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Gnome Search Provider: Emacs Integration

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…

Get desktop notifications from Emacs shell commands

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…

Literate programming in F-Sharp using org-mode

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…