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Persisting Text Scale

Posted on 2026-10-03 by jcs

As we all discover eventually, age is going to be accompanied by declining eyesight. If you make your living writing and coding, this is going to result in some discomfort as it becomes harder and harder to read the text … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: True Believers

Posted on 2026-10-02 by jcs

There are a couple of threads on the Emacs Devel mailing list that, zombie like, refuse to die. They’re essentially the same. One, entitled “ethically” running proprietary code? is an endless discussion of what Emacs should do if a package … Continue reading →

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Revolt Of The Readers

Posted on 2026-10-01 by jcs

Last month I wrote about the new acronym AI;DR (AI didn’t read). The idea was that people were tired of having their email queries answered with AI slop that even the responder probably didn’t read. As I said in that … Continue reading →

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Remember Remember Mode?

Posted on 2026-09-30 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, BBSnek writes about discovering remember mode. It’s been around for a long time. I remember using it before Org mode. Indeed, I still use Ctrl+c r to invoke org-capture because that was what I was … Continue reading →

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Aquí Location Finder

Posted on 2026-09-29 by jcs

Charles Choi has been writing a bunch of nice little apps lately—more than I can cover. His latest, Aquí, is sort of a niche application but is potentially useful for more than just its intended use. The back story is … Continue reading →

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A Nice Example Of An Embark Action

Posted on 2026-09-28 by jcs

As I wrote back in July, although I’ve had Embark installed for some time, I’ve only just begun to really use it. Most of my uses involve following a link (of any type) and acting on a group of files, … Continue reading →

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Outlook To Emacs

Posted on 2026-09-27 by jcs

One of the most common complaints I see from Les Misérables who are stuck in a corporate environment mandating the use of the horrific Outlook for email is that it’s very difficult or impossible to deal with it from within … Continue reading →

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Copy Only What You See

Posted on 2026-09-26 by jcs

Over at Emacs Dwelling, James Dyer has a nice post on capturing only the visible portion of a folded Org region. When you call kill-ring-save (Meta+w) on a folded region, it will capture everything to the kill ring—even the hidden … Continue reading →

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Quick Look For Emacs

Posted on 2026-09-25 by jcs

A quick look at a Quick Look for Emacs from Charles Choi. MacOS has the notion of a Quick Look to peek at a file without invoking a heavier weight application such as an editor. It’s more than just dumping … Continue reading →

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Confirm-kill-emacs

Posted on 2026-09-24 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, Danrobi1 opines that since the advent of use-short-answers, confirm-kill-emacs should be a boolean. His idea is that confirm-kill-emacs should merely specify whether to ask for confirmation or not and let use-short-answers choose the the particular … Continue reading →

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