The emacs.stackexchange beta has only just started and interesting
topics have already begun to pop up. Partially to share snippets I
find nifty, and partially to help promote the beta, I’ll be posting
here questions and answers I find engaging.
[...]
If you read r/emacs or follow some Emacs bloggers on twitter, you’ll
have noticed a proposal for an Emacs stack exchange site was launched
a couple of weeks ago. The commitment rate of the proposal was nearly
record-breaking, and now it has entered private beta.
[...]
For reasons which ellude me, the org-in-src-block-p function is
disappointingly inconsistent for me. Given its major role in
narrow-or-widen-dwim, this frequently led to org-edit-src-code not
getting called when point was inside a code block.
[...]
I keep a couple of subdirectories inside my “.emacs.d/” for the
purpose of organization, so rgrep'ing is tremendously useful for
finding where a variable is being changed. By default, that will also
search inside “elpa”/, which slows the search and pollutes the
results page.
[...]
Typography is a long and blurry road, of which I know very little.
There are, still, some simple lessons that take you a long a way.
Round (Unicode) quotation marks is one of them.
[...]
Following on our series of mnemonic keymaps, we arrive on the
launcher-map. Where the toggle-map was designed for toggling values
and minor-modes we only use every once in a while, the launcher-map
runs those standalone features of Emacs that also don't always see the
light of day.
[...]
On today's episode, we again find ourselves admiring the cl package
and focus on a very little-known feature of Emacs, psetq. Short for
“parallel-setq”, it takes the same syntax as setq, but saves all
values before assigning.
[...]
While the official elisp reference does contain some style tips, it's
hard to deny that the community needed a more comprehensive and (at
the same time) concise style guide. Mostly, new Emacs developers have
been left to learn the ropes by reading other source files. As practical
as that might be, it's dangerous in its propensity to propagate bad
habits.
[...]
Once you've come to terms with power of setf, it is time to meet its
older sister, cl-letf. As the name implies, letf is to setf like
let is to setq, but, once again, that is only the tip of the
iceberg.
[...]
One little-know feature of org-mode is that you can define new types
of links with the aptly named org-add-link-type. The applications of
this virtue are many. One might, for instance, write links which
search an entire code base for an expression.
[...]
Updating org-mode #+INCLUDE: statements on the fly
26 Sep 2014 CommentToday’s post regards my answer to kaushalmodi's question. Since the beta is still private, you might not be able to follow those links quite yet, so I’ll summ it up here. [...]
Auto-focus a Relevant File in Dired Buffers
25 Sep 2014 CommentThe emacs.stackexchange beta has only just started and interesting topics have already begun to pop up. Partially to share snippets I find nifty, and partially to help promote the beta, I’ll be posting here questions and answers I find engaging. [...]
Emacs Stack Exchange enters Beta
24 Sep 2014 CommentIf you read r/emacs or follow some Emacs bloggers on twitter, you’ll have noticed a proposal for an Emacs stack exchange site was launched a couple of weeks ago. The commitment rate of the proposal was nearly record-breaking, and now it has entered private beta. [...]
Fixing org-in-src-block-p
23 Sep 2014 CommentFor reasons which ellude me, the
org-in-src-block-pfunction is disappointingly inconsistent for me. Given its major role in narrow-or-widen-dwim, this frequently led toorg-edit-src-codenot getting called when point was inside a code block. [...]Exclude Directories from Grep
20 Sep 2014 CommentI keep a couple of subdirectories inside my “.emacs.d/” for the purpose of organization, so
rgrep'ing is tremendously useful for finding where a variable is being changed. By default, that will also search inside “elpa”/, which slows the search and pollutes the results page. [...]Prettify your Quotation Marks
18 Sep 2014 CommentTypography is a long and blurry road, of which I know very little. There are, still, some simple lessons that take you a long a way. Round (Unicode) quotation marks is one of them. [...]
Launcher Keymap for Standalone Features
13 Sep 2014 CommentFollowing on our series of mnemonic keymaps, we arrive on the launcher-map. Where the toggle-map was designed for toggling values and minor-modes we only use every once in a while, the launcher-map runs those standalone features of Emacs that also don't always see the light of day. [...]
Swaping Variables with cl-lib
07 Sep 2014 CommentOn today's episode, we again find ourselves admiring the
clpackage and focus on a very little-known feature of Emacs,psetq. Short for “parallel-setq”, it takes the same syntax assetq, but saves all values before assigning. [...]Quick update on narrow-or-widen-dwim
06 Sep 2014 CommentTo those who were interested in
narrow-or-widen-dwim, the code has been updated a couple of times since being posted. [...]Emacs Lisp Style Guide
05 Sep 2014 CommentWhile the official elisp reference does contain some style tips, it's hard to deny that the community needed a more comprehensive and (at the same time) concise style guide. Mostly, new Emacs developers have been left to learn the ropes by reading other source files. As practical as that might be, it's dangerous in its propensity to propagate bad habits. [...]
Understanding letf and how it replaces flet
31 Aug 2014 CommentOnce you've come to terms with power of
setf, it is time to meet its older sister,cl-letf. As the name implies,letfis tosetflikeletis tosetq, but, once again, that is only the tip of the iceberg. [...]The ins and outs of setf
24 Aug 2014 Commentsetfis a modest name for a macro that does much more work than it gets paid for. Quoting the doc page: [...]Meta Binds Part 3: Smart string insertion
17 Aug 2014 CommentHave you ever stopped to consider what is the string you type most often? [...]
An Update on gmail-message-mode for Firefox
12 Aug 2014 CommentTo those who were interested in gmail-message-mode. Thanks to patjak and oantolin, there is now a solution for using it in Firefox as well. See the original post for the instructions. [...]
Use Org-Mode Links for Absolutely Anything
10 Aug 2014 CommentOne little-know feature of org-mode is that you can define new types of links with the aptly named
org-add-link-type. The applications of this virtue are many. One might, for instance, write links which search an entire code base for an expression. [...]Content © 2019, All rights reserved. Icons under CC3.0.