Endless Parentheses
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.
Latest Posts
Install JDEE! Ok, maybe that’s an overstatement. JDEE is far from simple, and it hasn’t been able to keep up very well since Java 1.4. However, thanks to Stephen Leake & folks, that might be starting to change. JDEE is now on Github, and...
Over the last couple of weeks I had a few more days to work on the Cider debugger, and it’s getting a slew of improvements on the next release (0.10.0). This starts with a complete rewrite, so it now supports almost everything, and ends...
Normally, org-mode ignores your attempts to markup text that starts with " or '. That’s probably a safe measure because "~/" is a very common string to write but ~ is one of Org’s markup elements. Fixing that is a simple matter, but it...
Org is one of those packages that you can use for a lifetime and still not know all of its features. One of the first things you learn is how to use the #+STARTUP header to define the initial visibility of headlines when you first open...
When this blog was conceived, I decided that I wanted it to be entirely contained in a single org file, and that this would also be my Emacs init file. On the blog’s very first post I explained how to implement the latter, an init file...
I don’t usually dedicate an entire post to something I’ve already done in a previous one, but this nugget is so useful it deserves the attention. Remember how you can create Github PRs straight from Magit? Magit 2.1.0 is barely two weeks...
Having to confirm-before-save buffers every time you call compile is nearly as outrageous as having no key bound to compile in the first place. This snippet takes care of both and, as a bonus, makes the compilation window follow a...
This is the feature I’ve been wanting to show off the most. Anyone who’s configured Emacs to use more than one package archive knows this problem. The package menu displays countless redundant entries, as it must list a package once for...
For several reasons, the Package Menu’s f key has always flown a bit under the radar for me. Though the package-menu-filter command is great in principle, in practice its usefulness falls a little short for several reasons. One reason,...
It was six months ago, to the day, when I alluded to the fact that Emacs’ package menu needed to go async. The time it took to do a simple list-packages bothered me the most, closely followed by having to go play Minesweeper every time I...
In Thurday's post on dependency management, I briefly mentioned that package.el now keeps track of which packages the user explicitly requested, and which were pulled in as dependencies. But there’s a bit more to this feature, so it...
Package.el has gotten a series of improvements after the release of 24.4. Since I’ve found that people like to read about upcoming features, I’m starting a new series exclusively about our favorite package manager. Today, we talk...
Proof-general is a powerful client for the Coq proof assistant, and Software Foundations is great interactive tutorial for the language. As I was following the tutorial, I felt the need to speed things up a little bit. Today’s post is...
If you’ve been following our journey of typography, you must now have pretty apostrophes all over your org documents. But if that’s the case, you probably also noticed a drawback. Ispell doesn’t like them very much. Now how are we...
It was a few years ago that I learned about ace-jump-mode in one of Magnar’s Emacs Rocks episodes. Over this time, slowly but surely, this one simple command has completely taken over my workflow. It was only last week that I realised...