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Second Pretest for Emacs 26.2

Nicolas Petton writes that the emacs-26.1.91, the second pretest for emacs 26.2, is out. I compiled and installed it last night and am using it as my working Emacs. I have less than a day’s experience with it so far … Continue reading

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Making Poet

In a nice coda to my recent recent post on the Poet Theme, Kunal Bhalla has published a post, Making Poet, an Emacs theme, on how he developed the theme and added monochrome and dark versions of it. Because he … Continue reading

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Our Government in Action

Five years ago, I wrote a series of posts [1, 2, 3, 4] on the U.S. Government’s actions against Dr. Rahinah Ibrahim, a Malaysian architect who had just completed her PhD at Stanford. You can read the details in the … Continue reading

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Generating RSS with Org-mode

In my Blogging with Emacs Only post, I noted that the solution under discussion didn’t include a way of generating an RSS feed. Details like that are one of the reasons that solutions involving blogging frameworks like Hugo make a … Continue reading

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Multiline Fontification

The invaluable fuco1 solves a problem that I’ve stumbled upon in the past: how can you make org-mode emphasis markup—things like italics, bold, etc.—span more than two lines1. I almost never need to do this so I’ve spent zero thought … Continue reading

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John Weigley on Magit

John Weigley has an excellent video on using Magit. It’s very comprehensive and the content is quite dense so you may want to watch it more than once. He covers the usual easy commands that everybody uses but also some … Continue reading

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Blogging with Emacs Only

As most of you know, I enjoy reading about other bloggers’ workflows. I especially like workflows that use only Emacs and Org mode without any third-party tools. In Yesterday’s post, I promised to write about Diego Vicente’s Emacs-only blogging workflow. … Continue reading

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Diego Vicente’s 2018 Wrapup

It’s a new year and thumbing through the Emacs Blogger Manual I see that I’m supposed to offer a year end perspective on my Emacs use. The problem is that after more than a decade of Emacs use, my configuration … Continue reading

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Notes for Karl Voit’s Talk at 35c3

Karl Voit gave a talk about Org mode at the recent 35c3 conference. He argued the position that even if you’re a die hard Vim user—like he is—Org mode has a lot to offer and it’s worth learning a bit … Continue reading

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How You Know the Copyright Cartel Is Out of Control

Remember, kids, when you get a tattoo, its copyright belongs to the tattoo artist, not you. So when you become famous, there’ll be IP problems. https://t.co/hmBmr8kepn — Kontra (@counternotions) December 29, 2018 I get that artists don’t want others ripping … Continue reading

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