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Running Emacs as a Server (Emacs Reboot #15)
Unlike more lightweight editors, it doesn’t really make sense to run a new instance of Emacs whenever editing a file. Emacs is at its best when managing many buffers, frames, and windows from a single master process. That way you … Continue reading
RVM.el and Inf-Ruby (Emacs Reboot #14)
With my Emacs config files better organized, it’s time now to turn my attention to improving my experience editing Ruby files. First of all, I want to be able to quickly and easily drop into an IRB session from the … Continue reading
Breaking up init.el (Emacs Reboot #13)
My brand-new init.el has been steadily growing. Before I go any further, it’s time to break it up into manageable pieces. I add some code to init.el which will load all elisp files in ~/.emacs24.d/init.d: (if (file-exists-p abg-init-dir) (dolist (file … Continue reading
Required Packages (Emacs Reboot #12)
I’m keeping this configuration synchronized between two machines. For most changes simply pushing the change to my Emacs Reboot GitHub repo and pulling it on the other machine is all I need. But when the customizations depend on a certain … Continue reading
Emacs Reboot #11: Line Numbers
Out of the box, Emacs shows me the current line number in the modeline, not the column number. And it doesn’t show any line numbers down the side of the page. Today I’m going to change that. First of all, … Continue reading
Emacs Reboot #10: Lorem Ipsum
Somtimes I just need some filler text. And it’s silly typing it out myself when I’m using a thermonuclear text editor. Via EmacsWiki, I discover lorem-ipsum.el. I toss it into my elisp folder and set up some autoloads so that … Continue reading
Emacs Reboot #9: Blogging
I really like all the features that WordPress gives me. But I hate writing blog posts inside of WordPress. I want to do all my writing inside Emacs! Ideally, I’d be able to write my posts in Org-Mode, and publish … Continue reading
Emacs Reboot #7: Ido
In which I enable ido-mode for fast buffer and file switching.
Emacs Reboot #8: Gists
Lately I’ve been using Github’s “Gist” service to post code snippets to this blog, so it would be really handy if I could quickly post new snippets from Emacs. There is a project by Chris Wanstrath called gist.el, but it’s … Continue reading
Emacs Reboot #2: Startup
After compilation completes it’s time to give the new Emacs a shot: $ src/emacs It starts up successfully, and makes a valiant attempt to load my existing Emacs configuration. I notice some warnings about missing Gtk3 modules in the output: … Continue reading
