Wisdom And Wonder

Via here, in this example it handles the situation when you want to run Magit but haven’t got a project file open:

(let ((current-prefix-arg '(4)))
  (call-interactively #'magit-status))

My configuration results in an environment where you can only evaluate code within the document and never during export or tangling. That way it is easier to understand what happens when.

Code is only ever evaluated when you execute the document. The results of execution are stored within the document. That is my workflow.

Knitr in comparison does the opposite only evaluating code during export.

Here is the easiest way to make sense of what happens when resulting in what:

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Via here:

• If you want hooks to run call normal-mode
• If you don’t want hooks to run call hack-local-variables

Via here:

I just found a neat trick today i.e hiding uninteresting(temporary files like backup or autosave files, all files of a particular extension or a particular set of files which match a regexp) files in dired-mode using dired-x. Here’s how I did it in my .emacs :-

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