This is the third installment of the Gnus series where we discuss scoring . It s a little complex and this screencast is just an overview of the possibilities rather than an in depth tutorial. . Other formats are available on the Archive.org page . Summary V S - View score of current article V s - Set score of current article (requires prefix argument) V R - Re compute score for current article V…
This is the second part of the screencasts discussing Gnus. The general idea was to cover reading email and news articles but the screencast ended becoming 30 minutes long. I broke it down into two pieces so that it s more convenient to download. It discusses the Group buffer where you can see your groups and manage them, the Summary buffer where you can actually see the articles in the group and…
I ve picked up something this time which I ve always wanted to study properly Gnus . The Emacs news and email reader. This is going to be a multipart episode since Gnus is so big. I don t know how many exactly but as of now, I ve got a 3 part thing planned. Also, the hiatus was unexpected. Things should be smoother now. . Other formats are available on the Archive.org page . Comments welcome.…
I ve started Season 2 of the series with a screencast on dired . It s Emacs file browser and can be used to manage files. Performing operations on a large number of them at once and also providing such facilities to other modes. I apologise for the hiatus but I ve been very busy in my real life. I expect more delays till the end of January but I ll do what I can. . Other formats are available on…
The first section that describes how to use Emacs to get your daily work done is over. The second section is going to focus on applications that are written in Emacs. These are different from programming modes and other niceties that will be useful specifically programmers. Those are scheduled for section three. They also need to be sufficiently big and self contained to qualify. Libraries which…
A little late but it s finally up. We re discussing keyboard macros in this episode. Keyboard macros are Emacs way of recording and playing back a series of keys. It s a useful feature that many people don t sufficiently use. The excellent Emacs Rocks series of screencasts has some episodes on clever macro usage to reduce the number of keys needed to perform some kind of task. The H.264 version of…
This is the second part of the customisation episode. This episode covers a little more elisp focusing on common things that people tweak in their init files. It s a little longer than usual. I was feeling tired so I didn t time myself like I usually do. Also, due to some screw up with my mic jack, there s a crackling sound throughout the recording. It s not that bad but it would be nice have…
This is the first of a two part episode that discusses how to do basic customisation of Emacs. This episode covers some basic elisp which is the language that you can extend and modify Emacs with. I do have an entire section dedicated to teaching Emacs lisp. This is a quick intro solely for the purpose of doing basic customisations. The H.264 version of the video for iOS devices is at…
This episode talks about minor modes and shows a few of the commonly used ones. The H.264 version of the video for iOS devices is at https://archive.org/download/EmacsMovies/07-episode-minor-modes.mkv . (This is uploading as I write this post and for a while will be a broken link). Feedback welcome .
These are the topics I m planning to cover in the first section . I m posting this up to solicit feedback on content as well as order Registers and bookmarks A bunch of minor modes (auto-fill, flyspell etc.) Basic customisation (probably a multi part episode) Very basic elisp. Simple settings like colours, font size etc. Minor modes Mode hooks Key bindings The customize system Organising your…
This episode describes Emacs registers and bookmarks. How to use and manipulate them. The H.264 version of the video for iOS devices is at https://archive.org/download/EmacsMovies/06-episode-registers-and-bookmarks.mkv . (This is uploading as I write this post and for a while will be a broken link). Feedback welcome.
This episode describes buffers and how to use them. I m sorry about the gap but my real life got a little hectic and I had to take a couple of weeks off. I ve also changed the video bitrate for the mkv file to something much lesser. I can t see a video quality degradation but the file size is much smaller now. Do let me know if you experience any problems. The H.264 version of the video for iOS…
This post discusses the region , the point , the mark and related matters. It generally deals with the business of cutting and pasting within Emacs. It s a little longer than the others and a little less structured but I think the future screencasts are going to be that way anyway. The video sizes are unnaturally huge this time. I ll probably scale them down from now. The H.264 version of the…
Today s screencast is on editing. We discuss basic editing as well as a handful of commands that allow you to manipulate text efficiently. The H.264 version of the video for iOS devices is at https://archive.org/download/EmacsMovies/03-episode-editing.mkv . This is the sample file which I used for the presentation. Update: There are two more keys which I wanted to mention but missed. The first is…
My original plan was to put out one chapter of the companion book I m writing for this series along with each screencast but I don t think that s realistic anymore. Firstly, they don t map very well. A chapter covering a 10 minute screencast will be too small to be a respectable chapter. Multiple screencasts might be the subject of a single chapter. Secondly, it s a lot more effort writing…
This episode shows basic keyboard navigation in Emacs. The commands discussed here and the ones people use to move around in the editor. There are more advanced ones used in special contexts like finding definitions of functions etc. but those are valid only in specific circumstances. The commands discussed here are the basics. I ve changed the showkeys program to make the font a little larger and…
This is a screencast that introduces the basics of the editor and talks about the special meanings of terms like window , frame etc. that are often used in Emacs. It s the first one which I ve done so feedback is welcome. Please email me at noufal@emacsmovies.org or tweet to @emacsmovies to let me know what you think. Enjoy! (P.S.: I will post the link to the relevant chapter in the companion book…
I m working on a book that should serve the same purpose as this series of screencasts but for an audience that prefers reading rather than watching screencasts. This whole project is as much for my own education as it is to spread the word. It is also a work in progress . Once I upload a video, it s unlikely that I ll fix any mistakes in it. I ll update errata in the blog post but will not redo…
Welcome to Emacs Movies. This is a blog where I plan to post screencasts to teach people how to use the programmers editor Gnu Emacs . Production workflow The videos are recorded by me and then encoded and uploaded. I m not doing any editing and so small mistakes will be left in there. I do plan to make a script and do a trial run before recording the final version so there s some pre editing . I…