Tag Archives: Emacs

Upgrading to Emacs 24.2

Posted on 2012-08-29 by jcs

Just a quick note to announce that I just upgraded my Mac (OS X Lion) to Emacs 24.2 from source. The upgrade went without any problems so if you’re on a Mac, there’s no reason to wait. From the top … Continue reading →

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Impatient Mode

Posted on 2012-08-29 by jcs

You may have seen some of the posts about Chris Wellons’ Emacs HTTP Server, an HTTP server that operates from within Emacs. Now Brian Taylor has built on that to provide Impatient Mode, an Emacs package that renders an Emacs … Continue reading →

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The magic-mode-alist

Posted on 2012-08-28 by jcs

Most Emacs users know how to associate a file type with a major mode by using the auto-mode-alist variable to associate a file extension with a major mode. I recently learned of another way thanks to Xah Lee who posted … Continue reading →

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Emacs

Posted on 2012-08-26 by jcs

It’s everywhere!

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The Emacs Manual in Info

Posted on 2012-08-25 by jcs

This is definitely a note to myself. Doubtless everyone knows this but for some reason I can never seem to remember it so I am recording it in a post. If you’re an Emacs user and your initials are not … Continue reading →

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Emacs Coding Systems

Posted on 2012-08-18 by jcs

Those of us with, ahem, extensive experience can remember when ASCII was pretty much all there was. Happily, things are much different and better today. Now Unicode is all but universal and, in the U.S. at least, UTF-8 is king. … Continue reading →

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Emacs Compilation Errors

Posted on 2012-08-12 by jcs

Over at the Definitely a plug blog there’s a very nice mini-tutorial on using the Emacs compilation facility. When you use 【Meta+x】 compile to run a compilation process, Emacs will parse the error output and allow you to step through … Continue reading →

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The Emacs Configuration File

Posted on 2012-08-07 by jcs

Xah Lee has an interesting post on organizing your emacs init file in which he advocates breaking your .emacs or init.el file into several subfiles. Generally when people do this they organize the subfiles by category or function—all the items … Continue reading →

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Tips for Using Emacs Lisp

Posted on 2012-08-05 by jcs

Nic Ferrier has a nice post entitled Tips on Emacs Lisp programming. The post has been mentioned by many of the Emacs aggregators but it’s a nice post and worth a shout out. Ferrier takes the position that Elisp is … Continue reading →

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Prompting for User Input with Elisp

Posted on 2012-08-04 by jcs

Xah Lee has a nice tutorial on getting user input with Emacs Lisp. Most Elisp programmers are aware of the interactive control strings for this purpose and most of us probably use that for most occasions requiring user input: (defun … Continue reading →

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