Author Archives: jcs

Back in the bad old days when personal computers weren’t nearly as reliable as they are today, it was common to have your computer crash when you were right in the middle of writing a document. Because of that, a … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, weevyl talks about how Emacs completion changed his life. Or at least his Emacs life. His story is about his repeated efforts to move to Emacs and always failing. He finally realized that the reason … Continue reading →

Over that the Emacs reddit, arni_ca asks about key bindings for cursor movement. It’s not quite clear what he’s asking but the theme is moving the cursor without bindings like Ctrl+f, Ctrl+b, Meta+f, Meta+b, Ctrl+n, and Ctrl+p. As is often … Continue reading →

I’ve written before about relative line numbers. The idea is to label the current line as 0 and the other lines as positive or negative offsets from it. It’s handy if you want to quickly move to another line. As … Continue reading →

The other day, in response to my The Power Of Elfeed post, René Trappel wrote to me offline about his Elfeed package that enables content search. He calls his package “Cuckoo Search” for reasons you can discover at his Github … Continue reading →

For a very long time I’ve been using swiper-isearch in place of the default isearch because I like the way it lists the results in the minibuffer, lets you scroll through them, and pick the result you want On the … Continue reading →

As you all know, I’m fascinated by non-technical people who use Emacs. You probably also know that I have profound dislike of Google and especially their Docs suite, which brings together everything we hate about Word with surveillance and censorship. … Continue reading →

Lars Ingebrigtsen has an interesting post on his EWP his package for publishing blog posts to WordPress. I’m a long term Org2blog user and really like it but, sadly, my host provider, that I’ve been with for many years, no … Continue reading →