https://blog.hoetzel.info/tags/emacs/ Recent content in Emacs on Hugo en Thu, 23 May 2024 17:38:13 +0200 https://blog.hoetzel.info/post/consult-gnome-search/ Thu, 23 May 2024 17:38:13 +0200 https://blog.hoetzel.info/post/consult-gnome-search/ Rationale Emacs users try to avoid leaving their editor for other tasks. There is an shell (Eshell: The Emacs Shell), an integration into Secret Service API (Emacs auth-source Library 0.3) and countless other integrations. Search is a central element of the Gnome desktop environment. Many applications implement the Search Provider dbus interface to provide suitable results. The aim of this package is to make these search results also available within the Emacs editor. https://blog.hoetzel.info/post/eshell-notifications/ Fri, 31 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.hoetzel.info/post/eshell-notifications/ When interacting with the operating systems I always use Eshell because it integrates seamlessly with Emacs, supports (remote) TRAMP file names and also works nice on Windows. After starting shell commands (like long running build jobs) I often lose track the task when switching buffers. Thanks to Emacs hooks mechanism you can customize Emacs to call a elisp function when an external command finishes. I use John Wiegleys excellent alert package to send desktop notifications: https://blog.hoetzel.info/post/literate-programming-in-fsharp/ Sat, 17 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.hoetzel.info/post/literate-programming-in-fsharp/ Org Babel has a wide selection of supported programming languages. But F# was still missing even though it's well suited for Org spreadsheets by the use of strongly typed access to connected information via type providers. So I started an implementation of Org Babel F# support. In the following use case I adapted an Emacs Lisp implementation for querying the Kraken cryptocurrency exchange. I also used Org Babel Shell to install and use Paket: a dependency manager for .