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Red Meat Friday: Once More Unto The Breach

Posted on 2023-07-14 by jcs

You can talk about your Vi versus Emacs, spaces versus tabs, or any of the other religious wars that infect tech but none are so widespread as the proper number of spaces at the end of a sentence. I’ve seen … Continue reading →

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A Notmuch Workflow

Posted on 2023-07-13 by jcs

As most of you know, I’m a Mu/Mu4e user and have been very happy with it. It has, I think, the correct paradigm for handling stored email: everything goes into a single repository and emails are retrieved with its outstanding … Continue reading →

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Emacs Calendar Navigation

Posted on 2023-07-12 by jcs

Over at the Emacs Elements Channel there’s an interesting video on navigating the Emacs calendar. I was excited when I saw it because although I seldom or never interact with the Emacs calendar, I often use its Org mode lookalike. … Continue reading →

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Emacs For Common Lisp

Posted on 2023-07-11 by jcs

Susam has a very nice Githup repository that contains an Emacs configuration for working with Common Lisp. The nice thing is that the README contains a complete explanation of what the configuration is doing and has a line-by-line exegesis of … Continue reading →

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Media Progress

Posted on 2023-07-10 by jcs

Dmitriy Pshonko has an interesting project for those of us who like to (a) stay in Emacs and (b) use the mpv media player. The idea is that you can list your media files with dired and it will tell … Continue reading →

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Duplicating Dired Files

Posted on 2023-07-09 by jcs

I ran across a post by James Dyer, Dired Duplicate Here Revisited, that was interesting and I thought was worth writing about but I wasn’t sure there was enough there for a post. Then I saw this post by Álvaro … Continue reading →

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Emacs Defaults

Posted on 2023-07-08 by jcs

Charles Choi has another thought provoking post: this time it’s about Emacs defaults. He begins by noting that Emacs exemplifies the idea that you should separate policy and mechanism by providing a mechanism but leaving the actual policy to the … Continue reading →

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Zamansky Elisp Video #1

Posted on 2023-07-07 by jcs

The first video in Mike Zamansky’s promised series on Elisp has dropped. This video serves as an introduction to the series. It mostly positions Emacs as a Lisp interpreter that comes with an editor. Or as Irreal is fond of … Continue reading →

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A Nice Dark Theme

Posted on 2023-07-06 by jcs

The Minions aren’t going to like me saying this but I’ve stumbled upon a nice and actually legible dark theme. idlip Dilip has a new, high-contrast theme, Haki, that started with Prot’s modus-vivendi and some of Daniel Mendler’s packages to … Continue reading →

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The Eshell Manual

Posted on 2023-07-05 by jcs

As many of you know, I’m a big fan of Eshell and use it was my main shell. The traditional gripe about it has always been that there’s no manual. John Wiegley, who wrote Eshell, offered to write a manual … Continue reading →

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