Author Archives: jcs

Emacs Wow

Posted on 2024-03-16 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, dehaticoder asks what things do you do in Emacs that make people say “Wow”. I’m probably an easy mark but I really love this type of post. They’re always enjoyable and sometimes I even learn … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Avoid The Mouse

Posted on 2024-03-15 by jcs

_nambiar has a short video on how painful it is to watch people use other editors and reach for the mouse every time they want to do some navigation or select text. He’s an Emacs user but his message will … Continue reading →

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More On The Emacs World Time Clock

Posted on 2024-03-14 by jcs

As I’ve written before, Emacs has a world clock. Well, it’s not really a clock: just a list of times in various cities but it’s great for today’s remote work place. If your colleagues are stationed all over the world, … Continue reading →

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Org-linker

Posted on 2024-03-13 by jcs

I’ve had this in my queue for a while but I wanted to try it out before I wrote about it. Sadly, I just haven’t had the time and probably won’t in the immediate future. Therefore, I’m writing about it … Continue reading →

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Boeing Continues To Founder

Posted on 2024-03-12 by jcs

Boeing was a great company. For many years it defined the aviation industry by designing and building the best aircraft possible. The company thrived in large part because its culture was informed by an engineering ethos. Even their top executives … Continue reading →

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Using Hook Functions

Posted on 2024-03-11 by jcs

Arialdo Martini has a nice post on how to configure and use Emacs hook functions. Most Emacs users have a general idea about hook functions but Martini goes into more detail, especially as concerns their use in major modes. The … Continue reading →

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Happy 51st Birthday To Dark Side Of The Moon

Posted on 2024-03-10 by jcs

It’s that time again. Every year on this day, Irreal suspends our normal blathering to celebrate the release of the best album of all time: Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. There are rumors that the actual release date … Continue reading →

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Essential Functions

Posted on 2024-03-09 by jcs

If you’re an Emacs n00b—and despite the ankle biters claiming Emacs is dead, there are a lot of them—İsmail Efe Top has a post that you may find useful. The point of the post is to list some functions that … Continue reading →

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A Defense of RSS

Posted on 2024-03-08 by jcs

As most of you know, I’m a big fan of RSS and use it as my main way of discovering and reading content. It has plenty of detractors but the majority of those are people who are upset that RSS … Continue reading →

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Unified Context Switching

Posted on 2024-03-07 by jcs

James Dyer has a really interesting post on how he used a bit of Elisp to solve one of his workflow problems. He’d recently abandoned his use of save=desktop in favor of recentf. His reasons for switching don’t really matter—although … Continue reading →

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