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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All posts (153)
show-paren-mode is a minor-mode that highlights the bracket at point (be it round, square, or curly) as well as its corresponding open/close counterpart. I find it a must-have for Elisp and Clojure programming. On the other hand, when editing Ruby code, it also highlights whole block delimiters, like def, do, if,...
Emacs’ customizable variables (a.k.a., defcustom) are allowed to specify a :type parameter for setting its custom-type. The customize interface uses this information to produce a sophisticated menu for the user to customize that variable. However, a large fraction of users use setq to directly edit custom variables,...
As laptop touchpads seem to be steadily increasing in size, one unfortunate consequence is that it becomes increasingly harder to avoid touching them by accident while you type. Most systems have safeguards in place that disable the touchpad as you’re typing, but they always seem to fall short for me when it comes...
Countless build tools and shell scripts use ANSI escape codes to colorize their output. This provides impressive improvements to readability when running from a terminal that supports them, but tends to cause a catastrophic mess anywhere else. Emacs’ compilation buffer is one such place. It doesn’t support ANSI...
Are you a Chromebook user or thinking of becoming one? Are you a die-hard Emacser who needs to see it run even in your browser for no good reason (no judgement)? Either way, Emacs has you covered. Thanks to the efforts of Pete Williamson (and friends), there is now an Emacs port for Chromebook and Chrome. If that...
Admittedly, I’m a very late passenger in this boat — only after 4 years of using Emacs did I decide to try a project manager. Nowadays I can’t even remember my daily workflow without Projectile. This package mostly stays out of your way, and provides a series of useful commands for dealing with a project (which are...
As Android phones rise in power, bluetooth keyboards become cheaper, and your addiction to Emacs grows, it’s only natural that you start thinking of combining the three. Fortunately for you, it’s not as hard as it used to be. In fact, it’s perfectly possible to reproduce (most of) your desktop config, if you know...
One of the things I like most in CIDER is how evaluation results are displayed by inline overlays. And yet, for some reason, it’s taken me almost a year to transfer that to Elisp. It’s the tiniest of changes — you’re just taking something that would be displayed in the minibuffer and moving it up a dozen or so lines...
Have you ever stopped to think about why isearch leaves point at the end of the match? It does make some intuitive sense to leave you after the characters you have just typed, but that doesn’t make it the most practical behaviour. This is something I’d never even given half a thought in the past, but it’s one of the...
I’ve said before that clj-refactor is a magical package, and you wouldn’t catch me bad-mouthing it in a million release cycles, but it’s impossible to please everybody. One consistent annoyance I have with it, is that I always have to type Tab twice after invoking cljr-add-require-to-ns. That’s because I only ever...
CIDER 0.11.0 has been out for less than week and already the snapshots are getting new features. This one comes from a gentleman called Chris Perkins. It provides an easy way to automatically skip some breakpoints during evaluation, and it even comes with 300 brand new lines of tests. The feature is very...
As you may remember, one of the commands I like the most from the clj-refactor package are the ones that thread and unwind Clojure code forms for you. Now that Emacs is also getting built-in threading macros, I figured the best way to give them a fair chance in life is to also make them pretty convenient to use. The...
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