interesting and commonsensical article on OOP by James Hague over at programming in the twenty-first century. In it he says that while OOP is sometimes useful, it’s not a fundamental particle of … Continue reading →

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An Optimal `.emacs` File

Posted on 2012-11-14 by jcs

I recently stumbled across this old post from Nickel’s Worth on optimizing your .emacs file. It’s from 2009 so it is, in some parts, dated but it still contains a lot of good ideas. To me, the most controversial piece … Continue reading →

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Advanced Dired Tips

Posted on 2012-11-12 by jcs

Xah Lee has updated his Emacs Advanced dired Tips page. I thought I knew all this stuff but Lee has some tips I wasn’t aware of. For example, you can configure what dired does when you try to copy or … Continue reading →