Rationale Emacs users try to avoid leaving their editor for other tasks. There is an shell (Eshell: The Emacs Shell), an integration into Secret Service API (Emacs auth-source Library 0.3) and countless other integrations.
Search is a central element of the Gnome desktop environment. Many applications implement the Search Provider dbus interface to provide suitable results.
The aim of this…
When interacting with the operating systems I always use Eshell because it integrates seamlessly with Emacs, supports (remote) TRAMP file names and also works nice on Windows.
After starting shell commands (like long running build jobs) I often lose track the task when switching buffers.
Thanks to Emacs hooks mechanism you can customize Emacs to call a elisp function when an external…
Org Babel has a wide selection of supported programming languages. But F# was still missing even though it's well suited for Org spreadsheets by the use of strongly typed access to connected information via type providers. So I started an implementation of Org Babel F# support.
In the following use case I adapted an Emacs Lisp implementation for querying the Kraken cryptocurrency exchange. I…