Author Archives: jcs

I’ve written before about messing around with Emacs defaults. The argument from those favoring changes is that Emacs’ conventions are not congruent with modern day standards and thus confuse n00bs. This, is turn, inhibits Emacs uptake by new users. The … Continue reading →

This is just a short PSA. As most of you know, I’m a huge fan of Mu/Mu4e and use it as my main mail client. Lately, I’ve wimped out and rather than building it from source, I’ve been installing it … Continue reading →

Most Emacs users who are at all familiar with Elisp know that you have to specify the interactive command for functions if you want them to be interactive—that is, if you want them to be callable with Meta+x. Most of … Continue reading →

I’ve just had another of my occasional workflow epiphanies where I suddenly realize that some tedious routine task I regularly perform could easily be automated. In this case, only partially automated but one step at a time. Everyday, I take … Continue reading →

Arthur A. Gleckler has a nifty post that discusses Emacs narrowing as a way to help with focus. The TL;DR is that sometimes you want to focus on a piece of code or other text and one way to do … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, dehaticoder asks what things do you do in Emacs that make people say “Wow”. I’m probably an easy mark but I really love this type of post. They’re always enjoyable and sometimes I even learn … Continue reading →

As I’ve written before, Emacs has a world clock. Well, it’s not really a clock: just a list of times in various cities but it’s great for today’s remote work place. If your colleagues are stationed all over the world, … Continue reading →