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Sacha Chua - category - emacs-chat-podcast

20 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 8 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings

Emacs, sketches, and life

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2015-12-10 Emacs Chat: John Wiegley on maintaining Emacs and how you can help

December 10, 2015 23:20

These are the bugs that have the “easy” keyword. Note that some of them are because of the package or mode name. =) John Wiegley shared how he uses Gnus and Org to help him with the volume of Emacs-related information, and how people can get started with Emacs development. 0:02 Gnus for mail and news 0:04 Organizing groups by topic 0:05 Adaptive scoring and prioritization 0:09 Setup for mail: Gmail, Fetchmail, Dovecot, Gnus 0:11 Time: 1-2 hours a day 0:13 Community-building 0:15 Usin...

2015-04-08 Emacs Lisp Development Tips with John Wiegley

April 08, 2015 21:09

You can find John Wiegley on Twitter (@jwiegley) or at http://newartisans.com/. 0:00:00 Paredit mode. Start with it from day 1! Matching pairs of parentheses, won’t let you delete one without the other. Inserts appropriate newlines, too 0:03:56 Emacs as a Lisp environment. (Also, Helm is what’s responsible for the display.) Evaluating a function makes it available in the global scope, which has all these functions and commands you can do. This makes it easy to iteratively develop your f...

Emacs Chat with Steve Purcell

January 23, 2015 09:00

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_...

Emacs Chat: Karl Voit

December 05, 2014 13:00

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)! Check out TRANSCRIPT here! http://archive.org/download/20141203EmacsCh...

Emacs Chat: Mickey Petersen

September 03, 2014 12:00

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 Transcript here! document.createElement('audio'); http://archive.org/download/20140810EmacsChatMickeyPetersen/2014-08-10_Emacs_Chat-Mickey_Petersen.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS

Emacs Chat: Harry R. Schwartz

July 25, 2014 00:00

We talk about Emacs NYC, organizing your configuration, pair programming and more. TRANSCRIPT HERE! document.createElement('audio'); http://archive.org/download/EmacsChatHarryRSchwartz/Emacs_Chat-Harry_R_Schwartz.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS

Emacs Chat: Christopher Wellons

May 31, 2014 01:16

Update 2020-06-05: Added notes and timestamps 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, packa...

Emacs Chat: Bozhidar Batsov

May 20, 2014 09:58 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MB

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 […]

Emacs Chat: Phil Hagelberg

May 11, 2014 00:21 - 1 hour - 55.4 MB

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:...

Emacs Chat: Xah Lee (ErgoEmacs)

May 03, 2014 12:00 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MB

Update 2014-05-12: Transcript available at http://emacslife.com/emacs-chats/chat-xah-lee.html I chatted with Xah Lee about how he got started with Emacs, how he’s customized it, and other tips he can share for people who want to learn more. View the event page here. Want just the audio? You can download the MP3. See Emacs Chats for past episodes and information on how […]

Emacs Chat: Jānis Mancēvičs

April 21, 2014 15:55 - 1 hour - 56.8 MB

Chatted with Janis Mancevics about literate programming and video game development =) Want just the audio? Get it from archive.org: MP3 Find more Emacs Chats Transcript

Emacs Chat: Tom Marble

April 11, 2014 01:26 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MB

Emacs Chat: Tom Marble – Invoicing with Org and LaTeX; Clojure Guest: Tom Marble Tom Marble’s doing this pretty nifty thing with Org Mode, time tracking, LaTeX, and invoice generation. Also, Clojure + Emacs, and other good things. Enjoy! For the event page, you may click here. For the transcript, you may click here. Want just […]

Emacs Chat: Iannis Zannos – Emacs and SuperCollider

April 07, 2014 14:00 - 1 hour - 55.5 MB

Emacs! Music! Iannis Zannos shares how Emacs can be used for all sorts of awesomeness with Org Mode and SuperCollider. Check this event page for details and comments =) Transcript available here!

Emacs Chat: Magnar Sveen (Emacs Rocks)

November 25, 2013 13:00 - 57 minutes - 23.2 MB

UPDATE 2014-01-27: Transcript posted! UPDATE: Want just the audio? MP3 / OGG Here are the notes from my chat with Magnar Sveen, the creator of the Emacs Rocks screencast series and a number of other great Emacs resources. Enjoy! 0m48s Magnar has been using Emacs for two years 2m30s Moving from TextMate 3m45s World of Warcraft […]

Emacs Chat: Sacha Chua (with Bastien Guerry)

July 03, 2013 12:00 - 5 MB

UPDATE 2013/07/08: Now with very long transcript! (Read the full blog post to find it.) After I chatted with Bastien Guerry about Emacs, he asked me if he could interview me for the same series. =) So here it is! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ro7VpzQNO4 Just want the audio? http://archive.org/details/EmacsChatSachaChuawithBastienGuerry Find the rest of the Emacs chats at http://sachachua.com/emacs-chat […]

Emacs Chat: Bastien Guerry

May 20, 2013 19:50 - 5 MB

In this chat, Bastien tells stories about getting started in Emacs, reading his mail/news/blogs in Gnus, and hacking his life with Org. =) Enjoy! Want just the audio? You can get MP3s or OGG from archive.org. Update 2014-03-07: Transcript posted!

Emacs Chat: Carsten Dominik

March 25, 2013 18:42 - 5 MB

In which Carsten shares how he got started with Emacs, the joys of Calc, and other cool things. =) Carsten Dominik from Sacha Chua on Vimeo. Want just the audio? Get it from archive.org: MP3, Ogg Vorbis (gosh, archive.org has been automatically converting to Ogg all this time? That’ll simplify my post-production… )

Emacs chat: Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson

March 22, 2013 12:00 - 5 MB

I got to chat with Thomas about Emacs and picking up configuration snippets from EmacsWiki. He’s so lucky – he gets to work with lots of other Emacs geeks! =) Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson – Emacs chat from Sacha Chua on Vimeo. More about Thomas on kjeldahlnilsson.net Just want the audio? Get it from archive.org

Emacs Chat with Avdi Grimm (Org-mode, Ruby, etc.)

March 04, 2013 13:00 - 5 MB

Update 2013-03-16: Get the MP3 or Ogg Vorbis files, or listen to them on archive.org! Thanks to Matthew Darling’s comment on my post about code coaching, I came across Avdi Grimm’s work with pair programming – and was delighted to find that he uses Emacs too. =) Check out my Skype chat with Avdi about […]

Transcript: Emacs chat with John Wiegley

July 02, 2012 12:00 - 43 minutes - 50 MB

This post is long, so if you’re reading this on the main page, go to http://sachachua.com/blog/2012/07/transcript-emacs-chat-john-wiegley/ to view the full transcript! Here’s the video. You can also download the MP3. John Wiegley – June 26, 2012 from Sacha Chua on Vimeo. A day in the life of John Wiegley Sacha: One of the things I’ve […]

Guests

Avdi Grimm
1 Episode

Twitter Mentions

@jwiegley 2 Episodes
@n0v0id 1 Episode
@uwascalwabbit 1 Episode
@emacs_knight 1 Episode
@bbatsov 1 Episode
@mickeynp 1 Episode
@sanityinc 1 Episode