This tip comes from colleague of mine. Ben has a mailing group at work where he
sends weekly Emacs tips. They’re always short and useful, but today’s tip was
quite the gem for me. Emacs has a comment-box command.
[...]
“With great power comes great responsibility,” and Emacs is a prime example of
that. The versatility of having an editor that’s a lisp interpreter is truly
empowering, but it can also backfire on you in the most unexpected ways. If
you’ve ever ran into a foggy incompatibility issue between two unrelated
packages, that manifested itself by turning on your mother’s coffee machine every other
weekday, then you know how difficult this can be to track down.
[...]
I’ve never been too pleased with the default behaviour of Backspace during
isearch. If the last key you hit was C-s, then it does the same as C-r
(albeit with less repetition), and if your match failed several characters ago,
you need to hit it that many times to get back on track. Fortunately, asmeurer
took the time to phrase this problem I barely realised I had.
[...]
SX.el, the awesome Emacs client for the StackExchange network, has been stable
and happy for many months now, and it’s about time I mentioned it here. We have
put considerable effort into making the interface intuitive, teaching you how to
use it without the need for explanations. In fact, it would probably be a
disservice to the package for me to post a tutorial, so I won’t just yet.
Instead, I’ll just urge you to give it a try.
[...]
Cluttered as our keyboards are with key-binds, it's always nice when we can
combine two disjoint functionalities in the same key. I have M-k and C-M-k
bound to killing the next and previous sexp, respectively, but that is never
something I need inside a string or when typing a file name in the minibuffer.
Then these keys become utterly useless!
[...]
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working on a Clojure debugger for Cider
that is strongly inspired by Edebug. Stepping trough code of any form and
injecting values into running code are the features available in this first
release.
[...]
Thanks to Nicolas Petton, Emacs is getting a new built-in sequence library in
25.1, and it’s already available on GNU Elpa for everyone. There’s not much to
be said about this besides the obvious “it’s about time”.
[...]
In contrast with fetching pull requests, which either requires a minor-mode or
some long-named branches, creating pull requests is as easy as a one-key deal.
[...]
Did you know you can fetch Github pull requests with git by adding a
remote.origin.fetch configuration? That insightful tip is a courtesy of Oleh
at (or emacs, a very active blog that has a habit of unbalancing parentheses
wherever it goes). I like the tip so much I wanted to add something to it.
Instead of manually adding that line to you .git/config file, why not have
Magit do that for you?
[...]
After adding asynchronous operations to Paradox, I saw the need to provide some
visual feedback to the user. In the simplest sense, this could be a fixed
message on the mode-line, such as “Upgrading…” or “Working”, but this is
not enough. I needed movement. Movement implies something is ongoing. It catches
your eye and gives you that subconscious reassurance that progress is being
made. A tiny spinning wheel, hourglass, or rainbow is enough to sooth all your
doubts, unerringly restoring your confidence on the software and those who made
it.
[...]
Now that you’ve started your journey on the Typography Express by using round
double quotes, take a seat and extend that to your apostrophes as well. This
snippet binds a round apostrophe to the ' key, but also inserts a pair of
single round quotes with a prefix.
[...]
Almost every directory I work with, is either directly under “~/Dropbox/” or
under “~/Dropbox/Work/”. However, I never actually visit these two directories,
only the directories inside them. The number of possible targets for find-file
is approaching the outer borders of two-digit land, so there's no hope for my
brain to remember registers for all of these.
[...]
I've just released Paradox version 2.0. If you've been following the blog, you
already know this features the ability to do background upgrades. Below is a list
of other features.
[...]
After the previous post, I got in touch with the nice fellas at emacs-devel
about including comment-line in Emacs. Understandably, there was a wee bit of
concern with using up one of the oh-so-important C- binds, so it's been put
under C-x C-; for now.
[...]
Paradox has had this feature
for a while, but I've never blogged about it. When you're in the Packages Menu, and you're about to upgrade your
packages with the always reliable U x, do you ever wonder what's actually
changed in them? When I do it, there's usually something between 5 and 20 of
them just waiting for me to answer y, but rarely do I see any actual
difference in the new versions.
[...]
Comment boxes
28 Apr 2015 CommentThis tip comes from colleague of mine. Ben has a mailing group at work where he sends weekly Emacs tips. They’re always short and useful, but today’s tip was quite the gem for me. Emacs has a
comment-boxcommand. [...]Debug your Emacs init file with the Bug-Hunter
27 Apr 2015 Comment“With great power comes great responsibility,” and Emacs is a prime example of that. The versatility of having an editor that’s a lisp interpreter is truly empowering, but it can also backfire on you in the most unexpected ways. If you’ve ever ran into a foggy incompatibility issue between two unrelated packages, that manifested itself by turning on your mother’s coffee machine every other weekday, then you know how difficult this can be to track down. [...]
