Emacs.el

On the 7th episode of Emacs.el, Amin joins Daniel as the co-host and they interview Jorgen Schäfer, creator of Elpy, Circe, and some other awesome packages. Download: MP3 Ogg Watch: YouTube Show Notes Elpy is a package that’s meant to ease Python development by bringing IDE-like capabilities into Emacs. These include code-completion, refactoring, virtualenv handling, Django support, and more. Before Elpy, if one wanted to create a similar development environment they would need to scavenge blogs, copy and paste snippets of code and hope that it would all play nicely together. Fortunately, this was unsatisfactory and gave Jorgen the idea of bundling it all together into one package which is now called Elpy. Jorgen is also the author of some other popular packages like Circe, an IRC client in Emacs, and Buttercup, a behavior-driven development framework for testing Emacs Lisp code. Links: Elpy Circe Buttercup Jorgen’s website Package shoutout by Jorgen: Dumb Jump: an Emacs “jump to definition” package, which doesn’t try to be smart about jumping to definitions. “Dumb Jump uses The Silver Searcher ag, ripgrep rg, or grep to find potential definitions of a function or variable under point.”

Charles Lowell, a software developer at Frontside.io known for his contributions to Emacs and JavaScript, shares insights into the unique benefits of a shared Emacs configuration. He discusses the evolution of Emacs from the 90s to now, emphasizing its adaptability and community contributions. The conversation covers implementing ES6 modules in js2-mode and how tools like Undo Tree and Buttercup enhance developer productivity in Emacs. Charles also highlights the importance of personal ELPA archives for smoother development without merge conflicts.

Update: it came to our attention that unfortunately Jason passed away tragically on December 26, 2016. He was a great force in the Clojure community, and the organizer of the Baltimore Clojure meetup. Jason will be dearly missed. Daniel interviews Jason Lewis, who works on Exercism.io and created its Elisp track as well. Download: MP3 Ogg Watch: YouTube Show Notes Related links: Exercism Elisp About Page Exercism Elisp Stats Exercism Elisp GitHub Exercism.el package Exercsim.el mode org-capture org-reveal Shoutouts by Jason: Clojure for the brave and true Daniel: Two Scoops of Django

On this episode Daniel interviews John Wiegley, the current maintainer of Emacs. John talks about the state of Emacs and his plans, and also answers questions asked by the Emacs community. Download: MP3 Ogg Watch: YouTube Show Notes Among other things, John proposes to the community to help with triage of bugs and proof-reading documentation, as ways of contributing to Emacs that don’t necessarily require writing code or being a core contributor. Related links: GNU Bug Tracker List of GNU Emacs bugs bug-gnu-emacs mailing list (bug reports for GNU Emacs) EmacsWiki ​/r/emacs discussions related to the merge of the Xwidgets branch: XWidget Branch has been merged into Emacs 25.1 Watching YouTube inside Emacs 25!

In this episode Daniel interviews Tobias Macey and Chris Patti, the hosts of Podcast.__init__, “the podcast about Python and the people who make it great”. They talk about the differences they see between Vim and Emacs, and also share some information on their Python workflow. Download: MP3 Ogg Watch: YouTube Show Notes Related links: Podcast.__init__: https://www.podcastinit.com Tobias’s twitter: https://twitter.com/TobiasMacey Chri’s twitter: https://twitter.com/feoh

In this episode Daniel interviews Samer Masterson, the organizer of EmacsConf and the current maintainer of Eshell. Download: MP3 Ogg Watch: YouTube Show Notes Related links: Lars Ingebrigtsen’s guide to getting started with contributing to Emacs: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2014/11/13/welcome-new-emacs-developers/ Samer’s blog: https://samertm.com/ Emacs.el’s YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3kg5TcOuFlodvwJDtmq-5rKD3DyyXvnb

Welcome to the very first episode of Emacs.el! In this episode Daniel talks to Sacha Chua about the Emacs community. Download: MP3 Ogg Watch: YouTube Show Notes I apologize about the mic, I didn’t realize it wasn’t connected. Ideas repo: https://github.com/gopar/Emacs.el Related links: Sacha’s blog: http://sachachua.com/ Emacs blogs: http://planet.emacsen.org/ ​/r/emacs sub-reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/ Emacs.el’s YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3kg5TcOuFlodvwJDtmq-5rKD3DyyXvnb