Tag Archives: Emacs

Elisp Input With History And Completion

Posted on 2012-04-13 by jcs

Xah Lee has a nice post up dealing with getting user input with completion and history in Emacs. I usually just use interactive with “s” or possibly “f” or “F” but Lee shows us a better way. Did you know … Continue reading →

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A Note On ace-jump-mode

Posted on 2012-04-12 by jcs

After watching Episode 10 of Emacs Rocks, I fired up ELPA and installed ace-jump-mode. As I indicated in yesterday’s post, you can get it from Marmalade or github. It works beautifully and I’m already addicted to it but I noticed … Continue reading →

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Emacs Rocks! 10

Posted on 2012-04-11 by jcs

Magnar Sveen has Episode 10 of Emacs Rocks! up. This time he demonstrates ace-jump-mode and ido-imenu. Both of these provide fast ways of moving around in an Emacs buffer. They’re really quite impressive as you’ll see when you watch the … Continue reading →

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An Emacs Guide For Noobs

Posted on 2012-04-09 by jcs

David Röthlisberger has posted a nice Emacs guide for beginners. It covers subjects such as Why you might want to learn and use Emacs Basic editing with Emacs Customization Info Ergonomics All in all a nice introduction and well worth … Continue reading →

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Dired Jump

Posted on 2012-04-05 by jcs

I got a great tip today from the ErgoEmacs G+ Page: dired-jump. It’s bound to 【Ctrl+x Ctrl+j】 so it’s easy to call. What it does is jump to the dired buffer corresponding to the current buffer and move the point … Continue reading →

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Slicing Words With Elisp

Posted on 2012-04-04 by jcs

I was playing around with another ITA hiring puzzle today and needed to “slice” a sequence of words. That is, I wanted to form a list of strings consisting of the first letters of each word, the second letters of … Continue reading →

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Solution To The Add-A-Gram Challenge

Posted on 2012-04-03 by jcs

Last week, I issued a challenge to solve the Add-A-Gram puzzle using Emacs and Elisp. The puzzle statement is here. This is an interesting problem that’s easy to get wrong.The solution seems straightforward: Start with a 3-letter word (car, say). … Continue reading →

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Elisp Challenge No. 2

Posted on 2012-03-30 by jcs

The other day, I found a reference to the Add-A-Gram puzzle, which is one of the retired challenges from ITA Software for prospective employees. Today’s challenge is to solve the Add-A-Gram puzzle with Emacs/Elisp. I’ll give a solution next week.

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Org Mode And Living Documents

Posted on 2012-03-27 by jcs

Vsevolod Dyomkin over at Lisp, The Universe and Everything has another in his series of interviews with Lisp hackers. This time it’s with Christophe Rhodes, the principal maintainer of SBCL. It’s an interesting interview and well worth a read so … Continue reading →

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Note Taking With Org

Posted on 2012-03-23 by jcs

I written a few posts recently about how I use Org mode to organize my projects and life (1, 2) so of course I was interested to see Da Zhang’s post on how he uses org-mode as the ultimate note … Continue reading →

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