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Visualizing Data With Emacs And Gnuplot

I really like Gnuplot. It can produce most of the types of graphs that you’d actually want to produce and it’s reasonably flexible. That said, I hardly ever use it. It’s sort of a chicken/egg problem: on the one hand, … Continue reading

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Emacs 29.3 Is Available

Eli Zaretskii writes to tell us that Emacs 29.3 has been released. It’s the first time in a long time—or maybe ever—that I can recall Emacs releasing a security update. It’s an editor, after all, what security issues could it … Continue reading

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Changing Emacs Defaults

I’ve written before about messing around with Emacs defaults. The argument from those favoring changes is that Emacs’ conventions are not congruent with modern day standards and thus confuse n00bs. This, is turn, inhibits Emacs uptake by new users. The … Continue reading

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Emacs Wow

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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More On The Emacs World Time Clock

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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A Bit More On The Silliest Emacs Meme

Last Friday, I offered up a Red Meat Friday post that discussed the silly but depressingly widely held idea that Emacs is dying. As I said in that post, this is not an idea that’s held by anyone who actually … Continue reading

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Is Emacs Dying?

Is Emacs dying? Lordy, I get so tired of that trope. Don’t like Emacs? I’m fine with that. Sorry you’re missing out, but fine. What I’m not fine with is people who don’t like Emacs and probably have never used … Continue reading

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Zamansy: Using Emacs #82

Mike Zamansky is using some of his newfound free time to learn more about AI. He’s going through Andrew Ng’s Coursera ML class, which requires working in Python. Zamansky used to do a lot of Python but has recently switched … Continue reading

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Emacs Elements on Denote

I’ve written about Denote before but those posts were usually about advanced features that Prot, the author of Denote, was working on. If you don’t know anything about Denote, those other posts may not have meant a lot to you. … Continue reading

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Why Is Emacs Fun

Over at the Emacs subreddit, jackn3 noticed that a lot of experienced Emacs user describe Emacs as a program that’s fun to use and he wondered if the other redditers felt the same and if so why. The responses to … Continue reading

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