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Undergrad Notes

Posted on 2025-06-23 by jcs

Chris Maiorana has an interesting post on note taking with Emacs. He says that Emacs and, in particular Org mode, have all sorts of functions to make taking notes easier but that it’s easy to get bogged down in trying … Continue reading →

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Running Emacs On Multiple Platforms

Posted on 2025-06-22 by jcs

Many of us run Emacs on multiple platforms. Some, like me, simply run several OSs on our various computers, and some have one system type at work and another at home. Regardless, we all want a one true Emacs configuration … Continue reading →

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How To Live Inside Emacs

Posted on 2025-06-21 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, kudikarasavasa asks a question dear to the hearts of many of us: How did you start living inside Emacs permanently? He says he keeps hearing people say they live inside Emacs and the idea seems … Continue reading →

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Running All Code Blocks In An Org Subtree

Posted on 2025-06-20 by jcs

If you’ve been around the Emacs technical community for a while, you know that Sacha Chua—despite being the mother of a young daughter—is an ever present and incredibly productive member of that community. One of the ways she manages that … Continue reading →

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Markdown Comes To Journelly

Posted on 2025-06-19 by jcs

I’m sure you’ve all missed my Journelly posts. The thing is, it’s working so well for me that I don’t feel the need to comment about every little change but Álvaro Ramírez has just announced Markdown support. That’s nothing that … Continue reading →

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Emacs For Writers Handbook

Posted on 2025-06-18 by jcs

Chris Maiorana has just announced the release of his Emacs for Writers handbook. It’s a 22 page handbook for the writer who would like to escape the confines of “word processors” like Word and its ilk. The handbook doesn’t assume … Continue reading →

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Advice To A New Emacs User

Posted on 2025-06-17 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, Informal-Silver-2810 says he’s been a Vim/NeoVim user for the last 20 years but decided to try Emacs so he committed himself to a month of using only Emacs. As part of that experiment, he asked … Continue reading →

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Becoming An Emacs Power User

Posted on 2025-06-16 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, Cultural_Mechanic_92 asks How did you become an Emacs power user? It is, I suppose, a reasonable question even if the answer is pretty obvious. The comments are interesting but basically boil down to “you’ll learn … Continue reading →

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Reddit And HN Readers

Posted on 2025-06-15 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, iLemming has an interesting video that explores two packages by thanhvg for reading reddit and Hacker News from within Emacs. The two packages are emacs-reddigg and emacs-hnreader. Both packages give you a nice Org buffer … Continue reading →

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“Modern” Keybindings In Emacs

Posted on 2025-06-14 by jcs

Just in case you haven’t heard enough whining about Emacs not having “modern” keybindings, arthurno1 over at the Emacs subreddit has a long post on possible ways to reconfigure Emacs to get them. It’s an interesting post because arthurno1 actually … Continue reading →

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