A new blog dedicated to Emacs

by bozhidar • 13 years ago

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rustc• 13 years ago

Thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for! Short useful snippets which demonstrate extending Emacs with Emacs Lisp.

Bootvis• 13 years ago

Already learned a few new things, added to my reader. Thank you!

adefa• 13 years ago

Emacs Rocks is pretty sweet too: http://emacsrocks.com/

sambe• 13 years ago

and http://www.masteringemacs.org/

shadowfox• 13 years ago

and http://emacs-fu.blogspot.ru/

bobajett• 13 years ago

Very cool! This makes working with HTML such a breeze: http://emacsrocks.com/e12.html

"do I file an issue with the emacs developers hoping it is voted on enough to make into the next version? Hell no! This is emacs. I fix it myself!"

arocks• 13 years ago

This is how Emacs is different from other editors. Like the blog posts show - you start with a need and try to find how the existing Emacs LISP code is written. Next, you try to customize it to your need. Finally, you assign it to a keyboard shortcut.

You adapt Emacs to your workflow, just like you adapt Lisp to your problem domain.

kami88452• 13 years ago

Seems similar to Sublime Text 2.

Except for the part where you're stuck trying to decipher existing Emacs Lisp. With Python I find I can express what I'm trying to do without too much thought.

jlongster2• 13 years ago

Regarding sublime's API, can you split windows? Invoke subprocesses, and create REPLs?

Genuinely curious, but I think you can do a lot more with Emacs' APIs, and modify core parts of the editor since most of it is written in ELisp and you can easily swap out functions.

Cacti• 13 years ago

ST2's plugin interface and Emacs's interpreter are about a similar as Excel is to R, or an Accord is to an F1 car.

ST2's plugin interface may be nice and sufficient for most "normal" tasks, but there plenty of things you simply cannot do.

stray• 13 years ago

If you took the time to learn elisp, you'd experience the same ease with emacs.

You didn't always know python.

You learned it.

I own and use Sublime Text 2 -- and I do enjoy it. I also use and enjoy emacs.

Sublime Text 2 is far prettier...

ldh• 13 years ago

Never try to use anything you're not already familiar with, got it.

ww5202• 13 years ago

No need to decipher elisp. It's pretty simple and straight forward. Being able to express something is not unique to Python. Any language would do.

acomjean• 13 years ago

One of the things about emacs is its on almost every machine you can find accessible by terminal. Except when its not, which is why I know enough vi commands to do really simple things. (vi seems to be on every *nix machine without fail).

I'll fully admit that the configuration and lisp scripts are confusing in emacs. Its almost too configurable. But they are amazingly powerful. Plus emacs has the indispensable (M-x tetris)...

I've looked at Sublime, its a beautiful editor though. It seems to have some good tricks up its sleave as well

tangue• 13 years ago

For small plugins yes, it's on par with Emacs, but I've yet to see something like org-mode or tramp in Sublime Text, and it's not open, closed-souce text editor don't last long.

shenedu• 13 years ago

Quite helpful posts. Try to keep track of them using a RSS reader[1]

[1] http://rssminer.net/a#read/281377?p=1&s=newest

justinhj• 13 years ago

Nice. I have a similar blog http://justinsboringpage.blogspot.ca

jcurbo• 13 years ago

Many excellent links posted in this thread, thanks to everyone. I also find /r/emacs on reddit interesting.

rjammala• 13 years ago

Thanks for creating this blog.

jaequery• 13 years ago

with so many emacs users having their own unique setups, a site dedicated to just emacs setups would be great too

jlarocco• 13 years ago

It's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure how useful it'd be.

The reason Emacs users have their own unique setups is because they tailor the environment to their specific uses and preferences. That's going to be different for everybody.

Posting the entire configuration would add a lot of code that most people just wouldn't be interested in. It's easier to call out the interesting parts.

ww5202• 13 years ago

Here are some dot file sites.

http://dotfiles.org/.emacs

http://emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryDotEmacs

http://www.dotemacs.de/

paddy_m• 13 years ago

I love emacs, I really do. It is really hard to share customizations with git for emacs in my experience. Right now I'm using prelude + some customizations. I can keep my fork of the prelude repo on my account, and add stuff to /personal . But other than cherry-picks, which would probably get difficult, I really don't know how to contribute back to prelude. pulling the latest version of prelude (or any other preset emacs customization set) requires me to restart emacs, which I normally only do once every other week or so. How do others handle this?

elarkin• 13 years ago

I have two macs that both run emacs. I have a private git repository for my .emacs.d folder (an old mirror can be found here: https://github.com/elarkin/.emacs.d ). I have taken special care to make sure that the init.el file is readable, and can be used with a fresh copy of emacs (without any packages installed) and everything works just fine.

If you want to try it, just brew install emacs --cocoa and clone the repo to ~/.emacs.d

A coworker and I trade snippets of elisp for our configurations over email, and whenever I update the repo on one machine, the other needs to pull it down and evaluate the file (eval-buffer)

I have not found sharing customizations of emacs to be very difficult, but I also don't use any god packages like emacs starter-kit, or prelude (which I haven't heard of). I have let my configuration grow organically.

zaphar2• 13 years ago

My emacs automatically downloads and installs all my used packages on first startup on a fresh install. Literally all I have to do on a new box is clone my dotfiles and start emacs.

caycep• 13 years ago

emacs makes my vim brain hurt. kind of like dwarf fortress.

ycy• 13 years ago

I never stop discovering features in emacs, for example I found out about embedded calc mode yesterday. I was so impressed by it that I made a screencast demoing its features: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPMgj3XWi8Q

A new blog dedicated to Emacs

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