Tag Archives: Emacs

For my friends learning Emacs, some guides for starting fast

Posted on May 19, 2013 by Karl

Sacha Chua: “How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners” David Röthlisberger: “How to learn Emacs” “Emacs Rocks!” “The Mastering Emacs Reading Guide”

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How to learn emacs

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Karl

David Röthlisberger put together a fantastic guide on how to get started with Emacs that I’m going to point people to from now on. If you use OS X, want fullscreen, and are extra brave, replace his brew command with: … Continue reading →

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Setup Emacs for Clojure on Mac OS

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Karl

Nick at Unschooled has a quick post on getting a Clojure environment up and going fast that I just walked through without a problem: “How to setup Emacs for Clojure on Mac OS X Lion”.

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Emacs in iTerm2 key binding hints

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Karl

Cosmin Stejerean posted a few tips to bind Emacs keys when you are running from a terminal like iTerm2, which I have recently switched to.

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A nice guide to using iTerm2, tmux, emacs, irssi on the Mac

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Karl

Edouard Swiac posts a guide to “Hacking like a hacker on a Mac using iTerm2, tmux, emacs, irssi (and more).”. I’m using Solarized now in Emacs and Terminal and might come back to this to add a few more tweaks … Continue reading →

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Emacs links for September 25, 2010

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Karl

SaltyCrane Blog: “My Emacs Python environment” – good tips here. dot unplanned: “org-mode in your pocket is a gnu-shaped devil” mobileorg-android – I might want to dip my toes into this

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A new Java mode for Emacs

Posted on July 4, 2010 by Karl

I’m going to have to check this out: Malabar Mode.

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Making Emacs with emacs-starter-kit a little more friendly

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Karl

Hopefully you’ve read the docs and know that you can override settings and implement your own extensions rather easily: Create a Lisp file under ~/.emacs.d/ specific to your username ($USER-NAME.el) or system ($SYSTEM-NAME.el) that Emacs with emacs-starter-kit will load automatically … Continue reading →

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I’ve started to use Technomancy’s emacs-starter-kit

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Karl

It has some decent defaults (I needed just a few overrides), and it has a layout that makes it easy to extend. You can get a copy from Github here.

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Programing Links March 7th, 2009

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Karl

Mike Taylor on Kernighan and Plauger’s “The Elements of Programming Style” (gotta buy and read this) Eli Bendersky: “The server-side Javascript meme” PragPub–March 2010: Jason Huggins: “JavaScript: It’s Not Just for Browsers Any More” “Algorithms are Thoughts, Chainsaws are Tools”, … Continue reading →

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