Tag Archives: Emacs

Ashton Wiersdorf has a very interesting post on refactoring in Emacs. His problem is a simple one: we wants to replace all occurrences of set_XXX_config! (where XXX varies) to config_XXX! for all files in a directory. He uses several packages … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs Elements Channel there’s another useful video up. This time it’s about the Emacs Help system. The majority of experienced Emacs users will already be familiar with most of the material but if you’re a learn-as-you-go user, … Continue reading →

I’ve written about Clojure’s threading macros and their implementation in Elisp before [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. I like them but almost always use the traditional composition of functions instead. That’s probably because being a mathematician it seems natural to … Continue reading →

The other day I wrote about installing elfeed-webkit to render my RSS feed as proper HTML. I was pretty impressed with it when I first tried it and now I’m even more of a fan. Before elfeed-webkit, I spent a … Continue reading →

I just stumbled across a post by Fritz Grabo about his package elfeed-webkit. When I first saw it, I thought it was interesting and worth a look. After reading more about it, I knew I had to install it. That … Continue reading →

As far as I know, it started with this reddit post. It was a request for a “built with Emacs” badge. Those badges were the type of thing you used to see on Web sites. I’m pretty sure I had … Continue reading →

Over at Emacs Elements there’s a nice video that explores Emacs regular expressions. One the one hand, virtually everyone hates Emacs regular expressions and wishes that Emacs used Perl compatible regexes instead. On the other hand, a case can be … Continue reading →