Where Are The Wise Men?

I’ve recently discovered another wonderful thing about Emacs – Version Control

Let’s say you are working on a project that is under some version control system.  You are editing a file and you type “C-x v v”.  Then Emacs will do the next logical thing with that file.  If the file is not on version control, [...]

While Blaine starting to attend the Church of Emacs I’m sorta having a crisis of the faith. I’ve been working on a Rails project lately and have gotten re-acquainted with Textmate again. I remembered why I liked it so much — it’s project mode is perfect for the many, many files of Rails. [...]

And you thought I would make another one. Ha! Some are the same as the last one, but there are some new ones.

M-d -> kill up to the end of a word

M-t -> transpose

M-h -> mark paragraph

<f4> -> re-run last kbd-macro

M-u -> uppercase word

M-l -> lowercase word

M-c -> capitalize word

C-x C-u-> uppercase region

C-x [...]

Yep, it’s that time I put a bunch of random stuff together in one post. Deal with it.

Anyone else in Omaha sick of the snow besides Gina and I?  I can’t believe my backyard has been covered since December.
Leah had a severe cough all last week.  On [...]

One of my goals for 2008 is to work on my Emacs-fu, i.e. learn more of the nice abilities that Emacs has. I read a lot of Emacs-centric blogs and programming.reddit.com sometimes has some nice things. But how can I remember those nice things? And how can I get the nice items that [...]

So I got to thinking over a short break from work (and blogging) that I should re-evaluate my Emacs usage on OSX. Aquamacs’s latest is based on Emacs 22 and I’ve been doing more and more tweaks of Emacs at work to try to get it like my TextMate setup at home.  There are a few things that I [...]

It all started with this post from SJS on how to make Emacs get some TextMate behaviors.  I added my own changes to enter “)” after entering “(”.  Then SJS emailed me privately to say that Emacs has had this all along — you just had to enable it.And it works great, too.  Slicker than [...]

Let’s just say that my development environment it is a little messed up.

The Company has an ancient Cygwin version installed that is somewhat broken and not all the tools are there.  That said, it has bash and I can’t complain.  But I can’t install any other Cygwin packages on it, because I don’t have permissions [...]

I’ve been blogging about TextMate recently, but Emacs is still my editor of choice for my day job, and it more than adequately fits the bill.  I’m still not sure which I like better overall, but this post is about Emacs, not comparing it with TextMate. So I have been doing quite a bit with Emacs [...]

When I started doing Java development, I thought I was going to use Emacs less and less and Eclipse more and more.  But I was wrong — I find myself copying text out of Eclipse all the time to put into Emacs. In Emacs, I write a keyboard macro to wrangle the text into submission, [...]