Author Archives: jcs

One of the first things every writer learns—probably in high school—is to avoid using the same word repeatedly in close proximity to each other. I’m really strict about that to the point where I try to avoid using the same … Continue reading →

Emacs Elements has been vlogging up a storm lately and has another useful video on Emacs line commands. The video covers four Emacs commands that all deal with removing lines from a buffer. The four commands that the video considers … Continue reading →

Emacs Elements has another interesting video up. This time it’s about some useful selection commands from from Xah Lee. The first of these is a command to select the current line. I use Steve Purcell’s whole-line-or-region for this and it’s … Continue reading →

Unduly-noted is a new Emacs user but that didn’t stop him from figuring out how to leverage Emacs to streamline his workflow. The TL;DR is that he wanted to import lectures and ancillary data from a course he was taking … Continue reading →

A couple of months ago, I wrote about Charles Choi’s post on Emacs defaults. Choi had a list of defaults with which he disagreed. I agreed with him on some of list and disagreed on other parts. It was, though, … Continue reading →

If you’re interested in editors or even just Emacs internals you probably know about gap buffers. They’re a way of holding the data being edited so that it can be updated and displayed quickly and easily. It’s not the only … Continue reading →

The first official edition of the ELPA and Emacs Zine has been published. This edition is more concerned with Emacs than ELPA but it’s promising to be a useful resource for Emacs users. The current episode considers the discussion of … Continue reading →

This is a sort of advertisement for EmacsConf 2023. Sacha Chua has published a list of talks and it looks like it’s going to be a really great conference. The list is really useful. It’s not just roster of the … Continue reading →