Tag Archives: Emacs

Some of my Emacs defaults (in .emacs)

Posted on September 27, 2009 by Karl

(defvar my-dir-root (expand-file-name “~/elisp”)) (set-default-font “-apple-consolas-medium-r-normal–13-0-72-72-m-0-iso10646-1″) ; appending to the elisp load path for our stuff (setq load-path (cons my-dir-root load-path)) ; stop that splash screen (setq inhibit-splash-screen t) ; set the fill column (setq-default fill-column 79) ; set the … Continue reading →

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Emacs links for September 19th, 2009

Posted on September 19, 2009 by Karl

Chmouel Blog: Emacs transparency with mouse wheel – works great. worg: Org-babel (wow I gotta experiment with this)

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Emacs weblogger.el

Posted on September 12, 2009 by Karl

weblogger.el.

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Reading about Graphviz

Posted on June 21, 2009 by Karl

While gearing up on a content management project, a few developers were wrangling with how to share solution diagrams between Visio and OmniGraffle. While there is a level of compatibility between the two, its not ideal. While researching, I went … Continue reading →

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Getting Lisp

Posted on June 13, 2009 by Karl

At work props go to Michael Bevilacqua-Linn and his great brown bag on Clojure. I think it helped a few of us not only get exposed to Clojure, but Lisp as well. Here are some great starting points for the … Continue reading →

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Very quick start with Scala on OS X

Posted on June 8, 2009 by Karl

1. Download and extract directory 2. Move scala install directory under to /usr/local/. 3. Add SCALA_HOME variable to your .bashrc export SCALA_HOME=/usr/local/[SCALA INSTALL DIRECTORY] 4. Add $SCALA_HOME/bin to your path in .bashrc, example: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$SCALA_HOME/bin 5. Get Emacs set up, … Continue reading →

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Some Emacs org-mode screencasts and links

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Karl

Carsten Dominik (the originator of org-mode): Google TechTalk at YouTube Scott Jaderholm: Screencast Worg: David O’Toole Org tutorial Charles Cave: Orgnode – reading org-mode in Python (nice start here for Python hackers)

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Emacs links for Sunday March 15th, 2008

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Karl

I used Emacs org-mode to compose my first college report. These first two links delve into some of the techniques I used. Marios Braindump: Using Emacs Org-mode to Draft Papers emacs-orgmode: [Orgmode] Example of thesis in org-mode and LaTeX Xah’s … Continue reading →

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Emacs links for today

Posted on March 8, 2009 by Karl

Emacs Screencast (Ruby developer shows why he likes Emacs) Xah’s Emacs Lisp Tutorial – I’m following this myself. Some great bits in there for the Lisp/Emacs newbie. Publiushing Org-mode files to HTML – nice setup to publish a directory of … Continue reading →

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Nice tutorial on writing an Emacs Lisp function

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Karl

Steve Yegge: My Save Excursion

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