Author Archives: jcs

A GTD Workflow with Emacs and Org Mode

Posted on 2018-08-03 by jcs

I’ve never bought in to the GTD (Getting Things Done) movement although my own system of scheduling, tracking, and recording tasks probably has a lot in common with the methodology. One often sees the claim that Org mode makes an … Continue reading →

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When Advertising Is Not Advertising

Posted on 2018-08-02 by jcs

Nicholas Rempel has an excellent rant on what passes for advertising these days with the post What We Have Now Is Not Advertising. His thesis is that while things like billboards, TV ads, and magazine ads are advertising, much of … Continue reading →

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Eshell Aliases

Posted on 2018-08-01 by jcs

I try to use Eshell for all my shell work. I’m not 100% successful but I mostly am so Eshell is an important part of my workflow. One of the things that makes using Eshell easier is aliases, just as … Continue reading →

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Multiple Mu4e Signature Blocks

Posted on 2018-07-31 by jcs

Rob Stewart has a blog post that serves as a handy tip on implementing multiple signatures in Mu4e. For those who don’t know, Mu4e is an email client that runs inside Emacs. I use it and love it. It helps … Continue reading →

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Aggregate Tables

Posted on 2018-07-30 by jcs

Thierry Banel and Michael Brand have a really nifty package, orgaggregate, for those who work with data and want to produce a summary or aggregate table from their primary table. Here’s a simple example from their GitHub repository: #+NAME: original … Continue reading →

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Geek Trivia

Posted on 2018-07-29 by jcs

I'm probably the last geek on earth to discover that the model numbers of 3V CR button cell batteries describe their size. E.g., a CR2032 is 20mm diameter and 3.2mm thick. But if I wasn't, now you are. — matt … Continue reading →

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An Email Based Git Workflow

Posted on 2018-07-28 by jcs

A couple of months ago in writing about the Microsoft acquisition of GitHub I said that many projects—large, complicated ones like Linux and Emacs at that—didn’t use GitHub or its siblings at all but depended on email and (raw) Git … Continue reading →

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Selection and Navigation in Emacs

Posted on 2018-07-27 by jcs

Gaurab Paul has a nice post on improving your Emacs workflow with selection and navigation. He says the post is aimed mainly at Emacs immigrants from “other, so called ‘modern’ editors” but he discusses some techniques that even more experienced … Continue reading →

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Managing Forks and Pull Request in GitHub

Posted on 2018-07-26 by jcs

Susam Pal has an excellent write-up on how to fork a project, make some contribution to it, and generate a pull request for the upstream developer. That’s really handy because many times a user will find a problem and generate … Continue reading →

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Clone a GitHub Repository from Within Emacs

Posted on 2018-07-25 by jcs

Here’s another great tip from Wilfred Hughes’ Emacs Command of the Day: M-x github-clone This awesome command will clone a github repo from any URL format you can imagine. It can even automatically fork the repo for you, so you're … Continue reading →

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