Tag Archives: Emacs

Zamansky: Learning Elisp #13

Posted on 2023-11-09 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has published the latest video in his emoji project. It’s a short video but, for me, the most useful so far. That’s because it’s about something I didn’t understand very well: overlays. In the last video, Zamansky showed … Continue reading →

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Org-flow-mode

Posted on 2023-11-04 by jcs

jouke hijlkema has published a nifty project that uses Org mode to draw flow charts. “Uses Org mode” means, in addition to the obvious, that the Org source tree reflects the diagram tree. The project is still new and development … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: You Don’t Need A Terminal Emulator

Posted on 2023-11-03 by jcs

Andrey Listopadov has an interesting post that advances the notion that you don’t need a terminal emulator. To developers, that’s already an idea worthy of being included as a Red Meat Friday offering but the real reason this is a … Continue reading →

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Emacs Line Wrapping

Posted on 2023-11-01 by jcs

Line breaking in Emacs is a complicated thing. By default the line just stops at the window edge and you have to scroll right to see some or all of the truncated part. This is called truncating long lines. That’s … Continue reading →

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Zamansky: Learning Elisp #12

Posted on 2023-10-31 by jcs

Mike Zamansky just published the latest video in his Learning Elisp series. This is the second video is his project to insert emojis into a buffer by replacing keywords with the corresponding emoji. In his previous post, Zamansky showed how … Continue reading →

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An Occur Video

Posted on 2023-10-30 by jcs

Occur is, I think, an underappreciated command. At first glance, it seems sort of like grep except it works on buffers rather than files. You give it a regular expression and it opens a new buffer that lists the matches. … Continue reading →

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Customizing Emacs Menus

Posted on 2023-10-28 by jcs

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not a big fan of Emacs menus. That’s mostly because I’m much faster if I can stick to the keyboard and, of course, my general desire to avoid the mouse when I can. Still, I … Continue reading →

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Open Xcode From Emacs At The Same Line

Posted on 2023-10-27 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez has a nice post on opening a file in the macOS Xcode editor from Emacs. There’s nothing unusual about that, of course, but Ramírez’s wrinkle is that he wants Xcode to open at the same line the Emacs … Continue reading →

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Elisp Links

Posted on 2023-10-26 by jcs

In order to be a really proficient Emacs user, you’re going to have to learn at least a little bit of Elisp. As I’ve said before, Elisp is at once both easy and hard to learn. Like all Lisps, there’s … Continue reading →

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Crafted Emacs v2

Posted on 2023-10-25 by jcs

Michael Ashley wrote to tell me that System Crafters has released version 2 of their Crafted Emacs configuration. Irreal readers will be familiar with System Crafters from David Wilson’s System Crafters video series that I’ve written about many times. It … Continue reading →

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