Whether you use Org-Mode Literate Programming to manage your Emacs startup or not, you will enjoy testing your configuration files changes in another Emacs instance:
alias ets="emacs --debug-init --no-init-file --no-splash --background-color white --foreground-color black --vertical-scroll-bars --eval '(switch-to-buffer \"*Messages*\")' --name TEST --title TEST --load ~/src/help/.emacs.el &"
For Sun workstation bootup nostalgia the buffer has black text on a white background.
(message "ECM Information Follows") (message "Org-Version:") (message (org-version)) (message "Org-Git-Version:") (message (org-git-version)) (message "Emacs-Version:") (message (emacs-version)) (message "org-babel-default-header-args") (princ org-babel-default-header-args)
Read why here.
When you think about it you’ll find that it is pretty simple.
You just haven’t thought about it. And why should you have?
Curiosity is always lauded for the easy stuff like art and science. Yet it emboldens you to do more.
Curiosity gives you the courage to learn about the things that you most fear. Then you conquer them.
Have you spent hundreds of hours configuring and thinking about Emacs?
And despite that your fondness for it only continues to grow?
And when you can’t explain to your friends why you love Emacs you chalk it up to your own poor communication skills.
I do.
But here is another explanation.
I dare you to watch all eleven minutes.
Addendum
Alternate title: “Emacs: You Came For A Bargain And Left With A Treasure”
It might be hard to admit it for us Emacsers but most of us are pretty comfortable using Excel (or its clones) for data management. Maybe the fun stops there but it doesn’t have to.
Here are the two most important functions for getting the most out of working together with Org-Mode data tables and Excel (without having to use literate programming):
Continue reading “Org-Mode's Two Most Useful Data Table Functions That You Probably Never Used”
Here is how to keep Emacs healthy and happy on macOS on my machine.
Continue reading “How To Keep Emacs Healthy And Happy on macOS”
Here is the best Occur configuration that I’ve ever had on my machine.
Inspiration gives everything it has and expects nothing in return.
Here are five expansive and inclusive inspirations:
Continue reading “You Must Do The Thing Which You Think You Cannot Do”
Icom America is sending one American Ham to Japan for the JARL Ham Fair 2017. Here is the entry page and you can submit a new one every week.
Seems like a fine vacation probably concluding with a fine new rig and maybe a visit to Okunoshima AKA “Bunny Island” maybe with a new D-STAR handheld.
