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Initial Thoughts On Journelly

Yesterday, I explained why I think Journelly will be useful to me. Today, I want to follow up with my initial impressions of the app. As I wrote before, I recently signed up for the Journelly beta and have been … Continue reading

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Why I’m Interested In Journelly

Over at The Art Of Not Asking Why, JTR suspects that I may be an apostate, or at least that I’m inconsistent. He notes, correctly, that I’m all in on Emacs in general and Org mode in particular, and yet … Continue reading

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Use GNU Emacs : The Plain Text Computing Environment

I just came across a link to this recently updated book on the plain text computing environment. It was, apparently, first written to describe Emacs 19.29 around 1997. That was a long time ago and Emacs has evolved considerably since … Continue reading

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Emacs Redux On Flyspell

Here’s yet another post commenting on something that Bozhidar Batsov wrote on Emacs Redux. I like to write about his posts because they typically look at some Emacs functionality that we all thought we knew about and tells us things … Continue reading

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France Makes The Right Choice

Some Americans like to make fun of the French but they’ve recently shown that they’ve got it together a lot more than many governments. The EFF is reporting that France recently rejected a backdoor mandate greatly desired by the Interior … Continue reading

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Journelly Review

I’ve written a couple of times about Álvaro Ramírez’s Journelly [1, 2] and how it seemed like a good fit for my memo book needs. In the last of those posts, Ramírez announced that he was starting an official beta … Continue reading

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Configuring Emacs Garbage Collection

Bozhidar Batsov has posted another in his long list of informative Emacs posts. This time, it’s about configuring Emacs garbage collection. The principal way of doing that is to set gc-cons-threshold to a higher value than its default of 80000. … Continue reading

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Standing Up To Patent Trolls

Everybody here knows that Irreal doesn’t hold patent trolls in high regard. That’s me showing restraint. What I actually think is that they’re parasites that should wiped off the face of the earth in service of improving the commonweal. Still, … Continue reading

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Smoother Scrolling

Over at The MKat, Marie K. Ekeberg has a post that brings me back to my earliest days of using Emacs. Before I was assimilated, I tried several times to warm up to Emacs but it wouldn’t take. Ekeberg’s post … Continue reading

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Save Early And Often

Back in the bad old days when personal computers weren’t nearly as reliable as they are today, it was common to have your computer crash when you were right in the middle of writing a document. Because of that, a … Continue reading

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