Posts tagged “Emacs”

2013 Jan 12

iPython Notebook and Astronomy at CodeMash

Another CodeMash is over! Bacon has been eaten, the Kalahari water park has echoed with talks about languages both static and dynamic, and one of the world's most eclectic programming conferences has sent more than a thousand attendees away happy. You're missing @brandon_rhodes #codemash talk. twitter.com/benjaminws/sta…— Benjamin W. Smith (@benjaminws)…

2010 Jun 9

Mounting Windows shares in Linux userspace

A current project has forced me into the clunky world of Windows, to verify that a Python program compiles and runs there just like it runs under Linux. Instead of trying to port my entire development environment to Windows — which includes two decades of customizations and a small empire…

2010 Feb 24

Opening tabs remotely in Google Chrome

Now that I use Google Chrome almost exclusively, I miss the fact that a running Firefox instance could be controlled from the command line so that Emacs could call for a new tab when I clicked on a URL. It would run a command something like this: firefox -remote 'openURL(http://example.com/,…

2009 Feb 25

Installing Python packages for Emacs with virtualenv

The only rough edge I have found amidst the otherwise exceptional advice on Ryan McGuire's Enigma Curry blog is that Ryan recommends installing Python packages with: $ sudo easy_install package_url This means that his Emacs configuration — which, very generously, he has started maintaining as a project on github so…