Author Archives: jcs

Chris Maiorana has a useful piece of information for all Emacs users. If you’ve used Emacs at all for writing you’re doubtlessly familiar with ispell. I’m a terrible speller and absolutely couldn’t live without it. I have it set up … Continue reading →

Álvaro Ramirez has announced another of his “ease my workflow” projects. Like many, or perhaps most, of the best projects, this one was conceived to scratch an author’s itch. This particular itch was finding a way of taking a quick … Continue reading →

Charles Choi has an excellent post on imenu. I’ve used it for a long time via the excellent councel-imenu but I’ve never really understood its scope or essential raison d’être. I’ve always thought of it as a way of locating … Continue reading →

Planning for the 2024 EmacsConf is underway and the organizers are calling for participation. “Calling for participation” means they’re asking folks to submit proposals for talks. The conference will again be virtual and take place on December 7th and 8th. … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, Phovox—a 30-year Emacs user—asks what your favorite Emacs utilities are. He’s started using Doom Emacs and has discovered, through Doom, utilities that he didn’t know about. So he’s wondering what else he may have missed … Continue reading →

There’s a great question and answers post over at the Emacs subreddit. The question, from lynnlei, asks how a prose writer who has been using Vim should approach moving to Emacs. This comes up a lot, of course, and it’s … Continue reading →

It’s been a slow day on the Intertubes for Irreal material but I do have something that might interest those of you who have the misfortune to be running Emacs on Windows. Just the other day, we discussed the sad … Continue reading →

Chris Maiorana has another thought provoking post that advocates the use of one line sentences. The idea is that each sentence ends not just with a period but with a newline. That seems a little unnatural but has a lot … Continue reading →