Endless Parentheses
Artur Malabarba
Endless Parentheses is a blog. Originally, it exclusively featured posts about Emacs, mostly focused on improving your productivity and making Emacs life easier in general. Now, however, it has mutated into a blog about productivity in general. Emacs still permeates my life (and will still show up here a lot), but I feel I have more to talk about in other subjects and won’t be restricting myself to Emacs anymore.
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- mode
- better
- lisp
- package
- buffer
- directory
- cider
- packages
- file
All posts (153)
Software tests are great! I’m fortunate enough to have only worked with code-bases with reasonable-to-excellent test coverage, and I wouldn’t want to work in a world without tests. In fact, a thoroughly tested system is nothing short of liberating. That said, tests are not free. I’m not talking about CI time, that...
Although fine-tuning your slack notifications is already reason enough to run slack in Emacs, that’s only the beginning. Once everything is up and running you get to decide what you want out of your slack. Some of the snippets below simply make up for missing functionality, other customize the package beyond what...
Keeping a REPL (or a console) always by your side is never a bad habit, and if you use an IDE-package (like Robe for Ruby, or Cider for Clojure) it’s nigh unavoidable. Being an essential part of your environment, it would be ridiculous not to invest some time optimizing it. One obvious optimization is to bind a key...
There’s nothing I can praise about Magit that hasn’t been written in a dozen blogs already, but since Jonas started a kickstarter campaign for it I knew I had to say something. If you use Magit, you already know the greatness of it. And if you don’t, hopefully I can convince you to try it in time to back the...
There’s no denying slack is a useful tool for intrateam communication, but it’s also a powerful source of distractions. Though I can’t just turn it off all day, I can certainly keep the spam in check. Slack’s Webapp does allow you to partially mute certain channels, but that’s about as far as it goes. On the other...
Four Saturdays ago, on September 17, Emacs 25 was finally released. Almost two years before that, I wrote a post predicting a few Big things to expect from Emacs 25. Throughout the months since then, I’ve also been reporting interesting new features as they arrived on the dev builds. Today, we compile a list of all...
One of the questions we get most often about CIDER is “can I configure X on a per-project basis?”. Occasionally, you find someone suggesting (or even implementing) some sophisticated configurable variable trying to account for multiple simultaneous use-cases. Fortunately that’s one effort we don’t need to make....
Once you learn paredit, you really can’t go back. Even when you’re not editing lisp you crave for the ease of manipulating everything as balanced sexps. Although that’s (sadly) not always possible, you can still hack your way into a bit of guilty paren-pleasure in pretty much any editing session. While not all...
After last week's post, Clément Pit-Claudel informed us of an alternative method for providing input to compilations. I have no idea how I’d never learned about that before, but I figure that other people might be in the same situation so it’s worth a post. Have a look at the Update at the end of the post. I’ve also...
The Emacs compile command is a severely underused tool. It allows you to run any build tool under the sun and provides error-highlighting and jump-to-error functionality for dozens of programming languages, but many an Emacser is still in the habit of switching to a terminal in order to run make, lein test, or...
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