Author Archives: jcs

Measuring Package Load Times

If you’ve ever wondered which packages are slowing down your Emacs load time, Matthias Bloggt has a quick and easy way of finding out. The TL:DR is that he surrounds each package load (really, each section of his config) with … Continue reading →

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Ivy and Internal Org Links

Last month, Ben Maughan wrote a very nice post on how to insert internal Org links. The problem he was solving was that he wants to insert an internal link to one of the headers in his Org file. That’s … Continue reading →

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Revisiting abo-abo’s Refactoring Video

Last year I wrote about abo-abo’s screencast demonstrating a bit of his refactoring workflow. I just ran across it again and it’s so great I want to mention it once more in case some of you haven’t seen it. The … Continue reading →

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Oldies but Goodies Updated—Part 2

This is the second of my two-part post on packages that I find especially useful in my day to day work. I’ve discussed all these packages before but it’s worthwhile bringing them all together as suggestions that others might want … Continue reading →

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Some Oldies but Goodies Updated—Part 1

About 15 months ago, I wrote a post, Some Oldies but Goodies, that talked about some of the packages that I found most useful in my day-to-day work. On rereading that post, I find that it’s aged well in the … Continue reading →

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Decouple Your Phone from Sensitive Accounts

Laura Shin over at Forbes.com offers some excellent advice for safeguarding your sensitive accounts such as bank accounts, Dropbox, cloud storage, and the like. Some of it is the usual sensible advice such as using a password manager that generates … Continue reading →

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An Emacs Tutorial Series

Mickael Kerjean has an interesting series of Emacs tutorials over at his blog. He approaches the tutorials from the point of view of the learning path that he would have liked to follow when he learned Emacs. The tutorials are … Continue reading →

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Pretty Printing and Macroexpanding the Last Sexpression

As Emacs users, we’re always discovering some new feature of our favorite editor. Here’s one that’s so obscure not even John Wiegley was aware of it. Over at the Emacs subreddit, glyfo was showing off a bit of elisp that … Continue reading →

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Should We Abandon PDFs?

Robert Zaremba thinks we should; at least for publications that aren’t going to end up printed on paper. His argument is that PDFs don’t work well on digital screens. He has a point about PDFs not working very well on … Continue reading →

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Nicolas Petton on GTD with Org Mode

Nicolas Petton over at Emacs Café has an excellent post on how he uses Org Mode for Getting Things Done (GTD). You can find many articles that cover this material but I like Petton’s because he shows in detail how … Continue reading →

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