Better backspace during isearch
20 Apr 2015 CommentI’ve never been too pleased with the default behaviour of Backspace during
isearch. If the last key you hit was C-s, then it does the same as C-r (albeit with less repetition), and if your match failed several characters ago, you need to hit it that many times to get back on track. Fortunately, asmeurer took the time to phrase this problem I barely realised I had. [...](Very Late) SX.el Announcement, and more launcher-map
13 Apr 2015 CommentSX.el, the awesome Emacs client for the StackExchange network, has been stable and happy for many months now, and it’s about time I mentioned it here. We have put considerable effort into making the interface intuitive, teaching you how to use it without the need for explanations. In fact, it would probably be a disservice to the package for me to post a tutorial, so I won’t just yet. Instead, I’ll just urge you to give it a try. [...]
Kill Sexp or Directory
07 Apr 2015 CommentCluttered as our keyboards are with key-binds, it's always nice when we can combine two disjoint functionalities in the same key. I have M-k and C-M-k bound to killing the next and previous sexp, respectively, but that is never something I need inside a string or when typing a file name in the minibuffer. Then these keys become utterly useless! [...]
Cider-debug, a visual, interactive, debugger for Clojure
30 Mar 2015 CommentOver the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working on a Clojure debugger for Cider that is strongly inspired by Edebug. Stepping trough code of any form and injecting values into running code are the features available in this first release. [...]
New on Elpa and in Emacs 25.1: seq.el
23 Mar 2015 CommentThanks to Nicolas Petton, Emacs is getting a new built-in sequence library in 25.1, and it’s already available on GNU Elpa for everyone. There’s not much to be said about this besides the obvious “it’s about time”. [...]
Easily Create Github PRs from Magit
17 Mar 2015 CommentIn contrast with fetching pull requests, which either requires a minor-mode or some long-named branches, creating pull requests is as easy as a one-key deal. [...]
Automatically configure Magit to access Github PRs
11 Mar 2015 CommentDid you know you can fetch Github pull requests with git by adding a
remote.origin.fetchconfiguration? That insightful tip is a courtesy of Oleh at (or emacs, a very active blog that has a habit of unbalancing parentheses wherever it goes). I like the tip so much I wanted to add something to it. Instead of manually adding that line to you.git/configfile, why not have Magit do that for you? [...]New on Elpa: Spinner.el, mode-line spinners and progress-bars
09 Mar 2015 CommentAfter adding asynchronous operations to Paradox, I saw the need to provide some visual feedback to the user. In the simplest sense, this could be a fixed message on the mode-line, such as “Upgrading…” or “Working”, but this is not enough. I needed movement. Movement implies something is ongoing. It catches your eye and gives you that subconscious reassurance that progress is being made. A tiny spinning wheel, hourglass, or rainbow is enough to sooth all your doubts, unerringly restoring your confidence on the software and those who made it. [...]
Prettify your Apostrophes
02 Mar 2015 CommentNow that you’ve started your journey on the Typography Express by using round double quotes, take a seat and extend that to your apostrophes as well. This snippet binds a round apostrophe to the ' key, but also inserts a pair of single round quotes with a prefix. [...]
Visit Directory inside a Set of Directories
23 Feb 2015 CommentAlmost every directory I work with, is either directly under “~/Dropbox/” or under “~/Dropbox/Work/”. However, I never actually visit these two directories, only the directories inside them. The number of possible targets for
find-fileis approaching the outer borders of two-digit land, so there's no hope for my brain to remember registers for all of these. [...]Paradox 2.0 Released: Execution hook, Interface improvements, Async Execution
16 Feb 2015 CommentI've just released Paradox version 2.0. If you've been following the blog, you already know this features the ability to do background upgrades. Below is a list of other features. [...]
New in Emacs 25.1: comment-line
11 Feb 2015 CommentAfter the previous post, I got in touch with the nice fellas at emacs-devel about including comment-line in Emacs. Understandably, there was a wee bit of concern with using up one of the oh-so-important C- binds, so it's been put under C-x C-; for now. [...]
View the Change-Log for packages before upgrading, with Paradox
08 Feb 2015 CommentParadox has had this feature for a while, but I've never blogged about it. When you're in the Packages Menu, and you're about to upgrade your packages with the always reliable U x, do you ever wonder what's actually changed in them? When I do it, there's usually something between 5 and 20 of them just waiting for me to answer y, but rarely do I see any actual difference in the new versions. [...]
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