Author Archives: jcs

Golden Ratio Mode

Posted on 2023-06-24 by jcs

There’s a new video over at the Emacs Elements Channel about the Golden Ratio package. The idea, to a first order approximation, is to make the current window—the one having focus—larger so that it is easier to type in. If … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: XEmacs 21.5.35 Released

Posted on 2023-06-23 by jcs

Who knew? It turns out the XEmacs is still a thing. Although until now there’s been no releases since 2013, they have a new Beta release. It’s reasonable to take the position of “Who cares?” but I think it’s always … Continue reading →

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LaTeX Tip For Using Colon In Math Mode

Posted on 2023-06-22 by jcs

The other day, I stumbled across a LaTeX tip over at John Cook’s TeX and Typography feed. For some reason, WordPress won’t let me embed it, so here it is. The Tweet is about why you should use \colon instead … Continue reading →

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Request For Your Garbage Collection Statistics

Posted on 2023-06-21 by jcs

There’s been some discussion lately on the Emacs-devel mailing list about Emacs garbage collection. It’s pretty well known that Emacs GC uses old algorithms and is far from optimal. Part of improving the Emacs GC situation is understanding how the … Continue reading →

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Noweb as glue

Posted on 2023-06-20 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez has a revealing post about using noweb with Org mode in an unusual way. Most of us think of noweb as a way of doing Literate Programming. It enables the insertion of previously named text in another place. … Continue reading →

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The Third Pretest For Emacs 29 Is Available

Posted on 2023-06-19 by jcs

Eli Zaretskii writes to tell us that the Emacs developers have released the third pretest for Emacs 29. If you believe in history, it shouldn’t be long before the release candidates are available and shortly after that Emacs 29.1 itself. … Continue reading →

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Org Mode Clock Checks

Posted on 2023-06-18 by jcs

I’ve had this in my blog queue for sometime but before I could get to it, Sacha ran with it in her Emacs News post. I was going to forego mentioning it but after my Clocktables post, I decided that … Continue reading →

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Setting Up emacs

Posted on 2023-06-17 by jcs

Will Schenk has a post that may interest some of you. It’s about setting up a new Emacs instance. It’s not that he’s a n00b; he just wants to set up a nice clean instance. You can argue with his … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: A Conversation With An Emacs User

Posted on 2023-06-16 by jcs

A conversation with a typical Emacs user: Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast in 2033 [Colorized] by u/miversen33 in emacs What makes this so funny is that every outrageous statement the protagonist makes is something that we’d agree with. Sort of. … Continue reading →

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The Other Shoe Drops

Posted on 2023-06-15 by jcs

If you’re an inquisitive, rational person and haven’t been assimilated by one of the hive minds, you’ve always known deep down that COVID-19 resulted from a lab leak even if there was not yet any definitive evidence to prove that … Continue reading →

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