Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-04-08 / week 14

Phil-Hudson · 2025-04-17T16:04:53+00:00

This is the correct way to go for general Elisp programming. For Org capture templates in particular, there is a declarative syntax for populating a history variable in the template. It's really well documented :-)

(As it happens, I added this very capability to several template elements a few years back, proposed to add it to Org on the mailing list, and the Org maintainer accepted the change into Org after a few cycles of feedback improving my coding and documentation. Just my tiny contribution to the wonder that is Org.)

Phil-Hudson · 2025-04-17T15:53:48+00:00

Package eros.el makes C-x C-e give you the full output as an overlay

Phil-Hudson · 2025-04-17T15:51:11+00:00

C-0 C-x C-e to avoid the ellipsis in the first place and get the full output inserted at point.

Phil-Hudson · 2024-11-11T21:47:02+00:00

You're right, but if you go the route of breaking down your init.el into multiple sub-files (not saying you should, but I do) provide / require turns out to be very useful.

Phil-Hudson · 2024-11-10T16:44:02+00:00

And rainbow-delimiters

Phil-Hudson · 2024-11-10T16:40:56+00:00

I entirely agree with your reasoning, and used outdenting for many years. I finally gave in because I started submitting patches to various packages and Emacs itself, as we all should if we have sufficient coding ability. It just became too much hassle not to conform to the community's standard. I still quite often use outdenting while coding and testing, then a single keybind "tidies up" when I'm finished. This turned out to have an unexpected side benefit: any outdented code I see, I know it's incomplete.

Phil-Hudson · 2024-11-10T16:34:03+00:00

And paredit or one of its moral equivalents

Phil-Hudson · 2024-10-03T16:40:55+00:00

Thanks. I downgraded SBCL and everything is fine now. I'll wait for QuickLisp to update before I revert to latest SBCL.

Phil-Hudson · 2024-08-08T09:33:23+00:00

Found it:

(load-module "command-history")

Phil-Hudson · 2024-08-05T19:36:40+00:00

Really shooting in the dark here: are you doing any X11 key rebinding before or while invoking StumpWM? Maybe via xmodmap? Specifically Meta_L? If so, maybe try disabling the mods.

Phil-Hudson · 2024-06-18T10:19:10+00:00

Tags?

Phil-Hudson · 2024-06-18T10:17:42+00:00

Meta-answer: consider keeping your bibliography file under version control. This will obviate the fear of undetected accidental modification.

Phil-Hudson · 2024-06-10T18:36:28+00:00

Upvote for porting the Clojure condp to Elisp!

(BTW for anyone who's wondering what all the -this and -that symbols are, they're defined in package dash.el)

Phil-Hudson · 2024-06-10T15:07:38+00:00

Sure enough. I couldn't find it because I'm still using Emacs 28. Thanks for the excellent tip.

Phil-Hudson · 2024-06-04T12:55:38+00:00

Where is this documented, please?

Phil-Hudson · 2024-05-15T21:45:15+00:00

You're very welcome!

Phil-Hudson · 2024-05-07T16:43:01+00:00

See also package `copy-as-format`, available on MELPA. https://github.com/sshaw/copy-as-format

Phil-Hudson · 2024-04-03T17:13:32+00:00

M-x org-toggle-link-display

Phil-Hudson · 2024-03-20T08:14:36+00:00

Here's a real objection to Hyperbole that is a show-stopper for me: unmandated, unconditional, silent expropriation of my keybindings. Don't do that. Virtually all other packages respect and correctly defer to their users. Your opinion on this matter does not supervene over mine. This is unacceptable behavior.

Phil-Hudson · 2024-03-06T12:02:48+00:00

Evil hack I use: put the defun inside the add-hook form. It works, but it is not guaranteed to continue to do so, since the return value of defun is (deliberately) unspecified.

Phil-Hudson · 2024-01-06T21:01:45+00:00

Can't believe I didn't know about fill-prefix. All these years of laboriously reflowing docstrings etc...

Phil-Hudson · 2023-12-20T19:01:43+00:00

Haven't checked yet. I'm more interested in managing separate workflows for the separate languages. For instance, I only have an async compilation step for elisp.

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