Author Archives: jcs

Language/Editor Integration

Posted on 2018-01-28 by jcs

In yesterday’s post, I discussed Karl Voit’s love letter to Org mode and how he’s come to depend on it for personal information management. Articles about Org mode almost always make the point that Org documents are plain text and … Continue reading →

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Karl Voit on Org Mode

Posted on 2018-01-27 by jcs

Karl Voit has a lovely paean to Org mode in which he recounts his journey to Org in a years-long quest to organize his life and maintain a knowledge database. I’m sympathetic. I started with a Rolodex and a pocket … Continue reading →

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How Do I Exit Vi?

Posted on 2018-01-26 by jcs

As I’m sure all of you know, there’s a meme going around about people not being able to figure out how to exit Vi/Vim. I haven’t joined in the fun because, after all, exiting Emacs is just as obscure. Nevertheless, … Continue reading →

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Comparing Doom Emacs, Spacemacs, and Vanilla Emacs

Posted on 2018-01-25 by jcs

Yiming Chen has an interesting post that compares Doom Emacs, Spacemacs, and vanilla (i.e out-of-the-box GNU-) Emacs. Chen approaches the subject from the point of view of a Vim immigrant who is heavily invested in the Vim keystrokes and mindset. … Continue reading →

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Debugging Elfeed with DTrace

Posted on 2018-01-24 by jcs

If you don’t follow Chris Wellons over at nullprogram.com, you really should. Wellons always has interesting posts, and often discusses fascinating technical details. He’s shown me how to do things that I didn’t know Emacs could do like rendering fractals. … Continue reading →

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Agenda Alerts

Posted on 2018-01-23 by jcs

An exception to my all-things-in-Emacs rule is my calendar. I do keep an Org mode agenda for things like projects and tasks to be done but for doctor’s appointments and the like I use the the macOS calendar app—actually Fantastical … Continue reading →

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Emacs 26 Pretest #2

Posted on 2018-01-22 by jcs

Nicolas Petton has announced that Emacs pretest 26.0.91 is out and available for testing. It’s the second pretest for the upcoming Emacs 26.1. If you don’t mind living on the edge a little, give it a try and help out … Continue reading →

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Twenty Bash Tricks

Posted on 2018-01-21 by jcs

Most, if not all, developers make heavy use of a shell even if, like me, they run those shells from within Emacs or some other editor. There are lots of shells, of course, but the default these days is almost … Continue reading →

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Redditor-mode

Posted on 2018-01-20 by jcs

For those of you who are active on reddit, Matthew Carter has written redditor-mode. It allows you to browse reddit from the comfort of Emacs. That’s one more task that can be moved into Emacs. It’s not yet in Melpa … Continue reading →

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The New Luddites on iPhone Addiction

Posted on 2018-01-19 by jcs

Farhad Manjoo writing for the New York Times has a particularly silly article on “Tech addiction” and how it’s up to Apple to fix it. The Apple part is the usual Tech Press anti-Apple nonsense. Given that Apple has a … Continue reading →

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