Emacs on Will Schenk

Claude Code in Emacs

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:42:05 +0000

Claude Code provides a CLI interface to Claude that maintains full project context and can execute commands directly. The claude-code.el package integrates this into Emacs, giving you access to Claude's capabilities without leaving your editor.

Key Integration Points

Project Scope Management

Claude Code operates on entire directory trees rather than individual files. When you start a session from your project root, Claude has read access to all files in that directory and can understand relationships between components, build configurations, and test files.

AI in Emacs

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 10:45:21 +0000

Everything is better with emacs. Lets see how we can plug in ollama into it. We are going to use ellama and they like the zephyr, so lets pull that. You can configure it to use other things, but lets go with the defaults for now.

Also see how to use claude code.

Installation

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 ollama pull zephyr

Update your repos

M-x straight-pull-recipe-repositories

Then:

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 (use-package ellama
 :ensure t
 :init
 ;; setup key bindings
 (setopt ellama-keymap-prefix "C-c e")
 )

Chat interface

Then we can start up a chat usine ellama-chat or using C-c e a i – which is a bit of a mouthful. Let me see what it thinks about Rudolf Steiner:

Updating date in org file

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 05:33:54 +0000

References

Emacs Blogging mode take 2

Sun, 02 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I've moved the structure of my site around so I thought I'd change up how I managed posts. Also, it was way too slow!

Lets get into it.

Set it up

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 ;; set the directory
 (setq blog-mode-base-dir "/Users/wschenk/willschenk.com/content")

 ;; from magit
 (require 'transient)

List out all the files

In my content directory I have:

`articles`	long posts
`howtos`	walk throughs on how to do something
`labnotes`	notes to my future self on how to build something
`fragments`	more like short term microposts

Most new things are org but there are a lot of old md files. This finds them all up to a certain depth.

Setting up emacs re-re-dux

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Can we ever stop setting up emacs? I don't think it's possible, no. Lets do it again, with a nice clean setup using Nano Emacs.

Compiling emacs

First lets get ourselves a clean emacs from d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus.

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 $ brew tap d12frosted/emacs-plus
 $ brew install emacs-plus@29 --with-imagemagick --with-native-comp \
 --with-modern-sexy-v2-icon --with-xwidgets
 $ ln -s /opt/homebrew/opt/emacs-plus@29/Emacs.app /Applications

This will take a nice little while.

And some graphing things that we will eventually use with org-babel:

Getting emacs working on OSX Monterey

Fri, 12 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

I recently got a new MacBook Pro. I still love my old Pixelbook, but I'm running too many docker containers on it and its slowing down my development time. In addition to the beautiful screen, zippy processor and charge it whenever you feel like it battery life, the speakers on the new MacBooks are mind blowing. But, of course we need emacs.

Also, ports and function keys. Finally.

Install `homebrew`

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/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)”

Then run the “next steps part”

SQL in Org-Mode

Sat, 17 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

I do a lot of sql, and I do a lot of org-mode. Lets put them together.

Native SQLite

In org-babel-load-languages turn on sqlite. (You can use customize for this if you don't have another method in use.)

Then you have a source block that looks like

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 _#+begin_src sqlite :db test.db :colnames yes
 create table if not exists greeting(one varchar(10), two varchar(10));
 insert into greeting values( 'Hello', 'world!');
 select * from greeting;
 _#+end_src

(Remove the _ if you are copy and pasting.)

Setting up emacs for typescript development

Tue, 13 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

I've been playing with deno and typescript, so I thought I'd document how to setup a basic tide environment with emacs.

Prerecs

Things will go better if you have nativejson support in your emacs build. I build from scratch which is super easy, but to check what you have you can run the following elisp:

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 (if (functionp 'json-serialize)
 (message "Native JSON is available")
 (message "Native JSON is *not* available"))

Native JSON is available

You also will need Node > 0.12.0, which you can test with:

Emacs Blog Writing and Navigation Mode

Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This has been updated

This blog is basically my labnotes where I explore different parts of technology. Almost all of my coding related activity starts off in this repo, while I explore different things to see how they work. I have a lot of things in drafts, and I wanted to learn how to build a simple emacs interface to let me navigate around my file system.

I couldn't find any good documentation on how to do anything with tabulated-list-mode so I spend the evening poking around and seeing how it works. Here you go.

Installing emacs on buster

Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

I've already written about installing emacs-snapshot on debian buster, here are two additional ways. The first is to use flatpak, and the other is to build from source.

Flatpack

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sudo apt-get install flatpak
sudo apt install gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Then:

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sudo flatpak install flathub org.gnu.emacs

And running it:

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flatpak run org.gnu.emacs

You can then pin it in your dock and you are good to go.

Getting Websters

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

A few years ago I read a great post about the value of a good dictionary, which I installed on my laptop and then promptly forgot about. The post is very moving, and I recommend checking it out.

It was recently mentioned on the planet emacs blog circuit and so I thought I'd document how to get it up and running on my laptop.

Also I don't understand what the appeal of John McPhee's writing, I've tried a few of his books but found them all so plodding. Perhaps it's because I'm not savoring the sentences enough…

Upgrading emacs on debian

Sun, 28 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Been playing with elfeed on Emacs 26.1 on buster and it keeps crashing. I think for font related reasons. So lets follow the Emacs Wiki Instructions to upgrade to emacs-snapshots and see if that helps.

Add the snap shot repository.

Make sure you have the tools installed so that apt can do it's internet thing.

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sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo apt-get update

Add the signing key:

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wget -q http://emacs.ganneff.de/apt.key -O- | sudo apt-key add

And add the packages to your local index. Note that I'm specifically using buster here so update that if you need do.

Beginning Emacs

Sat, 06 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Intro

I've been dipping back ito the world of free software, and have been having a huge amount of fun getting back into emacs. I'm using it more of an operating system than I ever did before, as a way to navigate the world using a text interface. I'd never thought I'd be done with the terminal, but this is the first time that I've got something better and more powerful.

Emacs Tramp tricks

Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Emacs is amazing. It’s a very different sort of thing than a code text editor like Vim or an IDE like VSCode. It’s a different way of thinking of how to interact with a computer, where you build up techniques on top of simple tricks that let you get amazing things done. Of course, part of the appeal/challenge is that you need to figure out how to make it work yourself. Since there’s not much in the way of gentle tutorials, lets look at what you can do with tramp to get a sense of what is possible.

Using Org Mode in Hugo

Fri, 02 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

I'm learning org-mode and I don't really know what I'm doing, but this is how I'm trying out writing hugo posts with it. I'm used to markdown, so this is a what's different post.

Some minor org-mode tweaks

For some reason when org-mode starts it doesn't softwrap the paragragh text. I like to have it soft-wrapped so everything is on the screen if it's not collapsed. Also having some nice indentation makes things visually cleaner, so add this snippet to your ~/.emacs to have these turned on by default.