I use emacs and rinari when I’m working on ChiliProject. I learned from reading Continuous Testing is that I should be able to run all of my tests with a single key command in an IDE. Unfortunately, ChiliProject’s full test suite takes about 20 minutes to run on my desktop (a whole different problem I’ll be …
Tag: emacs
Emacs ido – [Too Big] Error
I’ve been using ido with Emacs for some time now and have been running into an error after I create a bunch of files in a directory (like with git format-patch). The problem is ido doesn’t want to list all of the files in the directory, even after I delete them and reboot Emacs. I …
Tracking Pomodoros In Emacs With Org-Mode
I’ve been using the Pomodoro Technique for over a year now. The Pomodoro Technique is a way to divide your day into a several sets of time and (try) to focus on one task at a time without distractions. It has worked great for me with a graph paper notebook. This morning though, I was …
Simple Recurring Todo Items In Ruby
I use my simple Emacs Todo mode to keep track of my todo items but one thing that I’ve been missing has been recurring tasks. A calendar with recurring events works okay but I still have to remember to copy them into my todo list or I forget about them. So tonight I whipped up …
Binding special keys in emacs
Like any Emacs user I have some custom keybindings for the common actions I do everyday. Some of the bindings are easy to find but today I specificity wanted a new keybinding to use the “up” arrow. After some trial and error, I found this works perfectly: (global-set-key (kbd "<f9> <up>") 'planner-move-up) (global-set-key (kbd "<f9> …