Author Archives: jcs

🥩 Red Meat Friday: Parenthesis In Lisp

Posted on 2025-02-07 by jcs

I love Lisp. I think it’s the perfect language for a very wide variety of problems, that it’s powerful, easy to learn, and that it provides the perfect environment for what I call exploratory programming. There are some downsides. One … Continue reading →

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Elisp To Python Cheatsheat

Posted on 2025-02-06 by jcs

Irreal has often commented on the work of Charles Choi, most recently on his Casual App Suite. Choi has just published a nice cheatsheet for Python programmers who want to write in Elisp. The idea is to compare the various … Continue reading →

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Magit 4.3.0

Posted on 2025-02-05 by jcs

Tarsius (Jonas Bernoulli) has just announced that he’s released Magit 4.3.0. Six months ago, he promised to release a new version every month and this is the sixth such release. Almost everyone loves Magit—there are a few vc holdouts—and considers … Continue reading →

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Emacs Debugging Commands

Posted on 2025-02-04 by jcs

Over at Emacs Redux, Bozhidar Batsov has a nice post on Emacs debugging commands. It’s not the first time that I’ve written about this sort of thing (see here, for instance) but unless you’re actively developing in Elisp, you probably … Continue reading →

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Doing It Yourself

Posted on 2025-02-03 by jcs

James Dyer has a short post on replacing some embark functionality with his own code. He does a nice job and you can check his post for the details but his post again raises the issue of why some users … Continue reading →

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Coming Home To Emacs

Posted on 2025-02-02 by jcs

Joshua Blais has a nice video that recounts an apostate’s repentance. Blais was an Emacs user but moved to Neovim. Users always seem to be switching back and forth between Emacs and Vim. They are, after all, the only two … Continue reading →

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The Experiences Of A Non-technical Emacs User

Posted on 2025-02-01 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a reddit post that asked what computer/OS people were using. Nuno M. Salgueiro replied that he was not a programmer or even in IT but that he used Emacs at home on … Continue reading →

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Casual Image

Posted on 2025-01-31 by jcs

Charles Choi is back with another app in his Casual Suite. This time it’s for dealing with images from within Emacs. As Choi says, there are better ways of dealing with images than from within Emacs but for those of … Continue reading →

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Syncing Orgzly With Emacs

Posted on 2025-01-30 by jcs

One of the goals of many Emacs users is to be able read and write Org entries on their phones or tablets. There are several solutions for this. On the Android platform, one of the most popular was Orgzly. Sadly, … Continue reading →

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Pins And Their Distribution

Posted on 2025-01-29 by jcs

If you’re a reasonably connected person—not geek, person—your smartphone is the gateway to your life. It provides access to your bank accounts and other financial information, your on-line shopping accounts, your contacts, your email and chat history, and all other … Continue reading →

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