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Endless Parentheses
Personal blog · endlessparentheses.comprogrammingproductivity
Endless Parentheses is a personal blog at endlessparentheses.com about programming and productivity. Since 2014, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Cider-debug – a visual, interactive, debugger for Clojure”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Short and consistent weekly posts on improving your Emacs productivity. Code included is emacs-lisp, lying anywhere in the complexity spectrum with little explanations or tutorials. Posts read quickly and pleasantly for experienced Emacsers, while new enthusiasts are invited to ask questions in the
Most-linked posts?
- Cider-debug – a visual, interactive, debugger for Clojure4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-04-07
- Running Emacs on Android3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-04-06
- It’s Magit and you’re the magician2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-09-21
- Big things to expect from Emacs 252 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-10-27
- How I blog: One year of posts in a single org file2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-27
What Hacker News says?
There are various schemes to use an org mode file as your configuration, which gives you all the niceties of org mode: collapsible headers, language-aware editing modes, etc. Here's one: http://endlessparentheses.com/init-org-Without-org-mode.html
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on “A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)”Submitted Use Emacs Org-mode Links for Absolutely Anything as a story · 95 points
HN discussionI don't synch between instances of Org, but you can install a full-blown Emacs (and many other apps) on Android within the Termux terminal emulator: http://endlessparentheses.com/running-emacs-on-android.html It runs Org fine, I've even used Spacemacs on Emacs runnning in Termux.
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on “Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook”Submitted Big things to expect from Emacs 25 as a story · 87 points
HN discussionActually Emacs does have a Clojure debugger now. http://endlessparentheses.com/cider-debug-a-visual-interacti...
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on “How I Start: Clojure”Submitted Keep your Slack distractions under control with Emacs as a story · 86 points
HN discussionUnite, fireplace, rainbow parens, vim-sexp and vim-surround are all available in Emacs with its own and better implementation. If you want Unite equivalent, check Helm which is created before Unite and is still actively maintained. See one of Helm package demo: http://tuhdo.github.io/helm-projectile.html . The same for rainbow-parentheses. Actually, Emacs got something better than rainbow-parentheses for visual aidi…
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on “Spacemacs – Emacs advanced kit focused on Evil”Submitted Running Emacs on Android as a story · 79 points
HN discussionHere's a super quick overview of some of the most useful commands: http://endlessparentheses.com/it-s-magit-and-you-re-the-magi...
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on “Magit Kickstarter fully funded”Submitted Write Gmail in Emacs the Easy Way: gmail-message-mode as a story · 68 points
HN discussionhttp://endlessparentheses.com/cider-debug-a-visual-interacti... The cider debugger is one of the best I've seen. I've been able to stop, inject code and create a test case for failing tests. Cursive has similar functionality as well if you are afraid of emacs becoming a lifestyle :)
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on “Elements of Clojure”Submitted How I blog: One year of posts in a single org file as a story · 48 points
HN discussionhttp://endlessparentheses.com/new-in-emacs-25-1-archive-prio... is what I'm most looking forward to – being able to prefer stable versions, but install unstable if there is no stable release =D
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on “Emacs 25.1 RC1”Submitted An introduction to Names: practical namespaces for Emacs-Lisp as a story · 14 points
HN discussionLooking for a changelog, I found this interesting collection of blog posts: http://endlessparentheses.com/tags-expanded.html#emacs-25
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on “Emacs 25.1 RC1”Submitted Big things to expect from Emacs 25 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI prefer keeping everything in one file (but exporting to separate files) so I hacked something up[1]. It doesn't build the index, but it would be pretty easy to extend to do so. There's also Arthur Malabarba's extension[2] to ox-jekyll that's a much more complete solution. [1] https://gist.github.com/andreareina/37c634f102f819db8e49828f... [2] http://endlessparentheses.com/how-i-blog-one-year-of-posts-i...
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on “Blogging with Emacs org-mode”Submitted It’s Magit and you’re the magician as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTo save a google search, here's an emacs customization to leave cursor at the start of the match. From http://endlessparentheses.com/leave-the-cursor-at-start-of-m... (add-hook 'isearch-mode-end-hook #'endless/goto-match-beginning) (defun endless/goto-match-beginning () "Go to the start of current isearch match. Use in `isearch-mode-end-hook'." (when (and isearch-forward (number-or-marker-p isearch-other-end) (not m…
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on “Ask HN: Emacs-like Incremental Search?”Submitted Debugging Elisp Part 1: Earn your independence (2014) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Get in the habit of using sharp quote (in elisp) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sweet New Features in Emacs 24.4 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I blog: One year of posts in a single org file (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What tests you shouldn't write: an essay on negative tests as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mold Slack entirely to your liking with emacs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted It’s Magit and You’re the Magician as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Be a 4clojure hero with Emacs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hungry Delete Mode as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Useful New Features in Emacs 24.4 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keep your Slack distractions under control with Emacs (2017) as a story · 1 points
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