11 July 2021 macOS: Show in Finder / Show in Emacs From Christian Tietze's Open macOS Finder Window in Emacs Dired, I learned about reveal-in-osx-finder. This is handy for the few times I want to transition from Emacs to Finder for file management. I say few times since Emacs's … | Continue reading
27 June 2021 Emacs: smarter search and replace Not long ago, I made a note to go back and read Mac for Translators's Emacs regex with Emacs lisp post. The author highlights Emacs's ability to apply additional logic when replacing text during a search-and-replace session. It … | Continue reading
20 June 2021 Previewing SwiftUI layouts in Emacs (revisited) Back in May 2020, I shared a snippet to extend ob-swift to preview SwiftUI layouts using Emacs org blocks. When I say extend, I didn't quite modify ob-swift itself, but rather advised org-babel-execute:swift to … | Continue reading
19 June 2021 Blurring the lines between shell and editor I recently tweeted that Vivek Haldar's 10-year old post rings true today just the same. He writes about the levels of Emacs proficiency. All 6 levels are insightful in their own right, but for the sake of this post, l … | Continue reading
16 June 2021 xcodebuild's SPM support (Xcode 11) Had been a while since I looked into generating Xcode projects from a Swift package. On my latest use of the generate-xcodeproj subcommand, I was greeted by a nice warning surprise… swift package generate-xcodeproj warning: X … | Continue reading
06 June 2021 Emacs org block completion on melpa When enabled, the character " | Continue reading
01 June 2021 Emacs DWIM: do what ✨I✨ mean Update: There's a DWIM follow-up for searching. I was a rather puzzled the first time I spotted DWIM in an Emacs interactive command name. Don't think I remember what the command itself was, but what's important here is that DWIM … | Continue reading
28 May 2021 Emacs link scraping (2021 edition) A recent Hacker News post, Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals, led me to dust off my oldie but trusty command to extract comment links. I use it to dissect these wonderful references more effectively. You see, I wrote this … | Continue reading
23 May 2021 OCR bookmarks schappim/macOCR: Get any text on your screen into your clipboard.. | Continue reading
19 May 2021 gpg: decryption failed: No secret key (macOS) gpg: decryption failed: No secret key OMG! Where's my secret key gone!? But but but, gpg –list-secret-keys says they're there. Puzzled… Ray Oei's Stack Overflow answer solved the mystery for me: pinentry never got … | Continue reading
17 May 2021 Emacs plus –with-native-comp I'm a big fan of Boris Buliga's Emacs Plus homebrew recipe for customizing and installing Emacs builds on macOS. For a little while, I took a detour and built Emacs myself, so I could enable Andrea Corallo's fantastic native compil … | Continue reading
02 May 2021 Cycling window layouts with hammerspoon Back in January, Patrik Collison tweeted about Rectangle's Todo mode. Rectangle looks great. Although I've not yet adopted it, Todo mode really resonates with me. I've been achieving similar functionality with hammerspoon. … | Continue reading