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Zettelkasten Explained and Demoed

Posted on 2020-08-05 by jcs

Continuing with yesterday’s theme about Zettelkastens, today I’d like to point you at two videos that explain and demonstrate the idea. The first, ZETTELKASTEN METHOD (Explained Clearly with Examples and Software), by Mike and Matty, two brothers who are physicians … Continue reading →

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Zettelkasten Goes Mainstream

Posted on 2020-08-04 by jcs

Until March of this year, I had never heard the term “Zettelkasten” or anything about the concept to which it applies. I first came across the idea in a post by Tiago Forte, which pointed me to Sönke Ahrens’ book, … Continue reading →

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A Short Tutorial on ERT

Posted on 2020-08-03 by jcs

Abrochard has an excellent short tutorial on using ERT for running regression tests on your Elisp code. Most of us, of course, don’t write enough Elisp to worry about regression tests but if you want to contribute to Emacs or … Continue reading →

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Troubleshooting Mu4e

Posted on 2020-08-02 by jcs

After I upgraded to macOS Catalina—or perhaps after I replaced my laptop because of the spilled drink catastrophe—I’ve been having problems with mu/mu4e. That’s serious for me because they are my primary email client. There are two problems. First, mds … Continue reading →

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Update On My 27.1RC1 Experience

Posted on 2020-08-01 by jcs

It’s been a few days since I installed and starting using Emacs 27.1RC1 for all my day-to-day chores. If you follow the Emacs development list, all the items concerning 27.1 problems might lead you to think that it still wasn’t … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Offered Without Comment

Posted on 2020-07-31 by jcs

Lol. This is too funny. #linux #vim > #emacs > #nano #programming #editors pic.twitter.com/hIcM96F0GG — pwnaday (@pwnaday) July 31, 2020

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Emacs 27.1-RC1

Posted on 2020-07-30 by jcs

Emacs 27 is entering the home stretch. Nicolas Petton has pushed a commit bumping the version number from 27.0.91 to 27.1 and prepared tar and zip files for RC1. If you can, download it and try it out. The testing … Continue reading →

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Super-links

Posted on 2020-07-29 by jcs

This looks promising. Karl Voit has a post about org-super-links and their use in implementing a sort of poor man’s Zettelkasten. Super-links is still very preliminary but the idea is to provide an automatic way of implementing back links, something … Continue reading →

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An Emacs/Org-mode Setup for Writing

Posted on 2020-07-28 by jcs

Bhalla Kunal over at expLog has an interesting post on his writing setup. It’s Emacs and Org-mode based but, interestingly, he says that the thing that helped his workflow the most was rotating his monitor so that he had more … Continue reading →

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The Right Dictionary and How to Get It

Posted on 2020-07-27 by jcs

Yesterday, I saw a tweet in which someone referred to Marcin Borkowski’s 2017 post on using the Webster 1923 dictionary in Emacs. Why would you want to do that? The answer to that is given in James Somers’ 2014 post, … Continue reading →

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