Episode 10: Obsession, small tweaks and Hyper key

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After a long break, let’s get back into Emacs and talk about obsessions, small tweaks and improvements in my config, arrows and an additional modal key which could help with long, hard-to-remember Emacs key combinations.

Shownotes

Intro

• Dreaming of obsession
• My new podcast about Computer science, programming and math

Config news

• Abbrev mode
• YAsnippet
• avy
• Episode 5: Blogging with Org mode and Emacs

Hyper key

• Karabiner Elements
• Configure a Hyper Key on OSX
• Karabiner God Mode

November 8, 2019 / permalink

Episode 9: Writing in Emacs and Org mode, part 2

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Let’s continue talking about writing short and long texts in Emacs. This is part 2 of 2. See part 1.

Shownotes

Intro

• My talk Decentralized evolutionary computation with Clojure and ClojureScript

Config news

• fritzgrabo’s helpful comment
• Make counsel-git see untracked files: (setq counsel-git-cmd "git ls-files --full-name --exclude-standard --others --cached --")
• My Emacs workflow video
• celeritasCelery’s project.el + counsel.git solution to project navigation
• Nikita Prokopov
• grumpy.website
• Consider supporting Oleh Krehel (abo-abo) on Patreon. He created and maintains swiper, hydra, lispy, avy and many other awesome extensions.
• Episode 5 of EmacsCast that includes the description of my move from Helm to Ivy
• Visual Line Mode
• Swiper-isearch - a more isearch-like swiper

Writing

• Structure editing in org (including narrowing and widening)
• ox-slimhtml
• Snippet: copy org as html into clipboard
• Markdown mode
• Snipper: copy Markdown as html into clipboard
• Checking and Correcting Spelling
• Powerthesaurus integration

April 22, 2019 / permalink

Episode 8: Writing in Emacs and Org mode, part 1

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Let’s talk about writing short and long texts, blog posts and books in Emacs. Outlining, exporting and publishing. This is part 1 of 2.

Shownotes

Config news

• Display line numbers natively
• Highlight current line
• Background color for current line number
• Projectile docs
• Counsel Projectile

Writing

• Indirect Buffers
• Org LaTeX export
• Example of default Org->LaTeX->PDF export
• Auto-export to HTML on save

Blogging

• EmacsCast Episode 5: Blogging with Org mode and Emacs

Long-form writing

• Pandoc: a universal document converter
• Pandoc conversion diagram
• ox-pandoc: an exporter that translates Org-mode files to other formats via Pandoc

March 13, 2019 / permalink

Episode 7: QA, Evil and Matt

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Answering a few questions from a listener and rambling about tools, optimization, writers and Matt.

Shownotes

• Edit indirect
• “25 years of coding, and I’m just beginning“
• My Twitch page
• Opening Large Files
• How is Doom’s startup so fast?
• nlinum

January 29, 2019 / permalink

Episode 6: Back to basics

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Trying to reduce the amount of code running in my life, and going back to the basics of Emacs when possible. The power of defaults.

You can now support EmacsCast on Patreon! There are perks and this wonderful feeling of helping the project you like :-)

Shownotes

Config news

• org-support-shift-select
• worf.el: org speed keys with a bit of vi flavor
• Org Speed Keys
• How Emacs undo works (reddit)
• Undo (Emacs manual)
• My webcomic Honestly Undefined
• Section of my config with a capture template for ‘new comic’

Back to basics

• Emacs as daemon + Emacs client
• Software disenchantment by Nikita Prokopov
• RE: Software disenchantment (my answer to Nikita)
• Grumpy Website
• Why I’m done with Chrome by Matthew Green
• Smartparens
• Moving in the Parenthesis Structure (Emacs manual)
• Mastering Emacs book

October 20, 2018 / permalink

Episode 5: Blogging with Org mode and Emacs

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Switching from Helm to Ivy, Castlemacs and blogging with Org mode, ox-hugo and Hugo static site generator.

