Author Archives: jcs

Customizing Emacs Menus

Posted on 2023-10-28 by jcs

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not a big fan of Emacs menus. That’s mostly because I’m much faster if I can stick to the keyboard and, of course, my general desire to avoid the mouse when I can. Still, I … Continue reading →

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Open Xcode From Emacs At The Same Line

Posted on 2023-10-27 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez has a nice post on opening a file in the macOS Xcode editor from Emacs. There’s nothing unusual about that, of course, but Ramírez’s wrinkle is that he wants Xcode to open at the same line the Emacs … Continue reading →

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Elisp Links

Posted on 2023-10-26 by jcs

In order to be a really proficient Emacs user, you’re going to have to learn at least a little bit of Elisp. As I’ve said before, Elisp is at once both easy and hard to learn. Like all Lisps, there’s … Continue reading →

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Crafted Emacs v2

Posted on 2023-10-25 by jcs

Michael Ashley wrote to tell me that System Crafters has released version 2 of their Crafted Emacs configuration. Irreal readers will be familiar with System Crafters from David Wilson’s System Crafters video series that I’ve written about many times. It … Continue reading →

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Customizing Emacs Journal

Posted on 2023-10-24 by jcs

Rob Streeting has a very interesting post on building the ideal Emacs journal. He was an Org-roam user but discovered that he never seemed to add links to the data he needed later. He began building the ideal journaling system … Continue reading →

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Exploratory Data Analysis With AWK

Posted on 2023-10-23 by jcs

This post is about Brian Kernighan and AWK, two things always worth hearing about. All of you, I’m sure, know that after retiring from Bell Labs, Kernighan took a professorship at his Alma Mater, Princeton. Since he’s been there, Kernighan … Continue reading →

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PlantUML and Org-mode

Posted on 2023-10-22 by jcs

AbstProcDo, like me, is a terrible artist. Sometimes, though, we need to add a diagram to our documentation, report, or Blog post. I usually use Graphviz or, when I’m in Troff mode, Pic for this. But these aren’t the only … Continue reading →

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The find-grep-dired Command

Posted on 2023-10-21 by jcs

Just a quick tip from Ruslan Bekenev: find-grep-dired. It’s a nice way of running grep directly from a Dired buffer. The nice thing, as Bekenev points out is that the result is a filtered Dired listing of all the files … Continue reading →

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Zamansky: Learning Elisp #11

Posted on 2023-10-20 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has returned from his European vacation and is jumping right back into his Learning Elisp video series. The current video is the start of a new project: automatically inserting an Emolji into an Emacs buffer. This video is … Continue reading →

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Emacs 29.2 Pretest

Posted on 2023-10-19 by jcs

Eli writes to tell us that the Emacs 29.1.90, a pretest for Emacs 29.2, is available. It seems like 29.1 was just released and we’re already in the early stages of the Emacs 29.2 release. The point releases are mainly … Continue reading →

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