Author Archives: jcs

Gregory Stein over at Caches to Caches has a nice series on how he uses Emacs to increase his productivity. I’ve written about a couple of those articles (1, 2) already but it’s useful to see the whole series. As … Continue reading →

I’m stuck in my ways and stubborn so even though I use macOS as my primary platform, I have, for years, insisted on compiling all my tools from source myself. The Mac platform has just enough idiosyncrasies to sometimes make … Continue reading →

The Emacs Stack Exchange has an interesting discussion on how to navigate to the nth paragraph in an Emacs document. The original questioner noted that although there is a function to navigate to the \(n^\text{th}\) line, there is no corresponding … Continue reading →

Coffeecupp_ over at the Emacs reddit asks if there’s a way on macOS to prevent Emacs from quitting when the last window is closed. That’s not a problem I have but I learned a couple of useful things from the … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago I saw this nice post on advanced Bash shortcuts over at ${me:-whatever}, If you haven’t seen it, be sure to take a look. Even though I’ve been using Bash for more years than I care … Continue reading →

I just downloaded the latest version mu/mu4e and rebuilt it on my system. That’s a pain because Apple insists on shipping a very old version of Emacs—apparently to avoid GPL 3—and mu4e won’t build because it thinks Emacs is too … Continue reading →