Emacs
El-Get is now Rolling Releases
The code of El-Get has been pretty stable for a long time now. About the whole set of patches against the 4.x series has been about bug fixing corner cases (sometimes …
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Emacs
Marking whole word
I’ve discovered recently another Emacs facility that I since then use several times a day, and I wonder how I did without it before: C-M-SPC runs the command …
Emacs
About Vimgolf
Following some tweet I found myself desultory watching an episode of the awesome VimGolf in Emacs video series by Tim Visher. Those series are about picking some …
Emacs
Editing SQL
It’s hard to read my blog yet not know I’m using Emacs. It really is a great tool and has a lot to compare to PostgreSQL in terms of extensibility, …
Emacs
El-Get 4.1 is out
Please welcome the new stable version of El-Get, the much awaited version 4.1 has now been branched for your pleasure. It’s packed with lots of features to make …
Emacs
M-x recompile
A friend of mine just asked me for advice to tweak some Emacs features, and I think that’s really typical of using Emacs: rather than getting used to the way things …
Emacs
el-get-3.1
The el-get project releases its new stable version, 3.1. This new release fixes bugs, add a host of new recipes (we have 420 of them and counting) and some nice new …
Emacs
el-get-list-packages
From the first days of el-get is was quite clear for me that we would reach a point where users would want a nice listing including descriptions of the packages, and a …
Emacs
Emacs Startup
Using Emacs we get to manage a larger and larger setup file (either ~/.emacs or ~/.emacs.d/init.el), sometime with lots of dependencies, and some sub-files thanks to the …
Emacs
Emacs ANSI colors
Emacs comes with a pretty good implementation of a terminal emulator, M-x term. Well not that good actually, but given what I use it for, it’s just what I need. …
Emacs
Emacs Cheat Sheet
I stumbled upon the following cheat sheet for Emacs yesterday, and it’s worth sharing. I already learnt or discovered again some nice default chords, like for …
Emacs
Don't be afraid of 'cl
In this blog article, you’re shown a quite long function that loop through your buffers to find out if any of them is associated with a file whose full name …