Category Archives: General

Left Hand Quick Commands

Emacs elements has another interesting video, this time on some commands that he’s rebound for quick invocation. Those commands are (roughly): kill-buffer set-mark-command (Push mark) set-mark-command (Pop mark) exchange-point-and-mark jump-out-of-pair (A custom command) He begins the video with some praise … Continue reading

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: That’s Not Vim…

Just a quickie today but it’s really, really red meat. If you’re an Emacs partisan, it will give you a reason to chuckle all day. If you worship at the Church of Vim, you’ll be less amused. As I’ve said … Continue reading

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Boeing: The Past Comes Due

I was going to fold this into my last post on Boeing but as I considered how to add it to that post, I realized that I had too much to say. As I noted in the last post, I’ve … Continue reading

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Neal Stephenson On Emacs

All of us Emacs nerds are familiar with Neal Stephenon’s essay In the Beginning…Was the Command Line, in which he describes Emacs as the thermonuclear word processor. A couple of years ago, he did a podcast with Lex Fridman in … Continue reading

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Boeing’s Suicide Mission

This is yet another post about Boeing and its troubles. I know I seem obsessive about this issue, and I am. It saddens me that a company known for—some would say who defined—engineering excellence has been hijacked by a pack … Continue reading

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An Analysis Of The XZ Malware Injection Process

If you’re in tech and not in a coma, you will have at least heard of the recent attempt to inject malware through the xz (de)compression utility. The technical press, as is its wont, has been blasting the story all … Continue reading

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A Deep Dive On Registers

Arialdo Martini is back with a very informative post about using registers to store buffer locations and other data. He starts with positing the need to store buffer locations by name rather than storing them in a ring buffer as … Continue reading

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Writing With Emacs

This post is about another of my browsers tabs that I’ve had open seemingly forever. It’s a curated list of resources for writing with Emacs. As such, it’s a nice coda to my previous post on Emacs writing workflows. It’s … Continue reading

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An Emacs Writing Workflow

I’ve written before about Peter Prevos and his Emacs Writing Studio but here’s a bit more. I’ve had this article about the Emacs writing workflow up in my browser for a long while and decided the time had come to … Continue reading

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Recover Session

I just came across a really interesting post from Tory Anderson. Like me, Anderson lives in Emacs. In fact, since he’s a Linux user and runs exwm, he lives in Emacs even more than I do. Anderson notes that sometime … Continue reading

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