Shownotes

Config news

• Updated config with Ivy instead of Helm
• Shackle a way to control window creation
• Castlemacs: modern, minimalist Emacs for macOS ⌘

Exporting HTML with Org mode

• Some HTML templates for Org exporter
• Another very nice theme (I’m going to set this as default for my setup)
• Wordpress
• Aegea, the blogging engine
• My blog in Russian that uses Jekyll

Blogging with ox-hugo

• My main blog in English powered by Hugo, ox-hugo and Org mode
• Hugo, another static website generator
• Ox-hugo: a carefully crafted Org exporter back-end for Hugo
• Section of ox-hugo documentation on LaTeX

Some articles on math produced with Mathjax

• A Simple Introduction to Proof by Contradiction
• A Simple Introduction to Proof by Induction

September 24, 2018 / permalink

Episode 4: Spacemacs vs. Doom vs. Vanilla Emacs

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Few updates and an overview of two popular community-driven Emacs distributions, focused on Evil mode. Comparison with vanilla Emacs and your own config.

Shownotes

Config news

• New Emacscast.org website (source)
• Hugo static website generator
• Ox-Hugo: A carefully crafted Org exporter back-end for Hugo
• Emacs.el podcast
• My personal blog, powered by ox-hugo as well
• Netlify
• My current config

Support Emacs community developers

• List of ways to support Emacs community developers
• Bastien Guerry’s tweet
• Helm development is stalled for now

Spacemacs

• Spacemacs homepage
• Layers

Doom

• Doom homepage
• Doom themes
• Doom modeline (very pretty!)

Modal editing in Emacs

• Evil-mode
• God mode
• Modalka
• Boon
• RYO modal mode!
• Fingers.el
• Xah Fly Keys

September 5, 2018 / permalink

Episode 3: Org mode

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Fresh “Config News” and an overview of Org mode, a powerful Emacs package for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system.

Shownotes

• My current config
• Org-mode
• Workflowy, a simple outliner
• Org capture video tutorial by Mike Zamansky. Part 2.
• David O’Toole Org tutorial
• Getting Started With Org Mode (YouTube) by Harry Schwartz.
• Getting yourself organized with OrgMode (YouTube playlist) by Rainer König

Plans for the next episode

• Reviewing feedback
• Config news :-)
• Vanilla Emacs vs. Evil Mode vs. Spacemacs vs. Doom

August 10, 2018 / permalink

Episode 2: Config in Org format

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I explain my setup, configuration with Org-babel and packages I have at the moment. It’s a simple, but flexible starting point for beginners, I think.

Shownotes

• My config as of Aug 3, 2018 when this episode aired
• My current config
• Aquamacs, macOS-specific Emacs build
• Emacs For Mac OS X, pure Emacs, no nonsense
• The Emacs Initialization File, like .emacs or .emacs.d/init.el
• Lars Tveito’s config
• Harry R. Schwartz’s config. Harry’s talk about org-mode is excellent, by the way.
• melpa - Milkypostman’s Emacs Lisp Package Archive

Plans for the next episode

• Hopefully, reviewing feedback from listeners :-)
• Good resources for beginners: Emacs, Org Mode, configs
• Basics of org-mode, maybe?

August 3, 2018 / permalink

Episode 1: The Right Mindset for Emacs

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Pilot episode: let’s talk about who this podcast is for, why I make it and how my obsession with tools was somewhat fixed when I tried Emacs.

Shownotes

• Beginner’s Mind
• Approaching Life with Beginner’s Mind by Leo Babauta
• Two Emacs podcasts
• Dendy console, a Taiwanese clone of NES (not SNES, like I said in the episode). The Keyboard version was called Subor and it looked like this.
• Sublime Text Editor

Plans for the next episode

• My configuration in org format
• How org-babel helps
• Quick overview of initial sane default and packages

August 2, 2018 / permalink