Author Archives: jcs

A Tip On Reverting A Buffer

Posted on 2023-08-22 by jcs

James Dyer has a quick tip that may be interest you. The issue is reverting buffers. There are several ways of doing this. One is to simply call find-alternate-file (Ctrl+x Ctrl+v). That’s what I always did but there’s the more … Continue reading →

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Development Tips Using Emacs

Posted on 2023-08-21 by jcs

Isa Mert Gurbuz has an interesting post on some of the editing workflow he’s developed over the years for working with Emacs. The bulk of the post demonstrates some of the glue code he’s developed for working with various packages. … Continue reading →

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Transient As A Hydra

Posted on 2023-08-20 by jcs

Most every Magit user is, I’m sure, aware that the Magit menuing system has been refactored into a separate library, transient, that is available for anyone to use. I’m dimly aware that some Elisp projects—although I couldn’t name one off … Continue reading →

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Emphasize Org Text With The Mouse

Posted on 2023-08-19 by jcs

Here’s a short tip for those of you who are mouseketeers as well as Emacs users. As regular readers know, I eschew the mouse as much as I can but others disagree. It is, after all, a matter of taste … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Why Vim?

Posted on 2023-08-18 by jcs

This is Irreal rising in defense of Vim. That may seem strange for an Emacs-centric blog but I’ve always said Vim and Emacs are the two best editors and which one you choose depends on whether you want a lightweight, … Continue reading →

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Zamansky: Learning Elisp #7

Posted on 2023-08-17 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has posted the seventh episode of his Learning Elisp video series. In the last set of videos, he showed how to code a Rot13 function in Elisp. This video begins a new project: automatically producing function header comments. … Continue reading →

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Writing Prose In Emacs

Posted on 2023-08-16 by jcs

Charles Choi has another great post; this time it’s on Tuning Emacs to Write Prose in Org and Markdown. The post is about how he configures Emacs for writing prose. I agree with roughly half his suggestions but this is … Continue reading →

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The Emacs Mark

Posted on 2023-08-15 by jcs

I just stumbled across an Emacs Elements video from 9 months ago. It’s about the Emacs mark and how to use it. There are lots of videos about this and Irreal has commented on some of them but it’s one … Continue reading →

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Plainorg Pricing

Posted on 2023-08-14 by jcs

I’ve written about Álvaro Ramírez and his Emacs projects many times. He’s produced some impressive Emacs apps that many of us take advantage of. Like me, Ramírez is an Apple user and he has also written some iOS apps that … Continue reading →

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Emacs Text Sorting

Posted on 2023-08-13 by jcs

Susam Pal has an excellent post on sorting text in Emacs. Most experienced Emacers have probably seen most of the methods he talks about but unless you use them all the time, it’s easy to forget them. This post is … Continue reading →

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