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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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Strong Opinions Loosely Held

Posted on 2020-07-26 by jcs

The other day in this Daring Fireball post about the demise of the Apple G4 Cube, Gruber describes Steve Jobs as having “strong opinions loosely held.” He says it was one of Job’s truly extraordinary powers. It’s hard to argue … Continue reading →

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A Paper-Like Emacs Writing Configuration

Posted on 2020-07-25 by jcs

Manuel Uberti enjoys writing his journal entries with pen and paper. Lots of people do although I’m not one of them. The fact, as I’m sure I’ve mentioned before, that I have terrible handwriting no doubt has something to do … Continue reading →

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The Withering of Office Space

Posted on 2020-07-24 by jcs

As we’re learning, COVID-19 is causing profound changes in the way we live and causing us to question many long-held assumptions about how things work, indeed, how they must work. I’ve written about some of those things previously. Today’s example … Continue reading →

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Quit Processes on Exit from Emacs

Posted on 2020-07-23 by jcs

Yesterday, I wrote about fixing a small annoyance on my MacBook. Here’s a quickie from Bozhidar Batsov that fixes another small annoyance. This time the annoyance is with Emacs, although as Batsov explains, it’s particularly annoying on macOS. The problem … Continue reading →

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Inserting Newlines in the Mac’s Messages App

Posted on 2020-07-22 by jcs

On the heels of yesterday’s semi-Mac-specific post, here’s one that’s entirely Mac specific. If you’re a Linux or Windows user, there won’t be anything very interesting for you in this offering. John Gruber over at Daring Fireball, provoked by a … Continue reading →

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A Shortcut Manager for My Emacs-centric Workstation

Posted on 2020-07-21 by jcs

At first glance, this post might appear to be of interest only to Mac users but most of the ideas also apply to other systems. As I’ve written many times, Emacs is at the center of my computing workflow. Almost … Continue reading →

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Emacs for Everything

Posted on 2020-07-20 by jcs

Alex Schroeder is an Emacs user who, like me, does as much as he can in Emacs. Also like me, he spends most of his tube time in Emacs or a browser. Unlike me, he uses EWW for a good … Continue reading →

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Emacs Keybindings on macOS Redux

Posted on 2020-07-19 by jcs

I just saw this tweet from Vivek Haldar Little-known fact: Common #Emacs Shortcuts (C-{a, e, k, y, n, p, b, f}) work *universally* in Mac OS X. In any text box in any app. — Vivek Haldar (@vivekhaldar) July 18, … Continue reading →

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Polyglot Documents in Org-mode

Posted on 2020-07-18 by jcs

The University of Oxford Software Engineering Research group (OxRSE) has an interesting post on how they use Org-mode to publish tutorial material with the examples in different programming languages. The idea is to present the concepts, which are language agnostic, … Continue reading →

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