In this Emacs Chat, Steve Purcell shares how he got started with Emacs by using a Vim emulation mode, what it’s like to give hundreds of package authors feedback on Emacs Lisp style, and how he’s eventually replacing himself with Emacs Lisp (flycheck-package). He also highlights useful packages for managing buffers of version-controlled files (ibuffer-vc), working with lines if the region isn’t active (whole-line-or-region), or maximizing certain buffers (full-frame).

http://youtu.be/Gq0hG_om9xY

Quick video table of contents (times are approximate):

Transcript will follow. In the meantime, you can check out Steve’s config at https://github.com/purcell/emacs.d, follow him on Twitter at @sanityinc, or go to his website at http://sanityinc.com/. You can find other Emacs Chats at https://sachachua.com/emacs-chat .

Got a nifty Emacs workflow or story that you think other people might find useful? I’d love to set up an Emacs Chat episode with you. Please feel free to comment below or e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com!

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Org Mode, Memacs, lazyblorg, .emacs, Yasnippet, tags . http://karl-voit.at , http://twitter.com/n0v0id , http://github.com/novoid.

Check out Karl's notes for more details. (Or at least, you can check them out when his server is up again!)

Thanks, Karl!

Got an interesting Emacs workflow? Please share. =) Happy to bring on more people for Emacs Chats. Also, check out the upcoming Emacs Hangout on Dec 17 (8 PM Toronto)!

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Mickey Petersen chats about Mastering Emacs, learning advanced topics, navigating by expressions, and making the most of dired and shell. You can find him at masteringemacs.org or twitter.com/mickeynp

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We talk about Emacs NYC, organizing your configuration, pair programming and more.

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Christopher Wellons (nullprogram.com, github.com/skeeto/) started using Emacs nine years ago and has built all sorts of nifty customizations since, including something that plays Tetris for you. He demonstrates the benefits of having an HTTP server running inside Emacs by using Skewer to interact with a web browser and Impatient-mode to share his syntax-highlighted buffer through the Web. In addition, he covers foreign function interfaces, packages, and other good things. Check it out!

Links: 

• https://github.com/skeeto/impatient-mode
• https://github.com/skeeto/.emacs.d 
• https://github.com/skeeto/autotetris-mode
• https://github.com/skeeto/emacsql 
• https://github.com/skeeto/elisp-ffi

Notes contributed by Andrés Ramírez:

• 0:00:10 screen shared
• 0:00:14 javadoc, multiple cursors, impatient mode 4 sharing screen locally, simple httpd
• 0:17:40 ffi, emacsQL
• 0:22:20 eieio
• 0:26:30 elfeed (mentions skewer mode)
• 0:31:00 notmuch
• 0:31:50 calc
• 0:36:40 instrumentation, Steve Yegge, live systems
• 0:44:00 live demo of changing web pages
• 0:45:20 webgl
• 0:46:50 public domain
• 0:49:00 tips for emacs internals
• 0:49:20 read emacs manual; emacs lisp reference manual
• 0:51:50 two different lisp interpretters
• 0:53:58 out of curiosity, curator of elpa
• 0:54:40 planetemacsen
• 0:55:15 best way to find you ; blog github
• 0:56:15 mentioned transcript

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UPDATE 2014-06-13: The transcript is now available.

Bozhidar Batsov (emacsredux.com) shares how he got into Emacs and Emacs Lisp. He also demonstrates cool features from Prelude and Projectile, which are great if you do a lot of programming. Check it out!

Quick Links: https://twitter.com/bbatsov , https://twitter.com/emacs_knight , http://emacsredux.com , https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude , https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile . If you like his work, there's https://www.gittip.com/bbatsov/

Guest: Bozhidar Batsov

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Update 2014-06-13: Transcript now available

Phil Hagelberg talks about custom keyboards, pair-programming with syme.herokuapp.com , Clojure REPLs, starter kits and better defaults, packages, helping his kids learn to think systematically, and warming up his shed-turned-office through XMPP (from Emacs, no doubt).

Quick links: http://technomancy.us , https://syme.herokuapp.com/ , http://github.com/technomancy/better-defaults , https://github.com/technomancy/dotfiles/tree/master/.emacs.d , http://leiningen.org/ , http://technomancy.us/171 (heater), http://atreus.technomancy.us (keyboards)

Guest: Phil Hagelberg

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