Author Archives: jcs

Steve Yegge on Emacs and Google

Posted on 2020-08-15 by jcs

It’s not Friday but Steve Yegge offers us some juicy red meat with a splendid rant on Google’s constant deprecation of their APIs. His main thesis is that backward compatibility is the hallmark of successful software systems that last for … Continue reading →

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RMF: Emacs and Vim Are Not Line Editors

Posted on 2020-08-14 by jcs

Ed is a line editor. QED is a line editor. Even Edlin is a line editor. Vim and Emacs are not: they’re visual or full-screen editors. This Red Meat Friday offering may not exercise most of you but I find … Continue reading →

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Screenshots in Emacs on macOS

Posted on 2020-08-13 by jcs

Diego Zamboni has a post that describes how to add a screenshot to an Org buffer. The post considers the problem from the point of view of macOS but is easily adapted to other operating systems. He uses the org-download … Continue reading →

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PDFs and the Web

Posted on 2020-08-12 by jcs

The Nielsen Norman Group has an interesting article on PDFs and the Web and why they should never be read online. The article says that the group first reported this conclusion 20 years ago and nothing that’s happened in the … Continue reading →

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Emacs 27.1 Has Been Released

Posted on 2020-08-11 by jcs

That was speedy. After only two weeks since the release of the Emacs-27.1-RC1, the final 27.1 is available. I’m happy to say that this post is being written with it and I haven’t experienced any problems at all. There’s a … Continue reading →

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Troubleshooting Mu4e Update

Posted on 2020-08-10 by jcs

Recently, I wrote about my adventures in troubleshooting Mu4e. This is an update on what I discovered and what I did to resolve the problem. The chances are good that this won’t be of interest to anyone but I’m writing … Continue reading →

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A Proposal to Ban Adtech

Posted on 2020-08-09 by jcs

A really great article by Gilad Edelman in Wired asks Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising? The article is from March but I somehow missed it and it’s definitely worth writing about. Even without going into any details at … Continue reading →

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The Frame Patch

Posted on 2020-08-08 by jcs

As I mentioned yesterday in my post about the just announced Emacs 27.1-RC2, Álvaro Ramírez left a comment to my post A Shortcut Manager for My Emacs-centric Workstation. In that post, I said that I was using yequake to pop … Continue reading →

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Emacs 27.1-RC2

Posted on 2020-08-07 by jcs

The Emacs 27.1 train keeps rolling along with the announcement of the second release candidate. I’ve been using 27.1-RC1 and haven’t encountered any problems so I wasn’t going to bother with RC2 but Álvaro Ramírez just explained to me how … Continue reading →

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Rolling Your Own Emacs Modal Mode

Posted on 2020-08-06 by jcs

Lukas Lazarek has a very interesting post that details how he implemented his own evil-like mode for Emacs. Lazarek begins by describing the difference between Emacs and Vim. His distinction is much like mine: Vim wants to be a lightweight, … Continue reading →

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