Trying out the myriad of Emacs mail clients is no less than an
odyssey. I am proud to say I dove into this sea of protocols and
credentials and emerged from it a better man, albeit empty handed.
[...]
Last week, Bin Chen shared his workflow for merging Github pull
requests. Other than the use of Firefox instead of Conkeror, it was
identical to mine. Now I gladly come to admit that Alexander Yakushev
has outsmarted us both by fixing up magit-gh-pulls-mode, a package
originally written by Yann Hodique which does it all from within
Magit.
[...]
My laptop is so old it is almost getting out-performed by my smartphone,
the principal consequence being that its keyboard has started to give
up on life. Occasionally, a key won't register when I hit it, and
occasionally I'll get paranoid and hit a key twice without knowing it
actually had registered the first time.
[...]
Take a minute now and be honest with yourself. Do you like the shift
key, or do you just put up with it? Perhaps it's just because my hands
are the size of basketballs, but I've always found
Shift hard to reach.
[...]
Narrowing is one of those features you won’t even hear about in a more
mundane editor, but Emacs has an entire keymap for it. While I
wouldn’t want to be without this feature, I’m all for simplification.
[...]
hungry-delete-mode is what I like to call a “free feature” —it
asks nothing of you. In contrast, most other worthwhile features
charge you a price. The cheapest novelties charge some mental effort on
your part to fit into your workflow, the moderate ones ask for some space on
your ever-diminishing set of free keys, and a few narcisistic gems demand
that you adopt a completely new state of mind (paredit, I'm looking at you).
[...]
Jon Snader over at Irreal mentioned that Trey Harris shared on G+ how
to use a fallback font for Unicode Symbols. I won't repeat what they
said here, you've probably seen it already (and if you haven't then
go). I merely come to offer my own solution to this predicament, which
doesn't require any package installation and is pretty configurable to boot.
[...]
I love intuitive keymaps. Some are so perfect, you just can’t avoid
mouthing the words every time you hit that blissful combo. A wizard
murmuring an incantation under his breath as his fingers draw the
arcane patterns.
[...]
Hopefully I'm not the only one who obsessively tries to abide by the
high codes of good practice and writes descriptive documentation on
every last defun or defcustom. If so, I can't be the only one who
has grown tired of typing ` then ' inside Emacs doc strings.
[...]
Emacs is an intelligent editor in more ways than one. Instead of
hardcoding its movement functions (such as end-of-defun or
forward-paragraph), they're implemented in terms of delimiters which
are configured by each major-mode. It works beautifully for functions,
but it feels like a stone in my shoe for paragraphs.
[...]
I've been using 24.4 for months now, yet only today I came to
realise the *Messages* buffer has been granted its own major-mode. The
practical difference is that the buffer is now read-only and has a
non-writing-oriented key-map.
[...]
I am not a fantastic typist. My speed is acceptable, but I make a great
deal of mistakes. The following snippet has turned me into the Messi
of keyboards.
[...]
A gentleman (or woman) by the name of baam_waak recently asked on
/r/emacs how can one make sure a package gets installed in case
requireing it fails. Sadly, this predicament has no perfect
solution, for you require features, not packages. Fortunately, it has
plenty of solutions that are good enough, since features commonly
share the name of their package.
[...]
Write Gmail in Emacs the Easy Way: gmail-message-mode
09 Aug 2014 CommentTrying out the myriad of Emacs mail clients is no less than an odyssey. I am proud to say I dove into this sea of protocols and credentials and emerged from it a better man, albeit empty handed. [...]
Merging Github Pull Requests from Emacs
06 Aug 2014 CommentLast week, Bin Chen shared his workflow for merging Github pull requests. Other than the use of Firefox instead of Conkeror, it was identical to mine. Now I gladly come to admit that Alexander Yakushev has outsmarted us both by fixing up magit-gh-pulls-mode, a package originally written by Yann Hodique which does it all from within Magit. [...]
