Emacs on manuel uberti

Yesterday I noticed it has been a while since I wrote something here.

Since I moved to bullet-journaling, most of the time I have been writing on paper.

Despite my best efforts, my English needs constant work.1 I mostly write in this language when I am online, but good prose is a matter of trying, failing, trying again, failing again, and never give up.

Among the things that I dropped when I moved to Helm, Swiper was one of the first ones to go.

In the middle of a frantic editing session one can use some help.

If you have followed this blog long enough, you know it’s been a while since I embraced shell-mode.

Until I noticed that I was hardly using everything it has to offer, Leo Liu’s easy-kill was one of the packages I used the most.

Fun fact: the mode-line is the one Emacs thing I’ve probably spent most of my tinkering time on.

The situation doesn’t seem to get any better, does it?

As mentioned briefly at the end of the previous entry, today we are going to play with Emacs' Eldoc.

I guess there is no need to explain the choice of the word “lockdown” in the title.

For a long, long while I was a happy Solarized Light user.

When I wrote about how I use ripgrep with Helm in Ripgrepping with Helm, I overlooked something.

Helm provides so many great commands I am still discovering new gems in it, like the useful helm-regexp, which lets you build your regular expression pattern, see the results of your search live in the Helm buffer, and optionally pass the query to query-r…

Last time I tailored my own helm-do-grep-ag to show you how I use ripgrep within Helm.

Sometimes curiosity leads me to use alternative packages for built-in solutions which I should have explored better.

Last year I wrote about making Company completion popup appear on demand.

One of the central pieces of my recent return to Helm is helm-ls-git, which empowers helm-browse-project with everything I need to move through my Git projects smoothly.

In describing my move to Helm I quickly mentioned another package from Thierry Volpiatto: psession. psession is a light session saving mechanism and it comes with built-in integration for Helm among other things, which of course renders it a valuable impr…

It was a cold winter back in December 2014.

It’s already been a month since I moved from package.el to straight.el, and if it wasn’t for the constant fiddling with my Emacs configuration, I would have hardly noticed the differences in package management.

I have never found Emacs appealing without external packages.

It’s amazing how many packages for our beloved editor exist out there.

Years ago I wrote about a custom function that uses shell-command-on-region to run xmllint on an XML buffer.

Life is such an ephemeral thing.

Last time I refactored my windows restoring configuration in order to pass the prefix argument around.

Last year I blogged about a solution to a common problem I had with windows in Emacs.

I have ve been using shell-mode regularly for almost two years now.

Years of Emacs, and I am still learning something new that improves my daily workflow.

Last month I wrote about the neat nswbuff, but there is another way to implement buffer switching without introducing a new package.

Last time I shared my preferred choice for buffer switching, so let’s keep jumping around.

One of the most valuable packages I rely on everyday is counsel-projectile.

Sometimes it just takes a little thing to make your day.

Emacs users know their beloved editor has a penchant for throwing windows and buffers around.

Last time I explained how to display your Emacs version with extra useful details.

If you like to play diligently and kindly with the Emacs community, you will end up reporting bugs or asking for new features to your favourite package maintainers.

Since I basically spend much of my computing in Emacs, it’s no surprise I have come to love customizing it.

Following my last article on restoring window configurations with custom functions, Clément Pit-Claudel got in touch with me and suggested a little improvement.

Last time I explained how I customised Magit to kill its buffers upon quitting magit-status.

Some say that Emacs users rarely kill buffers.

Any programmer knows the importance of refactoring.

As a software developer, I cannot avoid log files.

Nowadays it is basically impossible to land in a group of Emacs enthusiasts without someone talking rapturously about the wonders of Magit.

Up until a few weeks ago, I had never messed with Docker.

As much as most of my daily workflow revolves around Emacs, I always have GNOME terminal ready to fly with Fish shell and tmux.

As I explained when I wrote about my daily Clojure workflow I rely heavily on Smartparens for my editing.

I am not a big fan of workspaces on my desktop environments, maybe because to me Alt-Tab is enough.

Writing about Christopher Wellons’ elfeed is the least I can do to describe how thankful I am for this gem, especially since it’s one of the Emacs packages I use the most.

How often do you have a look at your .emacs.d directory?

I take my Emacs configuration with me on every computer I use.