Tag Archives: Emacs

Follow Mode

Marcin Borkowski has a nice post on Emacs’ follow mode. I’ve known about follow mode for a long time but never saw the point of it. That’s because I always thought of it as being used only on prose buffers. … 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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PSA: Mu 1.12.1

This is just a short PSA. As most of you know, I’m a huge fan of Mu/Mu4e and use it as my main mail client. Lately, I’ve wimped out and rather than building it from source, I’ve been installing it … Continue reading

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Prompting With The Interactive Command

Most Emacs users who are at all familiar with Elisp know that you have to specify the interactive command for functions if you want them to be interactive—that is, if you want them to be callable with Meta+x. Most of … Continue reading

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A Simple Macro

I’ve just had another of my occasional workflow epiphanies where I suddenly realize that some tedious routine task I regularly perform could easily be automated. In this case, only partially automated but one step at a time. Everyday, I take … Continue reading

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Narrowing To Focus

Arthur A. Gleckler has a nifty post that discusses Emacs narrowing as a way to help with focus. The TL;DR is that sometimes you want to focus on a piece of code or other text and one way to do … 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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Red Meat Friday: Avoid The Mouse

_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

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

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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