Author Archives: jcs

Emacs Pretest 30.0.91

Posted on 2024-09-12 by jcs

Andrea Corallo has just announced that the first Emacs 30 pretest (30.0.91) is available for download and testing. You can check the NEWS file to see what’s new in the release. As always, thanks to Eli, Andrea, and all the … Continue reading →

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Casual Symbol Overlay

Posted on 2024-09-11 by jcs

A couple of months ago, I wrote about Álvaro Ramírez’s gluing together of Symbol Overlay and Multiple Cursors. I was really taken with Symbol Overlay and its ability to select a given symbol for further actions. There are many possible … Continue reading →

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Branch Prediction

Posted on 2024-09-10 by jcs

Here’s a very nice discussion of branch prediction from a Stack Overflow question. We graybeards and, really, just about everyone else like to pretend that all processors are still like the PDP-11. They were easy to understand and their semantics … Continue reading →

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Babel and Python

Posted on 2024-09-09 by jcs

This is a sort of Public Service Announcement. One of the great things about Org mode is the code block where you can run code in an Org buffer and have the results inserted into the Org document. I use … Continue reading →

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Using .authinfo With Org Code Blocks

Posted on 2024-09-08 by jcs

As most of you know, I’m a big fan of using literate programming techniques in the context of what might be described as “devops”. The technique boils down to writing an Org file with code blocks that document how you … Continue reading →

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Converting Between Miles and Kilometers

Posted on 2024-09-07 by jcs

Peteris Krumins has a nice post on using Fibonacci numbers to covert between miles and kilometers. The TL;DR is that if you take any two consecutive Fibonacci numbers, X and Y, there will be approximately Y kilometers in X miles … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Should You Replace Emacs With An “AI Editor”?

Posted on 2024-09-06 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, harmanola, an Emacs user of 16 years, says that he’s recently switched from Emacs to Cursor, the AI code editor. It’s his opinion that Emacs has become unstable, that he’s tired of its “non-standard defaults”, … Continue reading →

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More On Upgrading Builtins

Posted on 2024-09-05 by jcs

Last month, I wrote about Charles Choi’s post on the the on package-install-upgrade-built-in variable and how it controls the upgrading of builtin packages. The TL;DR is that when it’s set to t, package.el treats builtin packages as if they had … Continue reading →

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Casual Agenda

Posted on 2024-09-04 by jcs

Charles Choi is announcing another member of his casual suite: Casual Agenda. Like the other members of his suite, Casual Agenda provides a Transient driven menu that helps you navigate the arcane functionality of Org Agenda View. I say “arcane” … Continue reading →

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Show Font

Posted on 2024-09-03 by jcs

The ever industrious Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) just uploaded another nice package to MELPA. It’s a simple little app that displays a font in an Emacs buffer but for those who are on an eternal quest for the perfect font it’s … Continue reading →

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