Endless Parentheses
Artur Malabarba
Endless Parentheses is a blog. Originally, it exclusively featured posts about Emacs, mostly focused on improving your productivity and making Emacs life easier in general. Now, however, it has mutated into a blog about productivity in general. Emacs still permeates my life (and will still show up here a lot), but I feel I have more to talk about in other subjects and won’t be restricting myself to Emacs anymore.
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This is one of those small functionalities that makes your life considerably easier, and yet a surprising number of people don’t know about it. When Emacs prompts you for something in the minibuffer, you might be aware that you can navigate back and forth in the prompt’s history with M-p and M-n, but did you know...
This weekend I found myself doing some heavy-weight refactoring in CIDER. This is the kind of situation where Flycheck helps a lot, but I still needed it to do a bit more. Every time I made a significant change to a file, I had to visit 3 or 5 other files and trigger Flycheck on each one of them. It wasn’t long...
If you’ve taken the time to browse some Elisp source files, you’ve no doubt run into that odd little ^L, a.k.a. the form feed character. Emacs uses these white space characters as page delimiters. This makes for a very convenient way to split a file into sections, and quickly navigate between them. I won’t go too...
Every computer user, to some extend, is a user of Open Source Software (even if most of them are oblivious to that). This is only possible because the developers of these pieces of software have donated their time to us, who are nothing short of complete strangers to them. These are regular people, with just as much...
Nameless is an Emacs package for hiding namespace prefixes in elisp code. It is a short and simple minor-mode that changes the display, without changing the contents of the buffer. Using it is as simple as turning it on, there’s no need to change your package in any way. Nine months ago I introduced Names, a package...
As you grow accustomed to fine-tuning your Emacs experience, it’s not unusual to start using local variables in your files. These are specified as comment lines at the end of the file, and are extremely practical in a number of scenarios. Here’s a very simple org file. * Some headline Ramblings no one cares about. *...
If you’ve every tried to do some spell-checking in org-mode you know how finicky that can be. Ispell is happy to check absolutely anything, even code blocks and property drawers! When you’re blogging about code-snippets from an org file this annoyance quickly turns into irritation. Here’s how you fix it. (defun...
Commenting is a very frequent piece of a programmer’s workflow, and it’s important to make it seamless and simple. For the more statemental languages, that’s as easy as writing a custom comment-line command. However, when you’re writing in Lisp languages, that just won’t do. Trying to comment out lines in a...
Link handling and exporting is one of the most versatile aspects of org-mode. Did you know you can make org-mode understand Markdown style link IDs? You should already know org-links can do absolutely anything, but it takes a little creativity to know how to apply that. Here's the question by Kaushal that prompted...
Transposing is another of those features that I really miss when not in Emacs. It took me several months of actively reminding myself in order to finally incorporate it into my regular arsenal. Now, not a day goes by that I don’t transpose a few lines, and usually some words and sexps as well, but the usefulness of...
If you’re a frequent reader, no doubt you noticed an embedded Youtube video on a post a couple of weeks ago. Youtube makes it pretty simple to embed videos, they give you the entire iframe HTML code to use, but this wouldn’t really be Emacs if we couldn’t make things just a little bit easier. Just add the snippet...
This is something that’s bothered me for a very long time. My pinky is slow when it comes to releasing the Shift key, and frequently leads to typos. MOst typos (hitting letters in the wrong order) are already covered by auto-correction, but there’s another common typo that it doesn’t fix. EVery now and then, I’ll...
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