• Perché Amo Emacs (di nuovo): Org Mode e Visual Line Mode

    calendar Aug 17, 2011 · 5 min read
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    Ho iniziato ad usare Emacs quando ero in università. Un volta un mio collega mi disse: “Non ho ancora capito se chi usa emacs è un genio o un folle”.(*) Dopo anni di utilizzo, ho dovuto servirmi spesso di Eclipse, ed Emacs è finito nel dimenticatoio. Ho anche provato a sostituirlo con JEdit e VIM, e mi sono sempre pentito. Intendiamoci, VIM è un ottimo editor, ma è forse più complicato di Emacs.

    Mi è sempre piaciuto scrivere, e quindi ho finito per servirmi di MS-Word 2010 per i miei racconti, e di Eclipse per sviluppare non solo in Java ma anche in Python, Ruby ecc… Ora ho scoperto che potrei fare tutto, ma veramente tutto questo con Emacs 23… ma andiamo con ordine.

    (*) Per i fanatici di VI, la mia battuta preferita è che “VI è stato creato da un pianista mancato” fatta da un mio collega di lavoro nel 2002…


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  • Vim sanitize better then Emacs?

    calendar Dec 5, 2010 · 2 min read
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    Vim sanitize better then Emacs?

    Disclaimer: Hi guys, I will not start a Religion wars between Emacs and Vim. For a copule of reason:

    • I have been an Emacs fan for about ten years, then I get a depression because of emacs-lisp complicated interface and slow emacs evolution
    • I have worked on pymacs a bit, so I am somewhat a Emacs contributor
    • I am still searching a good general purpose editor. On my day by day job, eclispe is my food.
    So I was accustomed to emacs from the University. Now I decided to give a try to vim, mostly because I need
    • a editor working on slow connection
    • a fast startup editor
    • some time to be masochistic. Some guys smoke, others use vim. It perfectlys fit in your auto-destruction instinct.
    In Software world changing editor is the same to change your religion  :)

    I was happy with vim for this reason:


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  • Dos to unix in emacs

    calendar Mar 23, 2010 · 1 min read
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    Dos to unix in emacs

    To convert an Emacs buffer from DOS line endings to Unix, type C-x [ENTER] f unix [ENTER].

  • Emacs 23 is out!

    calendar Jul 30, 2009 · 2 min read
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    "After only 2 years since the previous version, now emacs 23 .1 is available. It brings many new features, of which the support for anti-aliased fonts on X may be the most visible. Also, there is support for starting emacs in the background, so you can pop up new emacs windows in the blink of an eye. There are many other bigger and smaller improvements, including support for D-Bus, Xembed, and viewing PDFs inside emacs. And not to forget, M-x butterfly. You can get emacs 23 from ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ or one of its mirrors; alternatively, there are binary packages available, for example from Ubuntu PPA."
    via Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters.

    For the young readers, emacs is the oldest Open Source project out of there. And it has a lot to teach to the other integrated developement environments!


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  • yasnippet - Google Code

    calendar Jul 5, 2009 · 1 min read
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    YASnippet is a template system for emacs. It allows you to type a abbrevation and automatically expand the abbreviation into function templates.

    Bundled language templates includes: C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, Ruby, SQL, LaTeX, HTML, CSS and more.

    Yasnippet system is inspired from TextMate’s template system. You can use a tool to import any TextMate template you have to YASnippet.

    via yasnippet - Google Code.

  • [emacs] save a macro « /home/edivad

    calendar Dec 25, 2008 · 1 min read
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    Once you have recorded a macro, you can save it for later usage on a file (or within your .emacs). The steps to follow in order to get this work, is (1) give a name to the macro, (2) insert it into a buffer.

    M-x name-last-kbd-macro RET my-cool-macro-name

    then (what I usually do), open a buffer for saving it and insert the macro into it

    C-x C-f ~/my-buffer.el ;;open a new (or existing one) file.

    M-x insert-kbd-macro RET my-cool-macro-name ;;insert the macro into the buffer

    C-x C-s ;;save the buffer

    Now, it’s time to use the saved macro. If you have saved it in your .emacs you’ll have it ready on every emacs startup, otherwise it’s enough to load the .el file when needed (I prefer this way)

    M-x load-file RET ~/my-buffer.el

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