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Warp Refactoring With Emacs

Posted on 2023-06-03 by jcs

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 →

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Torstein Johansen on Dumb-jump

Posted on 2023-03-18 by jcs

Torstein Johansen has a short video on one of my favorite navigation packages. These days, everyone appears to want Emacs to offer the completion of those LongAndStupidFunction.names beloved by Javanistas and others. You can’t blame them, of course, but that … Continue reading →

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Mickey on Diacritics in Emacs

Posted on 2022-06-29 by jcs

Back in the Old Days™ ASCII was king and it was pretty much impossible to faithfully render any language that required diacritical marks or non-Latin characters. So essentially you could render English but anything else was iffy. All that changed … Continue reading →

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Some Useful Emacs Shortcuts

Posted on 2022-05-14 by jcs

Just a quickie today. Bhaskar Chowdhury has a short video (6 minutes, 54 seconds) that describes 4 vital Emacs shortcuts. Three of them are probably already in your repertoire: switch-to-buffer (Ctrl+x b) async-shell-command (Meta+&) shell-command (Meta+!) Most of you probably … Continue reading →

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Tony Aldon: Another Wgrep Workflow

Posted on 2022-04-20 by jcs

Ever since I read Abo-abo’s post on using wgrep to edit multiple files, I’ve been a huge fan of using grep to search for some regular expression in multiple file, write enable the results buffer with wgrep, make changes to … Continue reading →

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A Research Work Flow in Emacs and Org-mode

Posted on 2022-04-11 by jcs

Sam Wallace has an interesting post on how he takes research notes. He’s a Mathematics PhD student so he reads lots of papers that he has to take notes on as well as class notes and his own research projects. … Continue reading →

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Corner Quotes

Posted on 2022-01-19 by jcs

John D. Cook has a useful post on using “corner quotes” (⌜ ⌟) to delimit regular expressions in text. As Cook says, it makes a lot of sense especially when the regular expression begins or ends with a space. Cook’s … Continue reading →

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Search Hydra

Posted on 2021-11-13 by jcs

If you use the Ivy/Swiper/Counsel package, you know that are a lot of ways to do searches. So many that it can hard to remember what they all are and how to invoke them. Fortunately, Yuri Tricys has come to … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 80: Completions and More

Posted on 2021-10-27 by jcs

Mike Zamansky is back with another video in his Using Emacs Series. This one is about completions, Marginalia, and Embark. As he said in his last video, he’s refactoring his Emacs configuration and trying to make it simpler so he’s … Continue reading →

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Spell Checking Kitchin Style

Posted on 2021-10-09 by jcs

John Kitchin has another video up in his Scimax series. This one is about how he handles spell checking in Scimax. As I watched the video, I thought that his setup was really new and different but it turns out … Continue reading →

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