My Emacs Productivity Tricks/Hacks

Post by jcelerier » Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 9:40 PM UTC

downut wrote: post #79

numlocked wrote: post #63

The one thing I consistently do in emacs that shocks my coworkers -- is running this (custom) function, that I call "arrayify": (defun arrayify (start end quote) "Turn strings on newlines into a QUOTEd, comma-separated one-liner." (interactive "r\nMQuote: ") (let ((insertion (mapconcat (lambda (x) (format "%s%s%s" quote x quote)) (split-string (buffer-substring start end)) ", "))) (delete-region start end) (insert in…

I am developing a headache now, after trying this out, because I'm remembering all the times I have done this by hand. Or even writing an awk script, etc.

     xclip -o | awk '{ print "\"" $0 "\"," }'

Post by wry_discontent » Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 9:44 PM UTC

why-el wrote: post #34

Another beautifully designed piece of Emacs software is magit, where the defaults are extremely sane. The package is self-documented and you can learn it all by typing ? anytime. Being able to git log the file you are in is also a huge plus.

Post by wry_discontent » Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 9:46 PM UTC

elcomet wrote: post #60

098799 wrote: post #2

Helm-projectile rant is well deserved. I'm often ashamed looking at my colleagues trying to find some file with a mouse in their big fat IDEs.

All decent IDEs have a file search command.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 10:05 PM UTC

skummetmaelk wrote: post #91

cletus wrote: post #89

Whenever I hear about or see the .vimrc and .emacs files people create, maintain and constantly modify to me this just looks like the perfect example of a sunk cost fallacy. IDEs are usually dismissed by many such people since you can (allegedly) do the same in vim/emacs but to me this seemed crazy as I'd see people spend hours configuring plugins, writing Lisp and whatever to save them on some task they'd get for fr…

Would you rather drive a nice car that needs some loving care and maintenance once in a while or an old banger that just gets the job done? It's the same sort of prospect. Some people like to work in a nice environment where they are able to remove all the little frustrations that less customizable tools often force upon you. When emacs annoys you at least you can fix it if it is annoying enough for you to want to do…

Post by downut » Thu, Jan 23, 2020, 10:13 PM UTC

flylikeabanana wrote: post #97

jcelerier wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hm, I just select the text and do xclip -o | awk '{ print "\"" $0 "\"," }' find it simpler than 10 lines of lisp but what do I know :p

Once you bind it to a key, though, it's a lot quicker. There is something to be said for emacs as a unified computing environment when compared to the UNIX way of doing things. Instead of wrangling different parts of the filesystem and tying them together with aliases and shell scripts, you can just version-control the productivity software (i.e. your emacs config) you write in the course of using emacs.