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Prompting With The Interactive Command

Posted on 2024-03-20 by jcs

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 →

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A Simple Macro

Posted on 2024-03-19 by jcs

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 →

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Narrowing To Focus

Posted on 2024-03-18 by jcs

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 →

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BSD

Posted on 2024-03-17 by jcs

Over at Abort Retry Fail there’s a very nice and comprehensive history and discussion of BSD Unix. I’m pretty familiar with most of this history but the article mentions some things that were new to me. A good case can … Continue reading →

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Emacs Wow

Posted on 2024-03-16 by jcs

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 →

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Red Meat Friday: Avoid The Mouse

Posted on 2024-03-15 by jcs

_nambiar has a short video on how painful it is to watch people use other editors and reach for the mouse every time they want to do some navigation or select text. He’s an Emacs user but his message will … Continue reading →

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More On The Emacs World Time Clock

Posted on 2024-03-14 by jcs

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 →

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Org-linker

Posted on 2024-03-13 by jcs

I’ve had this in my queue for a while but I wanted to try it out before I wrote about it. Sadly, I just haven’t had the time and probably won’t in the immediate future. Therefore, I’m writing about it … Continue reading →

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Boeing Continues To Founder

Posted on 2024-03-12 by jcs

Boeing was a great company. For many years it defined the aviation industry by designing and building the best aircraft possible. The company thrived in large part because its culture was informed by an engineering ethos. Even their top executives … Continue reading →

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Using Hook Functions

Posted on 2024-03-11 by jcs

Arialdo Martini has a nice post on how to configure and use Emacs hook functions. Most Emacs users have a general idea about hook functions but Martini goes into more detail, especially as concerns their use in major modes. The … Continue reading →

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