Author Archives: jcs

Installing By Default With =use-package=

Posted on 2025-01-14 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov has a handy tip in his latest post. He, like me, organizes the package management of his init.el around use-package. It works well for him but he has a complaint. He almost always wants to install the packages … Continue reading →

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Watch Duty

Posted on 2025-01-13 by jcs

As most of you know, I’m an Apple user so Six Colors, a site dedicated to Apple news, is in my feed. I just noticed this article about Watch Duty, an app that tracks wild fire information and makes it … Continue reading →

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Class Notes In Emacs: Teachers’ Edition

Posted on 2025-01-12 by jcs

I’ve written in the past on my astonishment about people who are able to take mathematics class notes in LaTeX fast enough to keep up with the instructor: 1, 2, and 3. Some people who do this use Emacs, some … Continue reading →

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Converting Markdown to Org

Posted on 2025-01-11 by jcs

Charles Choi has a handy tip on converting from Mardown to Org. My first thought was that I don’t care about this because I write everything in Org Mode and never use Markdown. But then it occurred to me that … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Notepad Vs. Emacs

Posted on 2025-01-10 by jcs

Of all the pretenders to the Emacs crown, notepad strikes me as the most ludicrous. I am not, apparently, the only one. This cartoon captures my feelings exactly. The Emacs haters were, of course, out in force trying to deflect … Continue reading →

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Using Ediff On Regions

Posted on 2025-01-09 by jcs

One of the Emacs powerhouses is Ediff. Every time I think I’ve found a better way of comparing files, it turns out that I just didn’t understand Ediff well enough. It can seem intimidating but as Prot informed me it … Continue reading →

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Extracting Email Addresses

Posted on 2025-01-08 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has a late Christmas present for us but, as they say, better late than never. This particular present is another video in his Using Emacs series. In this video he considers the problem of extracting all email address … Continue reading →

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Shopping Lists With Emacs

Posted on 2025-01-07 by jcs

Kris Carta has a nice post on a problem we all have: handling grocery shopping lists. If you’re single and a geek, this is not a problem. All sorts of solutions suggest themselves. The problem comes when you have a … Continue reading →

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Recognizing Repeated Tasks In The Org Agenda

Posted on 2025-01-06 by jcs

Thanks to Alex Popescu for pointing me to this nice post from Wai Hon about marking repeated tasks in the agenda listing. Why would you want to do that? Han explains it in his post: if you mark a repeated … Continue reading →

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Freewrite Mode

Posted on 2025-01-05 by jcs

As most of you know by now, I have a fascination with how non-technical people use Emacs. I’m particularly interested in how writers use it. Certainly there are some world class writers who use (or used) Emacs: Neal Stephenson and … Continue reading →

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