Faster Keystroke Echo
05 Aug 2014 CommentMy laptop is so old it is almost getting out-performed by my smartphone, the principal consequence being that its keyboard has started to give up on life. Occasionally, a key won't register when I hit it, and occasionally I'll get paranoid and hit a key twice without knowing it actually had registered the first time. [...]
Banishing the Shift Key with Key-Chord in Emacs
02 Aug 2014 CommentTake a minute now and be honest with yourself. Do you like the shift key, or do you just put up with it? Perhaps it's just because my hands are the size of basketballs, but I've always found Shift hard to reach. [...]
Emacs narrow-or-widen-dwim
29 Jul 2014 CommentNarrowing is one of those features you won’t even hear about in a more mundane editor, but Emacs has an entire keymap for it. While I wouldn’t want to be without this feature, I’m all for simplification. [...]
Hungry Delete Mode
26 Jul 2014 Commenthungry-delete-modeis what I like to call a “free feature” —it asks nothing of you. In contrast, most other worthwhile features charge you a price. The cheapest novelties charge some mental effort on your part to fit into your workflow, the moderate ones ask for some space on your ever-diminishing set of free keys, and a few narcisistic gems demand that you adopt a completely new state of mind (paredit, I'm looking at you). [...]Manually Choose a Fallback Font for Unicode
22 Jul 2014 CommentJon Snader over at Irreal mentioned that Trey Harris shared on G+ how to use a fallback font for Unicode Symbols. I won't repeat what they said here, you've probably seen it already (and if you haven't then go). I merely come to offer my own solution to this predicament, which doesn't require any package installation and is pretty configurable to boot. [...]
The Toggle-Map and Wizardry
19 Jul 2014 CommentI love intuitive keymaps. Some are so perfect, you just can’t avoid mouthing the words every time you hit that blissful combo. A wizard murmuring an incantation under his breath as his fingers draw the arcane patterns. [...]
Inserting Documentation Quotes
15 Jul 2014 CommentHopefully I'm not the only one who obsessively tries to abide by the high codes of good practice and writes descriptive documentation on every last
defunordefcustom. If so, I can't be the only one who has grown tired of typing ` then ' inside Emacs doc strings. [...]Meta Binds Part 2: A peeve with paragraphs
12 Jul 2014 CommentEmacs is an intelligent editor in more ways than one. Instead of hardcoding its movement functions (such as
end-of-defunorforward-paragraph), they're implemented in terms of delimiters which are configured by each major-mode. It works beautifully for functions, but it feels like a stone in my shoe for paragraphs. [...]New messages-buffer-mode in Emacs 24.4
08 Jul 2014 CommentI've been using 24.4 for months now, yet only today I came to realise the
*Messages*buffer has been granted its own major-mode. The practical difference is that the buffer is now read-only and has a non-writing-oriented key-map. [...]Emacs Documentation v1.3 Android App: Built-in Viewer and Theme Choice
06 Jul 2014 CommentI've just released version 1.3 of the Emacs Documentation Android app. You can
- download it at the Emacs Online Documentation website,
- or find it at the Play Store (donate version).
[...]Ispell and Abbrev, the Perfect Auto-Correct
05 Jul 2014 CommentI am not a fantastic typist. My speed is acceptable, but I make a great deal of mistakes. The following snippet has turned me into the Messi of keyboards. [...]
Require Feature or Install Package
03 Jul 2014 CommentA gentleman (or woman) by the name of baam_waak recently asked on /r/emacs how can one make sure a package gets installed in case
requireing it fails. Sadly, this predicament has no perfect solution, for you require features, not packages. Fortunately, it has plenty of solutions that are good enough, since features commonly share the name of their package. [...]Ido Bury Buffer
30 Jun 2014 CommentA lesson for the less-informed: while using ido to switch buffers, you can kill buffers with C-k. [...]
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