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Advent of emacs #24: How I approach emacs

He’s the one, who likes all our pretty songs. And he likes to sing along. And he likes to shoot his gun. But he knows not what it means, knows not what it means

Advent of emacs #23: How I do many things with C-q in emacs

On day 2, I talked about command discoverability and the pointlessness of memorizing key combinations. I also talked a bit about global-set-key on day 2 and keymaps on day7. This is an additional point to the topic.

Advent of emacs #22: How I do ebook reading in emacs

Welcome to another episode of “A Poseur Wandering the emacs lisp World”, I am your host, chainsawriot. Today I will give another example of programming using emacs lisp to extend emacs.

Advent of emacs #21: How I do emacs command creation in emacs

There are some mythical figures in the folklore of emacs and their names are BSG’s office secretaries. Bernard Greenberg (a.k.a. BSG), the inventor of Multics Emacs, was an employee of Honeywell and probably those mythical figures were employees o...

Advent of emacs #20: How I do context separation in emacs

Today is a little break, like I did on day 10.

Advent of emacs #19: How I do "note taking" in emacs

In these final five posts, I will talk about my attitude towards emacs. But before talking about today’s topic, I also need to stress that I am a mediocre person at best. I am not a successful researcher in my field. The content of this webpage is...

Advent of emacs #18: How I do R package development in emacs

ESS is great. ESS’s integration with the R package devtools makes it a greater tool. By default, the integration isn’t activated. One needs to explicitly activate ess-r-package.

Advent of emacs #17: How I do R programming in emacs

Today and tomorrow I will talk how I write R code. This is too big a topic. But before that, I want to talk a bit about hooks.

Advent of emacs #16: How I use the online LaTeX editor Overleaf in emacs

If I could select, I won’t select \(\LaTeX\) to write my papers. Usually, the decisions to write in \(\LaTeX\) were not made by me, but my collaborators. I maintain that \(\LaTeX\) should be an intermediate format. A target to be compiled to. But ...

Advent of emacs #15: How I do citation in emacs

Now I have my \(\mathrm{B{\scriptstyle{IB}} \! T\!_{\displaystyle E} \! X}\) file (day 13) and a markdown writing mode (day 14). Now I need to be scholar and cite all the papers by the big shots in my field. How do I actually cite references in a ...

Advent of emacs #14: How I do academic writing in emacs

Manuscript writing is really the thing that I (should) do to bring bread and butter on the table. An end. Programming is just a means to an end. I again promise you that I will talk about this topic (means vs end) in detail in a later post in this...

Advent of emacs #13: How I do bibliography management in emacs

I wrote about bibliography management in the past. I will keep this post simple.

Advent of emacs #12: How I do version control in emacs

I can’t believe I am now in the mid-point. I thought I would tap out on maybe day 3.

Advent of emacs #11: How I do system administration in emacs

I have talked about some basics about emacs in the last 10 days. From now on, I will be focus more on the specific usage of emacs. On around day 19, I will start to talk about my attitude towards emacs 1. I am not prot the philosop...

Advent of emacs #10: How I do theming in emacs

As I said yesterday, this is a break for me. I just want to quickly show you what theme I am using and also the technique to quickly to switch to another theme.

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