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Red Meat Friday: The Oxford Comma

Posted on 2021-12-24 by jcs

There’s a particularly odious type of reprobate who refuses to use the Oxford comma. A subset of the type can claim ignorance as a mitigating factor but, sadly, the majority of the transgressors do so with full knowledge and understanding … Continue reading →

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Emacs TIL

Posted on 2021-12-23 by jcs

Junji Zhi has a newish (since September) blog that he calls Emacs TIL. As the name suggests, it’s a collection of small tips that Zhi learned on any particular day. The tips are all short—one or two minute reads—and easy … Continue reading →

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Exporting Environments From Org-mode

Posted on 2021-12-22 by jcs

This is a followup to yesterday’s post on Nicolas P. Rougier’s notebook-mode. When I was going through the code trying to understand how everything worked I noticed that the Org source code had a #+begin_sidefig / #+end_sidefig environment that mapped … Continue reading →

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A Beautiful Example of Literate Programming In Org-mode

Posted on 2021-12-21 by jcs

Look at this! Literate programming in #emacs using org mode and org babel. pic.twitter.com/AOpYwpnmq7 — Nicolas P. Rougier (@NPRougier) December 20, 2021 Despite my protestations of being all-digital / all-day, I’m a sucker for this type of thing. It’s just … Continue reading →

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Input Methods

Posted on 2021-12-20 by jcs

Mickey Petersen has another great post up at Mastering Emacs. In the post, Mickey notes that Emacs 29 is going to have first class support for emoji. I don’t use emoji much so I don’t care but Mickey’s post was … Continue reading →

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Attaching Files to an Org Tree from Dired

Posted on 2021-12-19 by jcs

Daniel Gopar offers up this gem on attaching Dired files to an Org-mode tree: #orgtip: Found this little nugget that I didn’t know existed. You can attach files from a dired buffer to an #orgmode tree.https://t.co/iTfBLHBvVm#emacs — Daniel Gopar (@pygopar) … Continue reading →

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What Could Go Wrong?

Posted on 2021-12-18 by jcs

I feel like that guy in a toga and long white beard parading around with a “Repent” sign. I know I have as much chance of changing any minds as the repent guy does but I can’t help myself. If … Continue reading →

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Five Emacs Features to Love

Posted on 2021-12-17 by jcs

Seth Kenlon of Red Hat has an interesting article on five reasons that he love Emacs. Of course, all of us Emacs users have lots of reasons that we love our editor, but Kenlon’s articles considers how those features are … Continue reading →

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Emacs and Siri Shortcuts

Posted on 2021-12-16 by jcs

MacOS Shortcuts are a recent addition to Apple’s various operating systems that provides an easy way to automate various workflows. You can tap on the shortcut or even ask Siri to run it. It’s an interesting idea but I haven’t … Continue reading →

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Five Hacks for Org Roam

Posted on 2021-12-15 by jcs

David Wilson of the System Crafters Channel has a new video in his Build a Second Brain playlist. The serious is about Org-roam, and is, as I’ve said before, the best introduction to and guide for setting up Org-roam that … Continue reading →

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