Author Archives: jcs

Marks, Bookmarks, and Registers

Posted on 2023-07-04 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has another great video out. This one is about marks, bookmarks, and registers. You can probably guess from the title that the video is mainly about ways of moving around in a file or files efficiently. He … Continue reading →

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Tramp Video

Posted on 2023-07-03 by jcs

Over at Skybert Hacks, Torstein Johansen has a nice video on using Emacs tramp. Although it does sometimes get bad press, Tramp is a gem and a definitely underappreciated feature of Emacs. It also can seem hard to learn—especially when … Continue reading →

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Vanilla Emacs Configuration

Posted on 2023-07-02 by jcs

Emacs Elements has another useful video on a minimal configuration for vanilla Emacs. This is mainly for the new user, of course, but I was struck by how closely it matched my basic configuration. My current init.el is about 2,500 … Continue reading →

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How Many Years Have You Been Using Emacs?

Posted on 2023-07-01 by jcs

Tuhdo asks a question on the Emacs reddit: How many years have you been using Emacs? On the one hand it seems like the answer should be “who cares?” but I found the answers revealing. Those answers ranged from “about … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Dark R Sessions in ESS

Posted on 2023-06-30 by jcs

lf_araujo has a question: How to fix too dark R session colors in ESS (right pane)? by u/lf_araujo in emacs You know what the Minions would say.

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Emacs and Standard Manuscript Format

Posted on 2023-06-29 by jcs

I ran across this video from a year ago by Chris Maiorana on using Emacs as a typewriter. By that he means producing a publishing industry standard format manuscript for your fiction. The trick is to use the sffms LaTeX … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 81: Elfeed-webkit

Posted on 2023-06-28 by jcs

He’s back! After a long hiatus, Mike Zamansky has returned with another video in his Using Emacs Series. For those of you not following along, Zamansky recently retired and has gained a second wind. He has a series on using … Continue reading →

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Org Attach Video

Posted on 2023-06-27 by jcs

Over at the Emacs Elements Channel, there’s a new video on using Org mode attach. For those of you aren’t familiar with the attach facility, the idea is that you can attach one or more files to an org heading. … Continue reading →

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Is Org Mode Better For Writers

Posted on 2023-06-26 by jcs

Chris Maiorana has an interesting post that asks if Org mode is better for writers. He starts with the beginning of Ambrose Bierce’s story A Watcher By The Dead displayed in Libre Office and notes that LibreOffice will do everything … Continue reading →

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Phone Calls and Maps from Emacs in macOS

Posted on 2023-06-25 by jcs

Charles Choi has an interesting post on how to make phone calls and bring up a map of a given location from Emacs in the macOS environment. What’s interesting is not that you can do it—it’s Emacs, of course you … Continue reading →

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