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
This tip comes from colleague of mine. Ben has a mailing group at work where he sends weekly Emacs tips. They’re always short and useful, but today’s tip was quite the gem for me. Emacs has a comment-box command. I’m sure half the...
“With great power comes great responsibility,” and Emacs is a prime example of that. The versatility of having an editor that’s a lisp interpreter is truly empowering, but it can also backfire on you in the most unexpected ways. If...
I’ve never been too pleased with the default behaviour of Backspace during isearch. If the last key you hit was C-s, then it does the same as C-r (albeit with less repetition), and if your match failed several characters ago, you need to...
SX.el, the awesome Emacs client for the StackExchange network, has been stable and happy for many months now, and it’s about time I mentioned it here. We have put considerable effort into making the interface intuitive, teaching you how...
Cluttered as our keyboards are with key-binds, it's always nice when we can combine two disjoint functionalities in the same key. I have M-k and C-M-k bound to killing the next and previous sexp, respectively, but that is never something...
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working on a Clojure debugger for Cider that is strongly inspired by Edebug. Stepping trough code of any form and injecting values into running code are the features available in this first...
Thanks to Nicolas Petton, Emacs is getting a new built-in sequence library in 25.1, and it’s already available on GNU Elpa for everyone. There’s not much to be said about this besides the obvious “it’s about time”. The popularity of...
In contrast with fetching pull requests, which either requires a minor-mode or some long-named branches, creating pull requests is as easy as a one-key deal. *If you’re reading this now, note that this code was written for an older Magit...
Did you know you can fetch Github pull requests with git by adding a remote.origin.fetch configuration? That insightful tip is a courtesy of Oleh at (or emacs, a very active blog that has a habit of unbalancing parentheses wherever it...
After adding asynchronous operations to Paradox, I saw the need to provide some visual feedback to the user. In the simplest sense, this could be a fixed message on the mode-line, such as “Upgrading…” or “Working”, but this is not...
Now that you’ve started your journey on the Typography Express by using round double quotes, take a seat and extend that to your apostrophes as well. This snippet binds a round apostrophe to the ' key, but also inserts a pair of single...
Almost every directory I work with, is either directly under “~/Dropbox/” or under “~/Dropbox/Work/”. However, I never actually visit these two directories, only the directories inside them. The number of possible targets for find-file...
I've just released Paradox version 2.0. If you've been following the blog, you already know this features the ability to do background upgrades. Below is a list of other features. However, I'd first like to say this release requires an...
After the previous post, I got in touch with the nice fellas at emacs-devel about including comment-line in Emacs. Understandably, there was a wee bit of concern with using up one of the oh-so-important C- binds, so it's been put under...
Paradox has had this feature for a while, but I've never blogged about it. When you're in the Packages Menu, and you're about to upgrade your packages with the always reliable U x, do you ever wonder what's actually changed in them? When...