Author Archives: jcs

Emacs Integration

Posted on 2023-05-06 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, FortunateDaughter_ notes that the Emacs “editor” has all sorts of other productivity tools, such as email, built in and wonders why this is, what was the philosophy behind it, and whether users benefit from it … Continue reading →

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Captee

Posted on 2023-05-05 by jcs

Charles Choi has an application, Captee, in the Mac App store that’s a generalization of my jcs-get-link function. My function inserts an Org link to the currently active page in Safari. I use it constantly when writing blog posts. It … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Reverts To Type

Posted on 2023-05-04 by jcs

Younger Irreal readers whose memories don’t extent beyond the start of the century may be puzzled by my occasional disparaging of Microsoft. After all, they’ve made a point, lately, of reciting all the appropriate open source mantras and cultivating a … Continue reading →

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Some Navigation Functions

Posted on 2023-05-03 by jcs

I’ve written before about Aimé Bertrand and his Emacs configuration. In particular, I was impressed with the many specialized functions he had to do various UI tweaks. Bertrand is back with another post. This one discusses some of his navigation … Continue reading →

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An Apostate Comes Home

Posted on 2023-05-02 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, g_tb has come back to Emacs after trying Neovim, Kate, Helix, and VSCode. None of them met his needs as well as Emacs so he’s back to the one true editor™. Of them all, VSCode … Continue reading →

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A Hopeless Addict

Posted on 2023-05-01 by jcs

My name is jcs and I’m an addict. A hopeless addict. Yesterday, in my post about fixing mu4e’s new behavior of opening in full frame mode, I mentioned that upgrading to mu 1.10.3 broke Emacs to the point that it … Continue reading →

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Fixing Mu4e Forcing Opening In Full Frame

Posted on 2023-04-30 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago, I upgraded my mail client, Mu/Mu4e, to version 1.10.2 with Homebrew. It has some nice features but it also insisted on opening mu4e in full-frame mode, wiping out whatever window configuration I had. That was … Continue reading →

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Using Table Data in a Shell Code Block

Posted on 2023-04-29 by jcs

Just a quickie on a quickie from Grant Rettke. The quickie is an example from Rettke on how to import and use a table in an Org code block using shell. The secret is that the table entries get passed … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Gray on Gray

Posted on 2023-04-28 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, Lalelul wants to know How can I fix hard to read (gray text on gray background) dialog boxe? As soon as I saw it, I deleted the browser tab but I was too late. The … Continue reading →

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On Org Alternatives

Posted on 2023-04-27 by jcs

There’s a phenomenon that I both understand and don’t understand. That phenomenon is happy Emacs or Org users feeling the need to try out every alternative that comes their way. Notice I said “happy” users. If Emacs or Org isn’t … Continue reading →

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