Tag Archives: Emacs

Emacs Rocks! Episode 13

Posted on 2012-09-25 by jcs

Magnar Sveen is on a tear and has posted another Emacs Rocks! episode. This one is, to use a phrase Sveen might utter, mind-blowing. It’s a demonstration of his Emacs extension multiple-cursors. When I first saw this extension demonstrated in … Continue reading →

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An Elisp Puzzle

Posted on 2012-09-24 by jcs

Xah Lee points to this interesting tweet The three S’s of SUCCESS by Gary Fredericks and asks for something similar in Elisp. Fredericks’ code is (map (vec “SUCCESS”) [0 5 6]) which certainly isn’t Elisp. My first attempt at Elisp … Continue reading →

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Emacs Rocks Episode 12

Posted on 2012-09-22 by jcs

Magnar Sveen has Episode 12 of Emacs Rocks up. This time it’s about editing HTML. As usual, Sveen demonstrates some nifty tricks to make editing easier. Some of them use standard Emacs functionality and others extensions that he has written. … Continue reading →

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The Acme Editor

Posted on 2012-09-19 by jcs

Russ Cox has posted a video tour of the Acme editor. If I weren’t using (and extraordinarily happy with) Emacs, this is the editor I would be using. For a long time it was only available with Plan 9 but … Continue reading →

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Internal Irreal Links with Emacs

Posted on 2012-09-17 by jcs

I try to keep a couple of posts in reserve for those days when nothing strikes me as worth writing about. Other times, I may write a series of posts on a related topic and not post them until the … Continue reading →

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A Nice Elisp Tutorial

Posted on 2012-09-14 by jcs

Christian Johansen has posted a nice introduction to Elisp. He had a particular problem he wanted to solve with Emacs and the tutorial is about how he went about learning enough Elisp to program a solution. The tutorial is focused … Continue reading →

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Turning URLs into Org Links

Posted on 2012-09-11 by jcs

Often times when doing research for a blog post I will collect a series of URLs that I could potentially use as a link in the post. Nothing new or exciting there; almost every blogger doubtlessly does the same thing. … Continue reading →

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Daniel Weinreb

Posted on 2012-09-09 by jcs

As most of you have heard by now, Daniel Weinreb, one of the Lispers’ Tribal Elders and user/beta tester of the original Emacs, died on September 7. The Boston Globe and Xconomy have obituaries but surprisingly Weinreb had some interaction … Continue reading →

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Cabbage

Posted on 2012-09-07 by jcs

For those looking for a prepackaged Emacs configuration, there is another option available: Cabbage. The configuration is meant to be flexible and extensible and the hope is that a community will emerge around it. If you’re not enthusiastic about dedicating … Continue reading →

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Emacs and Bignums

Posted on 2012-09-02 by jcs

Nic Ferrier has a great post on using bignums with Emacs Lisp. Elisp, of course, does not support bignums but Ferrier has a trick: use the Elisp interface to calc, which does support bignums, to make the necessary calculations. Ferrier … Continue reading →

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