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Mickey On What’s New In Emacs 29.1

Posted on 2023-08-12 by jcs

Many—probably most—of you have upgraded to Emacs 29.1 by now. If you’re like me you have a basic idea of what’s changed but don’t wait to read the NEWS file before installing the update. Who can blame us? It’s long … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Learning The Emacs Way

Posted on 2023-08-11 by jcs

It’s easy to be annoyed at N00bs who complain that it’s sooo hard to configure Emacs into a state useful for working with X. Sometimes, a new user will, like domsch1988, try and fail repeatedly to bend Emacs into a … Continue reading →

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Sqlite Mode

Posted on 2023-08-10 by jcs

There was a time when I had a rudimentary proficiency with SQL. I could make updates and rudimentary queries but those days are gone. I haven’t had the need to interact with an SQL database for several years so what … Continue reading →

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An Example of Mode Line Customization

Posted on 2023-08-09 by jcs

The other day I wrote about Protesilaos Stavrou’s video on customization the Emacs mode line. James Dyer saw the video too was inspired to make his own customizations. There’s nothing unusual about that, of course, but I was struck by … Continue reading →

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Zamansky: Learning Elisp #6

Posted on 2023-08-08 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has posted the 6th episode of his Learning Elisp video series. Again, he has split the content into two videos (9 minutes, 4 seconds and 11 minutes, 22 seconds) so as not to have a single overly long … Continue reading →

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What’s New in Emacs 30

Posted on 2023-08-07 by jcs

Emacs 29.1 was just released and most of us are still exploring it’s new features. But time and tide wait for no man and neither, apparently, does Emacs so of course work is already underway on Emacs 30. It seems … Continue reading →

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How To Contribute To Emacs Core

Posted on 2023-08-06 by jcs

Emacs 29 has just been released and as I always do, I thanked the developers who worked so hard to bring it to us. Eli Zaretskii and a handful of others do much of the heavy lifting but there are … Continue reading →

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Emacs As A Window Manager

Posted on 2023-08-05 by jcs

I just ran across a post from the estimable Howard Abrams on using Emacs as a window manager. There are two dates on the post, 2015-01-12 and 2023-01-11, so I’m not sure of its birthdate but either way the post … Continue reading →

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REPL Driven Programming

Posted on 2023-08-04 by jcs

I’ve written many times about what I call “exploratory” or “interactive” programming. The idea is you build your program from the bottom up, trying out expressions, building them into larger and larger units until you have a whole program. For … Continue reading →

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Exporting Clock Tables

Posted on 2023-08-03 by jcs

After watching Jake B’s video on Org Clock Tables and Irreal’s commentary on it, The Emacs Cat decided to share how he uses clock tables. His use is very idiosyncratic and fashioned for his specific circumstances. The TL;DR is that … Continue reading →

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