Tag Archives: Emacs

More On Lexical Scoping

Posted on 2012-06-25 by jcs

Yesterday I posted a reminder about Yoo Box’s excellent article on lexical binding in Emacs 24. I recently came across a post by Sergey M over at On elisp and programming in general that also considers lexical scoping in Emacs … Continue reading →

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A Reminder About Lexical Scoping in Emacs

Posted on 2012-06-24 by jcs

Back in January, I wrote a short post recommending Yoo Box’s piece on lexical scoping in Emacs 24. Now that Emacs 24 is officially released, this seems like a good time to remind folks about Box’s post. If the idea … Continue reading →

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Reverting All Buffers

Posted on 2012-06-21 by jcs

I have two machines on which I do most of my writing and development: a 27″ iMac and a 5 year old MacBook Pro. I use both of these computers everyday so I need to keep them in sync. I … Continue reading →

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The Emacs CL Controversy

Posted on 2012-06-19 by jcs

The other day I was griping to Xah Lee off-line about the refusal of the Emacs maintainers to add the CL package functionality to the core Elisp distribution. Lee pointed me at several threads on the emacs-devel mailing list that … Continue reading →

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Installing Aspell

Posted on 2012-06-17 by jcs

As I posted yesterday, it turns out that I have some old 32 bit software left over from Fink installs on my machines. As far as I know, none of it was being used except for Ispell. Once I got … Continue reading →

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Building Emacs 24 on OS X Lion

Posted on 2012-06-16 by jcs

Now that Emacs 24.1 was officially released it was time to stop messing around and actually get it installed. I tried that last year but had problems with configure not finding tputs in any of the curses libraries. This time … Continue reading →

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Replacing a Region With the Last Kill

Posted on 2012-06-14 by jcs

I learned a another neat trick from Aaron Hawley’s Giant Emacs Reference Sheet. This is another of those tricks, like the revert buffer shortcut, that uses keystrokes intended to do something else in a novel way to accomplish something unexpected. … Continue reading →

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A Page on Emacs 24’s New Features

Posted on 2012-06-13 by jcs

Xah Lee has started a page on New Features in Emacs 24. He’s promising to add to it every few days so it might be a good place to go to get familiar with some of Emacs 24’s new goodies … Continue reading →

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Muscle Memory

Posted on 2012-06-12 by jcs

I can so empathize.

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Emacs 24.1 Has Been Released

Posted on 2012-06-10 by jcs

Emacs 24.1 is ready for download from the usual places. There’s all kinds of little improvements that we’ve talked about from time to time but the main features, as described by the release notice, are: The new packaging system. This … Continue reading →

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