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)
Proof-general is a powerful client for the Coq proof assistant, and Software Foundations is great interactive tutorial for the language. As I was following the tutorial, I felt the need to speed things up a little bit. Today’s post is just some configuration code I wrote for that effect. Parts of it might be useful...
If you’ve been following our journey of typography, you must now have pretty apostrophes all over your org documents. But if that’s the case, you probably also noticed a drawback. Ispell doesn’t like them very much. Now how are we supposed to use our amazing auto-correct? Don’t despair, dear reader, I have the...
It was a few years ago that I learned about ace-jump-mode in one of Magnar’s Emacs Rocks episodes. Over this time, slowly but surely, this one simple command has completely taken over my workflow. It was only last week that I realised how ingrained it is on my muscle memory. As I shared this thought on twitter,...
This tip comes from colleague of mine. Ben has a mailing group at work where he sends weekly Emacs tips. They’re always short and useful, but today’s tip was quite the gem for me. Emacs has a comment-box command. I’m sure half the readers know about this already, but I didn’t, so I thought I’d share with the second...
“With great power comes great responsibility,” and Emacs is a prime example of that. The versatility of having an editor that’s a lisp interpreter is truly empowering, but it can also backfire on you in the most unexpected ways. If you’ve ever ran into a foggy incompatibility issue between two unrelated packages,...
I’ve never been too pleased with the default behaviour of Backspace during isearch. If the last key you hit was C-s, then it does the same as C-r (albeit with less repetition), and if your match failed several characters ago, you need to hit it that many times to get back on track. Fortunately, asmeurer took the...
SX.el, the awesome Emacs client for the StackExchange network, has been stable and happy for many months now, and it’s about time I mentioned it here. We have put considerable effort into making the interface intuitive, teaching you how to use it without the need for explanations. In fact, it would probably be a...
Cluttered as our keyboards are with key-binds, it's always nice when we can combine two disjoint functionalities in the same key. I have M-k and C-M-k bound to killing the next and previous sexp, respectively, but that is never something I need inside a string or when typing a file name in the minibuffer. Then these...
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working on a Clojure debugger for Cider that is strongly inspired by Edebug. Stepping trough code of any form and injecting values into running code are the features available in this first release. This little project started shortly after I my first practical delve into...
Thanks to Nicolas Petton, Emacs is getting a new built-in sequence library in 25.1, and it’s already available on GNU Elpa for everyone. There’s not much to be said about this besides the obvious “it’s about time”. The popularity of dash.el speaks volumes about the need for this feature. Combined with the recent...
In contrast with fetching pull requests, which either requires a minor-mode or some long-named branches, creating pull requests is as easy as a one-key deal. *If you’re reading this now, note that this code was written for an older Magit version. An up-to-date version of the code (working with latest Magit) can be...
Did you know you can fetch Github pull requests with git by adding a remote.origin.fetch configuration? That insightful tip is a courtesy of Oleh at (or emacs, a very active blog that has a habit of unbalancing parentheses wherever it goes). I like the tip so much I wanted to add something to it. Instead of manually...
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