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Laas

As many of you know, I’ve long been fascinated by those who can write LaTeX at speed. By “at speed” I mean, for example, being able to keep up with a math professor’s lecture in the classroom. It seems almost … Continue reading

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Document Navigation

Charles Choi, as we know, likes to have things the way he likes to have them. Being an Emacs user, it’s easy for him to scratch many of those itches. In his latest post, he complains about the inconsistent navigation … Continue reading

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Multilingual Editing

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has an excellent short video that discusses how to use multilingual characters in Emacs. Prot, of course, is Greek and often wants to write Greek in Emacs. You can do that by switching keyboards at the system … Continue reading

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Literate Documentation with Emacs and Org Mode

Back in 2019, I wrote about Mike Hamrick’s excellent talk on using Emacs and Org mode for writing technical documents. I’ve mentioned it a couple times since and sometimes watch it again for some of the many great ideas embedded … Continue reading

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Denote 2.2.0 Released

Good news for those of you who been following my posts [1, 2] on Protesilaos Stavrou’s Denote. The changes that I wrote about are now officially available in Version 2.2.0. The two main changes are the ones I wrote about—sorting … Continue reading

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Marking Cut Regions

Just a quickie today. Tory Anderson has an interesting post illustrating something that I had no idea existed. You may—especially if you’re an old timer—be familiar with ’’cut marks“. They’re usually used to delimit code that an end user may … Continue reading

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PSA: The Emacs/GnuPG Problem

Most Emacs users are probably aware of the current problem with using Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG) with Emacs. The TL;DR is that although you can open GnuPG encrypted files, you can’t edit and resave them. This problem was introduced in … Continue reading

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Chrome Atrocities

Metanote: I wasn’t sure if this post really merited being designated a Red Meat Friday item but it is polemical and will doubtless anger some people so I guess it qualifies. As most of you know, we here at Irreal … Continue reading

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Why NYXT Is Programmed In Lisp

NYXT is a browser with a workflow inspired by Emacs and Vim. In particular, it strives to be keyboard driven and use Emacs-like shortcuts to speed and ease navigation. The development team takes this inspiration seriously and uses Common Lisp … Continue reading

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Sorted File Listings in Denote

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) is continuing to add new features to the upcoming release of Denote. The latest changes are about sorted listings of Denote files. Back in November, I wrote about Prot’s work on another new feature: dynamic blocks. Part … Continue reading

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