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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- emacs
- mode
- better
- lisp
- package
- buffer
- directory
- cider
- packages
- file
- github
- auto
All posts (153)
Install JDEE! Ok, maybe that’s an overstatement. JDEE is far from simple, and it hasn’t been able to keep up very well since Java 1.4. However, thanks to Stephen Leake & folks, that might be starting to change. JDEE is now on Github, and it could definitely use your help. Stephen has already been updating the code...
Over the last couple of weeks I had a few more days to work on the Cider debugger, and it’s getting a slew of improvements on the next release (0.10.0). This starts with a complete rewrite, so it now supports almost everything, and ends with some small features and UI improvements. Without further delay, here’s a...
Normally, org-mode ignores your attempts to markup text that starts with " or '. That’s probably a safe measure because "~/" is a very common string to write but ~ is one of Org’s markup elements. Fixing that is a simple matter, but it takes a bit of digging around. We just need to remove those two characters from...
Org is one of those packages that you can use for a lifetime and still not know all of its features. One of the first things you learn is how to use the #+STARTUP header to define the initial visibility of headlines when you first open an org-mode file. But did you know you can also use that on a per headline basis?...
When this blog was conceived, I decided that I wanted it to be entirely contained in a single org file, and that this would also be my Emacs init file. On the blog’s very first post I explained how to implement the latter, an init file that also serves other purposes. Today, Endless Parentheses turns 1 year old, and...
I don’t usually dedicate an entire post to something I’ve already done in a previous one, but this nugget is so useful it deserves the attention. Remember how you can create Github PRs straight from Magit? Magit 2.1.0 is barely two weeks away, and it brings so many (awesome) changes that our little snippet is going...
Having to confirm-before-save buffers every time you call compile is nearly as outrageous as having no key bound to compile in the first place. This snippet takes care of both and, as a bonus, makes the compilation window follow a predetermined size and ensures that point will follow the output. ;; This gives a...
This is the feature I’ve been wanting to show off the most. Anyone who’s configured Emacs to use more than one package archive knows this problem. The package menu displays countless redundant entries, as it must list a package once for each archive that offers it. Even worse, if you install a package from one...
For several reasons, the Package Menu’s f key has always flown a bit under the radar for me. Though the package-menu-filter command is great in principle, in practice its usefulness falls a little short for several reasons. One reason, which is in no way its own fault, is that Emacs already has great searching...
It was six months ago, to the day, when I alluded to the fact that Emacs’ package menu needed to go async. The time it took to do a simple list-packages bothered me the most, closely followed by having to go play Minesweeper every time I did a package upgrade. The latter was partially addressed when I added...
In Thurday's post on dependency management, I briefly mentioned that package.el now keeps track of which packages the user explicitly requested, and which were pulled in as dependencies. But there’s a bit more to this feature, so it deserves some time in the spolight. Simply put, there is now a new custom variable...
Package.el has gotten a series of improvements after the release of 24.4. Since I’ve found that people like to read about upcoming features, I’m starting a new series exclusively about our favorite package manager. Today, we talk dependencies. Package.el’s dependency management has always been just enough to do the...
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