Wicked Cool Emacs: BBDB: Keeping track of contact dates
I hadn’t realized just how much I missed my Big Brother Database until today. Three networking events packed into one week meant that I hadn’t set aside enough time for follow up, and I felt my...
View ArticleWicked Cool Emacs: BBDB: Use nicknames and custom salutations
Update 2014-05-13: The original code is for BBDB version 2. Thomas Morgan sent this update which makes it work with BBDB version 3 – see below. I like starting my e-mail with a short salutation such...
View ArticleWicked Cool Emacs: BBDB: Set up BBDB
The main address book and contact management module for Emacs is the Insidious Big Brother Database (BBDB), which can be integrated into several mail clients and other modules within Emacs. If you use...
View ArticleWicked Cool Emacs: BBDB: Work with Records
Creating Records Creating a record in BBDB is not like creating a record in graphical address book programs. You will be prompted for each field through the minibuffer, one field at a time. Don’t worry...
View ArticleWicked Cool Emacs: BBDB: Import CSV and vCard Files
If you have many contacts in another address book program, you can import them into BBDB. Two popular formats are comma-separated value files (CSV) and vCard files (VCF). Project XXX: Import a CSV File...
View ArticleFaster mail with Emacs
I spent a few minutes getting offlineimap to synchronize my Gmail messages with dovecot, an IMAP server on my laptop. I also set up Gnus to work with the messages. Now I’m having fun speeding through...
View ArticleThat’s my dad!
Beauty is in eye of autistic youth – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos He has come up with “the kind of shots that have eluded some of us, even with years of training,†said ace...
View ArticleGeek: How to use offlineimap and the dovecot mail server to read your Gmail...
2015-12-24: Updated with config changes now that I’m back to using Gnus+dovecot+offlineimap+Gmail 2014-04-09: This post is from 2008. =) I think I used dovecot+offlineimap because Gnus and maildir...
View ArticleEmacs Gnus: Searching Mail
There are several ways to find messages in Emacs. From the summary buffer, you can use / o (gnus-summary-insert-old-articles) to display all or some old messages. You can then scan through the headers...
View ArticleEmacs Gnus: Organize Your Mail
People handle large volumes of mail in different ways. Keeping everything in one mailbox can quickly become unmanageable because messages you need to read get lost among messages you don’t need to...
View ArticleEmacs Gnus: Filter Spam
(draft for an upcoming book called Wicked Cool Emacs) Ah, spam, the bane of our Internet lives. There is no completely reliable way to automatically filter spam. Spam messages that slip through the...
View ArticleEmacs and PHP: On-the-fly syntax checking with Flymake
The dreaded white screen of nothingness usually means that I’ve misplaced a quotation mark or brace somewhere in my PHP code. On-the-fly syntax checking in Eclipse helped me find those errors quickly...
View ArticleWhy browse the Web in Emacs?
2014-11-27: Hi, Hacker News! Remember, this post is from 2008 and predates Emacs 24.4. I hear EWW (Emacs Web Wowser?) is pretty cool and have been meaning to try it out. Anyway, on with the show! “Are...
View ArticleEmacs and W3M: Toggling between work and the Web
Here’s a handy shortcut that toggles between the W3M web browser and other buffers you’re working on. I use it to quickly switch between code and documentation (or your favorite timewasting site, as it...
View ArticleEmacs and w3m: Making tabbed browsing easier
If you browse with a lot of open tabs, like I do, w3m will be much easier to use once you remap w3m-next-buffer and w3m-previous-buffer onto single-key shortcuts, allowing you to press a key to quickly...
View ArticleEmacs w3m: Open pages in external browsers
Sometimes w3m is not enough. To make it easier to open the current page in a browser such as Mozilla Firefox, add the following to your ~/.emacs: (defun wicked/w3m-open-current-page-in-firefox () "Open...
View ArticleEmacs: Working with multiple source trees
As a developer, I often find myself working with multiple trees of source code. Sometimes, I’m comparing the trunk and the branches. Sometimes, I’m copying ideas from one place to another. Sometimes,...
View ArticleUsing org2blog to publish Org-mode subtrees
This patch modifies punchagan’s org2blog to allow you to publish an Org subtree with M-x org2blog-post-subtree. It posts a draft by default, and publishes the post if you call it with C-u M-x...
View ArticleLiterate programming and my Emacs configuration file
Update 2013-08-30: Changed Emacs Starter Kit link. Thanks, Thomas! Inspired by the Emacs Starter Kit and the literate programming features in org-babel, I reviewed and organized my Emacs configuration....
View ArticleEmacs Chat: Harry R. Schwartz
We talk about Emacs NYC, organizing your configuration, pair programming and more. TRANSCRIPT HERE!
View Article