Posts tagged Emacs
Searching the load-path
- 06 February 2017
Here’s another tip for taming your Emacs config. In particular, how to search
the huge body of elisp that is present with most Emacs installs - the
load-path. While the load-path is a very important collection of
directories, searching it isn’t as easy and accessible as it should be. As
usual, Emacs compensates with plugins:
Spacemacs Useful Buffers Gotcha
- 14 January 2017
I’ve ran into a little spacemacs annoyance that took me a while to resolve, and it seems like it could pop up under a variety of different contexts. I figured that a few words about it here might save others some time.
Pretty Printing a Table in Emacs
- 23 December 2016
Recently, I needed to output some relatively small tabular data in Emacs and
message was starting to be a bit long in the tooth. Finally, I’ve decided to
try my hand at upgrading the visuals for myself. I realize that there’s probably
dozens of different ways of pretty-printing tables in Emacs, but I was already
partial to the tabular output used by functions such as list-processes and
plugins such as prodigy (Using org
mode’s tables also comes to mind for example). So I’ve decided to recreate this
experience for my own tables. The result has been convenient and aesthetically
pleasing enough to share.