Tag Archives: Emacs

Does Elisp Suck?

Posted on 2012-02-03 by jcs

One of the links from the CategoryCode page that I wrote about yesterday is the Why Does Elisp Suck page. The idea is to give people a place to be grumpy about Elisp. My first thought was that, really, Elisp … Continue reading →

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Learning Elisp Idioms

Posted on 2012-02-02 by jcs

I’ve said before that Emacs Lisp is pretty much like any other Lisp except for its library, which is specialized for editing tasks. One of the things I like about Xah Lee’s Emacs Lisp Tutorial is that it doesn’t concern … Continue reading →

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Fontifying Code Buffers In Emacs Org Mode

Posted on 2012-01-30 by jcs

I just learned a nice trick from the Org Mode Mailing List. By default code blocks in Org-mode buffers are colored gray and don’t show the fontification the way it does in a normal programming buffer. But if you add … Continue reading →

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Journal Article On Org Mode

Posted on 2012-01-28 by jcs

The Journal of Statistical Software has a nice paper by Carsten Dominik (the creator of Org mode), Eric Schulte, Dan Davison, and Thomas Dye about Org Mode and its use in Literate Programming and Reproducible Research. I really like the … Continue reading →

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Emacs Rocks Episode 9 Is Up

Posted on 2012-01-27 by jcs

Magnar Sveen has another episode of his excellent Emacs Rocks up. In this video he talks about expand-region, an Emacs package that he wrote to help with marking text in an intelligent way. The video is less than 3 minutes … Continue reading →

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What Makes Emacs So Great?

Posted on 2012-01-26 by jcs

Over at The Setup they are featuring Phil Hagelberg who has an especially nice take on what makes Emacs so great. He says that Emacs is as close as you can get on modern systems to the fully dynamic environment … Continue reading →

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Useful Emacs Commands Reference

Posted on 2012-01-19 by jcs

Xah Lee has several useful reference pages, such as this one of HTML/XML Entities, that I use all the time. I have them bookmarked for easy reference so that when I, for example, need to know the Unicode character for … Continue reading →

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Emacs On Google+ And Strange Keybindings

Posted on 2012-01-18 by jcs

Xah Lee announced on his Emacs Blog that he has started an Emacs stream on G+. If you’re interested in Emacs, you should check it out. You don’t have to be a G+ member to read the posts. Also interesting … Continue reading →

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Blogging With Emacs—Another Method

Posted on 2012-01-16 by jcs

Today, someone on Hacker News pointed to an old post on Blogging With Emacs over at Work In Progress. Since some of my readers had expressed an interest in how I use Emacs and Org-mode to blog, I thought there … Continue reading →

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Working With Matching Lines In Emacs

Posted on 2012-01-15 by jcs

This is another note to myself. For some reason I have a hard time remembering the handful of commands that do things to the lines in a buffer that match a regular expression. The table below are the ones that … Continue reading →

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