Wow, literate devops with Emacs and Org does actually work on Windows
Since I persist in using Microsoft Windows as my base system, I’m used to not being able to do the kind of nifty tricks that other people do with Emacs and shell stuff. So I was delighted to find that...
View Article2015-10-18 Emacs link round-up
How do you find out about cool new packages? Reddit suggests /r/emacs, emacs.zeef.com, Paradox or package-list-packages, @melpa_emacs, Emacs-related blogs, gnu.emacs.sources, rubikitch’s feed, the...
View Article2015-10-26 Emacs News
Beginner tips: How can you get started configuring Emacs? Reddit recommends the built-in tutorial (C-h t), M-x customize, other people’s configs, spacemacs, and so on. You can use TRAMP to edit or...
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2015-11-02 Emacs News
Beginner tips: You can change the text size with C-x C-- and C-x C-+. Check out these recommended basic Emacs resources. Emacs teaching/evangelization tips Coding: Magit demo (including rebasing) New...
View ArticleCapturing links quickly with emacsclient, org-protocol, and Chrome Shortcut...
Since I’ll be snipping lots of Emacs-related resources and organizing them into Emacs news roundups, I figured it was time to get org-protocol working. Step 1: Get emacsclient to work I was getting the...
View Article2015-11-09 Emacs News
New Emacs maintainer: John Wiegley – discussion on Reddit, Hacker News Emacs configuration: Join line to following line – see Kaushal’s comment for an alternate binding that treats comments...
View Article2015-11-16 Emacs News
For beginners Things I wish they told you about Emacs Learn Emacs Lisp in 15 minutes CleanNeedles–Download Emacs Part 1 (7:13) Navigation pop-global-mark and pop-tag-mark are handy ways of going back...
View Article2015-11-18 Emacs Hangout
Coding, e-mail, LaTeX, and more. Enjoy! Event page: https://plus.google.com/events/cpef1jv0oq673aneiigh7q5n7lk Timestamps: 0:02 Podcasts 0:03 sweetgreen – ordering salad 0:14 Windows 0:16 exwm – emacs...
View ArticleMail with Gnus on Windows
I use Gmail for my mail because it: synchronizes with my phone, which is handy for notifications and quick replies filters most of the spam for me works with a few interesting extensions such as...
View Article2015-11-23 Emacs News
Org Mode Start simple Pragmatic Emacs: Org-mode basics VI: A simple TODO list Many ways to use org-mode Org in a mixed Vim/Emacs environment – vim-todoo Inline tasks Irreal: Asynchronous Python in Org...
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Org Mode tables and fill-in quizzes – Latin verb conjugation drills in Emacs
I was looking for a Latin verb conjugation drill similar to these ones for and nouns and pronouns. I liked the instant feedback and the ability to quickly get hints. I couldn’t find an online drill I...
View Article2015-11-30 Emacs News
Beginner tips Get started with Emacs Get pop-up help for keybindings with which-key Coding Make spell check handle code better Highlight indentation Split statements onto multiple lines Move...
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Making my to-do list more detailed; process versus outcome
Some time ago, I wrote some code to make it easier for me to update my web-based Quantified Awesome time logs from Org Mode in Emacs, clocking into specific tasks or quickly selecting routine tasks...
View Article2015-12-07 Emacs News
Beginner tips: Beginner’s tweaks for emacs How to Fix a Stuck Emacs Navigation: Helm + LDAP in emacs (7:55) DWIM Narrowing Improvement Ivy-mode 0.7.0 is out · (or emacs Scroll so that whole paragraphs...
View Article2015-12-10 Emacs Chat: John Wiegley on maintaining Emacs and how you can help
John Wiegley shared how he uses Gnus and Org to help him with the volume of Emacs-related information, and how people can get started with Emacs development. 0:02 Gnus for mail and news 0:04 Organizing...
View Article2015-12-14 Emacs News
Configuration: Magnar’s collection of defuns ocodo’s collection of defuns Making My Emacs Start Faster | Hacker News: emacsclient, lazy loading, dumping; also on Reddit Vertical Minibuffer list...
View ArticleScan ~/bin and turn the scripts into Emacs commands
I want to automate little things on my computer so that I don’t have to look up command lines or stitch together different applications. Many of these things make sense to turn into shell scripts. That...
View Article2015-12-21 Emacs News
Coding Cask Package Toolset v0.9 now Released! (Reddit) What mode(s) should I use for Java? Emacs elpy – Switch to shell demo – YouTube (0:28) Navigation Improving Emacs file-name completion: Make...
View Article2015-12-21 Emacs Hangout
Embarrassing technical issues, but fortunately, people are awesome and patient! =) Skip to about 0:07 or 0:12 or something if you want to get to the conversation part. Text chat: me:...
View Article2015-12-28 Emacs News
Navigation: Use Ivy-mode to tweak workgroups2 (Reddit) Faster pop-to-mark command: Go back to the last place – C-u C-SPC popup-imenu – select imenu items via popup window with fuzzy matching (Reddit)...
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