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Phrontisterion

Posted on 2024-09-22 by jcs

A few days ago, I wrote about Trevor Hopkins’ site and his hosting of some very nice material concerning Iain M Banks’ Culture universe. My post was about a detailed description of the Culture and how it works that was … Continue reading →

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Emacs Popup Frames

Posted on 2024-09-21 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has posted a really nice and useful video on something that I’ve been struggling with off and on for many years. The problem is I often want—usually several times a day—to pop up an Emacs buffer and … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: More Red Meat For Emacsers

Posted on 2024-09-20 by jcs

You can think of today’s post as a coda to last week’s Red Meat Friday. Unlike that post, this week’s offering isn’t really about the editor holy war. It’s about Emacs versus every other editor out there, which is a … Continue reading →

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Speaking Of Emacs Keyboards

Posted on 2024-09-19 by jcs

After my last post on ideal Emacs keyboards, here’s a reminder of what reality actually looks like. When I used to see pictures like that, I thought they were amusing but couldn’t really relate. Now my own laptop keyboard is … Continue reading →

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The Ideal Emacs Keyboard

Posted on 2024-09-18 by jcs

If you’re a real Emacs aficionado then you probably think that the ideal—indeed, the only acceptable—keyboard for Emacs is the Space Cadet Keybord. I’m sympathetic to that view and would love to have such a keyboard available to use. Sadly, … Continue reading →

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Word Diff Counter

Posted on 2024-09-17 by jcs

Chris Maiorana has an interesting take on counting words. He’s a writer and like all writers, he’s interested in how many words he’s written in the current session. His reasons for wanting that count boils down to it providing a … Continue reading →

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An Early Emacs Paper

Posted on 2024-09-16 by jcs

For those of you interested in the history of Emacs, how it all started, and where it got its name, here is an original document from 1979 written by Richard Stallman that describers the new Emacs system. I found the … Continue reading →

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Some Notes On The Culture

Posted on 2024-09-15 by jcs

Virtually everyone here knows that I’m a huge fan of Iain M Banks’ Culture novels. Indeed, the name “Irreal” comes from an idea in his 1996 novel, Excession. I’ve read all the Culture novels except the last one, which I’m … Continue reading →

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Org For Writing And More

Posted on 2024-09-14 by jcs

Aditya Athalye has a nice post on how he uses Org-mode for writing and more. Like most Org users he started using it for a single task and discovered, as he went along, that he could also use it for … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: A Poetic Incursion Into The Editor Wars

Posted on 2024-09-13 by jcs

Here’s a bit of Friday Red Meat for all you Emacs partisans in the eternal editor holy war. Before you flame me, please keep in mind that I was a long time Vim user and often write approvingly of it. … Continue reading →

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