Emacs Chat

You can find John Wiegley on Twitter (@jwiegley) or at http://newartisans.com/. 0:00:00 Paredit mode. Start with it from day 1! Matching pairs of parentheses, won’t let you delete one without the other. Inserts appropriate newlines, too 0:03:56 Emacs as a Lisp environment. (Also, Helm is what’s responsible for the display.) Evaluating a function makes it […]

In this Emacs Chat, Steve Purcell shares how he got started with Emacs by using a Vim emulation mode, what it’s like to give hundreds of package authors feedback on Emacs Lisp style, and how he’s eventually replacing himself with Emacs Lisp (flycheck-package). He also highlights useful packages for managing buffers of version-controlled files (ibuffer-vc), […]

Karl Voit talks about Org Mode, Memacs, Lazyblorg, Yasnippet, and other cool Emacs things.

Mickey Petersen chats about Mastering Emacs, learning advanced topics, navigating by expressions, and making the most of dired and shell. You can find him at masteringemacs.org or twitter.com/mickeynp Transcript here!

We talk about Emacs NYC, organizing your configuration, pair programming and more. TRANSCRIPT HERE!

Update 2020-06-05: Added notes and timestamps Christopher Wellons (nullprogram.com, github.com/skeeto/) started using Emacs nine years ago and has built all sorts of nifty customizations since, including something that plays Tetris for you. He demonstrates the benefits of having an HTTP server running inside Emacs by using Skewer to interact with a web browser and Impatient-mode […]

UPDATE 2014-06-13: The transcript is now available. Bozhidar Batsov (emacsredux.com) shares how he got into Emacs and Emacs Lisp. He also demonstrates cool features from Prelude and Projectile, which are great if you do a lot of programming. Check it out! Quick Links: https://twitter.com/bbatsov , https://twitter.com/emacs_knight , http://emacsredux.com , https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude , https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile . If you […]

Update 2014-06-13: Transcript now available Phil Hagelberg talks about custom keyboards, pair-programming with syme.herokuapp.com , Clojure REPLs, starter kits and better defaults, packages, helping his kids learn to think systematically, and warming up his shed-turned-office through XMPP (from Emacs, no doubt). Quick links: http://technomancy.us , https://syme.herokuapp.com/ , http://github.com/technomancy/better-defaults , https://github.com/technomancy/dotfiles/tree/master/.emacs.d , http://leiningen.org/ , http://technomancy.us/171 (heater), […]

Update 2014-05-12: Transcript available at http://emacslife.com/emacs-chats/chat-xah-lee.html I chatted with Xah Lee about how he got started with Emacs, how he’s customized it, and other tips he can share for people who want to learn more. View the event page here. Want just the audio? You can download the MP3. See Emacs Chats for past episodes and information on how […]

Chatted with Janis Mancevics about literate programming and video game development =) Want just the audio? Get it from archive.org: MP3 Find more Emacs Chats Transcript

Emacs Chat: Tom Marble – Invoicing with Org and LaTeX; Clojure Guest: Tom Marble Tom Marble’s doing this pretty nifty thing with Org Mode, time tracking, LaTeX, and invoice generation. Also, Clojure + Emacs, and other good things. Enjoy! For the event page, you may click here. For the transcript, you may click here. Want just […]

Emacs! Music! Iannis Zannos shares how Emacs can be used for all sorts of awesomeness with Org Mode and SuperCollider. Check this event page for details and comments =) Transcript available here!

UPDATE 2014-01-27: Transcript posted! UPDATE: Want just the audio? MP3 / OGG Here are the notes from my chat with Magnar Sveen, the creator of the Emacs Rocks screencast series and a number of other great Emacs resources. Enjoy! 0m48s Magnar has been using Emacs for two years 2m30s Moving from TextMate 3m45s World of Warcraft […]

UPDATE 2013/07/08: Now with very long transcript! (Read the full blog post to find it.) After I chatted with Bastien Guerry about Emacs, he asked me if he could interview me for the same series. =) So here it is! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ro7VpzQNO4 Just want the audio? http://archive.org/details/EmacsChatSachaChuawithBastienGuerry Find the rest of the Emacs chats at http://sachachua.com/emacs-chat […]

In this chat, Bastien tells stories about getting started in Emacs, reading his mail/news/blogs in Gnus, and hacking his life with Org. =) Enjoy! Want just the audio? You can get MP3s or OGG from archive.org. Update 2014-03-07: Transcript posted!

In which Carsten shares how he got started with Emacs, the joys of Calc, and other cool things. =) Carsten Dominik from Sacha Chua on Vimeo. Want just the audio? Get it from archive.org: MP3, Ogg Vorbis (gosh, archive.org has been automatically converting to Ogg all this time? That’ll simplify my post-production… )

I got to chat with Thomas about Emacs and picking up configuration snippets from EmacsWiki. He’s so lucky – he gets to work with lots of other Emacs geeks! =) Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson – Emacs chat from Sacha Chua on Vimeo. More about Thomas on kjeldahlnilsson.net Just want the audio? Get it from archive.org

Update 2013-03-16: Get the MP3 or Ogg Vorbis files, or listen to them on archive.org! Thanks to Matthew Darling’s comment on my post about code coaching, I came across Avdi Grimm’s work with pair programming – and was delighted to find that he uses Emacs too. =) Check out my Skype chat with Avdi about […]

This post is long, so if you’re reading this on the main page, go to http://sachachua.com/blog/2012/07/transcript-emacs-chat-john-wiegley/ to view the full transcript! Here’s the video. You can also download the MP3. John Wiegley – June 26, 2012 from Sacha Chua on Vimeo. A day in the life of John Wiegley Sacha: One of the things I’ve […]