Author Archives: jcs

Hooray. Journelly, which I think of as an iOS front end for Emacs’ Org mode, has been officially released. For those of you who have been waiting for an official release to try it out, your time has come. I’ve … Continue reading →

The Emacs mode line contains a wealth of information, much of which I depend on daily. Some of that information is what the major mode is and what minor modes are active. Again, that’s often useful information. Still, there are … Continue reading →

It’s been about a month since JTR (over at TAONAW) and I started using Journelly. Although it’s still in beta—but approaching its release date—I’ve nevertheless come to rely on it for my memo book. It’s smooth integration with Org mode … Continue reading →

Charles Choi has posted a tip mostly, he says, as a reminder to his future self. It’s about how to sort strings on a single Emacs line. At first blush that may not seem all that useful but a moment’s … Continue reading →

Christian Tietze has an informative post that tells us how to keep an Org file sorted. Your first question should be, “What do you mean by sorted?” Your second question should be, “What does ‘keep sorted’ mean?” Tietze answers both … Continue reading →

The Emacs Cat has a post on an Emacs feature that I use but had mostly forgotten about. It concerns the Emacs time stamp that lets you record in a file when it was last modified. I use it at … Continue reading →

Well, actually on any Mac but I couldn’t resist the symmetry. You’re probably wondering what this post is all about. It turns out that Apple computers are inclined to autocomplete “Emacs” to “eMacs”. That, apparently, is because Apple once sold … Continue reading →