Archive for the ‘emacs’ Category

Setting default-directory for Mercurial MQ patches in Emacs

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Emacs' diff-mode is a great tool to work with patches. You can move inside a patch by files or by hunks, it highlights the changes in each line and you can apply and revert individual hunks. However, diff-mode doesn't work out-of-the-box with Mercurial's MQ extension. To make it work, we ...

Showing the current directory in Emacs’ mode line

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Today I got tired of always looking up, where all these little files named "_show.rhtml", "_list.rhtml" and their ilk are living, and patched the emacs mode line to include the last element of the current buffer's directory. http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ModeLineDirtrack describes something very similar, but it repeats the whole mode line definition ...

Live syntax-checking JavaScript with Emacs

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

There are quite some options for doing live syntax checks from within Emacs. A good one is using Steve Yegge's relatively new js2-mode for javascript editing which has a javascript parser built in. But that is not what this blog post will be about. The other option is to use flymake ...