CIDER is the Clojure IDE and REPL for Emacs. It is built on top of nREPL, the Clojure networked REPL server and replaces the direct use of nREPL in Emacs.
In this article we are using CIDER that is packaged in Emacs Live, a very complete, well organised and extensible configuration for Clojure and many other things in Emacs.
Once you have more buffers (files) open than windows in Emacs, then having a quick way to cycle through buffers is invaluable. Even with 4 windows open, I still find myself using IBuffer, C-c C-x, many times.
Sometimes I just want to switch between the current and previous buffer in the same window. So this is how I tweaked my Emacs configuration (based on Emacs Live) to cycle through buffers.
Emacs is a tool that just keeps on giving and Org-mode is a fantantastic way to create text based content and manage it effectively. As Org-mode is just a text format then it can be easily converted by Emacs into other formats (markdown, pdf, html, etc). I’ll show you how to create other formats from Org-mode, so you can confidently write everything in Org-mode and generate any format you need.
In previous articles I showed how to setup Emacs Org-reveal & Reveal.js to generate your own presentations from Emacs Org-mode files. This time I’ll show you how to publish those presentations on Github Pages as I have done for my own presentations.
Creating presentations with Emacs is quick and more collaborative than with other tools I have used. Using Emacs Org-mode you can easily structure and navigate your content. Using Org-Reveal you can generate a great looking HTML5 presentation using Reveal.js from your org-mode content.
I’ll show you how to configure Emacs, Org-Reveal and Reveal.js so you can create content in plain text and generate a themed, animated slide-deck that supports syntax highlighting for lots of languages. As your content is in plan text its easy to collaborate around it with Github.
Org-mode is a great way to track tasks and manage all those to-do items in one place, although Org-mode has a very simple workflow by default (TODO | DONE). To track your tasks in more detail you can define extra stages or create a completely workflow.
Emacs Org-mode has a feature called Org-capture that makes it easy to keep track of all the to-do’s that crop up as we work on projects. With Org-capture you can make comments across all your files and projects and link to them all from one place.
Here is how to configure Emacs Org-capture so you can quickly create new tasks relevant to specific files and easily manage them all in one place. If you are not familiar with Emacs Org-mode, take a look at my article: Manage your developer life with Org-mode.
As a busy developer I end up working on several projects, documents & books at the same time. I want a simple way to capture notes where I don’t have to worry about formatting. I also want to keep a track on all the things I am working on. As I do most of my coding & writing with Emacs, then I was sure it had something that could help.
Emacs is a really powerful tool for Clojure development, although without a guiding hand it can be a bit of a learning curve. Using the Emacs Live its really simple to get a fully featured development environment for Clojure. I will show you how to get Emacs Live installed and how to start using it for Clojure.
Emacs is fun to configure and if you have the basics of LISP or Clojure then its pretty easy too. After reading how to replace the text on the modeline I decided to customise my mode-line to make it more efficient for Clojure development. I’ll cover how I tweaked the mode line and added this customisation to my Emacs Live based configuration.
