Category Archives: Development

Snippets with Emacs Lisp Power

By Gregory Grubbs | November 15, 2009

The YASnippet package for Emacs has some pretty awesome power for the developer, especially when you utilize the power of Emacs Lisp.

YASnippet was inspired by TextMate, which was inspired by Emacs, in a highly-out-of-equilibrium whirlwind of self-referential creativity.
The screencast above uses a set of snippets I originally took from this [...]

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FAST file access with Emacs and ido-mode

By Gregory Grubbs | November 14, 2009

One of the things that makes daily Emacs use so enjoyable is the availability of brilliant add-ons designed to make you work faster.
Emacs with ido-mode fuzzy matching (or flex matching) makes it incredibly quick to navigate the file system using only the keyboard. But it does far more than that, allowing the emacs [...]

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Get remote X Windows working in Ubuntu Karmic

By Gregory Grubbs | October 26, 2009

One thing that troubled me moving to Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala: my remote X applications stopped working with the error
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication

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Emacs Power: remote servers and shell commands

By Gregory Grubbs | October 2, 2009

Emacs file and directory browsing
Emacs has Dired, a great method for browsing directories; especially in combination with ido-mode, I prefer it to Windows Explorer, OS X Finder, Gnome Nautilus, or anything else I’ve used over the decades to browse file systems. You can quickly begin entering paths, and Dired helps you with directory and [...]

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