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A Deep Dive On Registers

Arialdo Martini is back with a very informative post about using registers to store buffer locations and other data. He starts with positing the need to store buffer locations by name rather than storing them in a ring buffer as … Continue reading

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Writing With Emacs

This post is about another of my browsers tabs that I’ve had open seemingly forever. It’s a curated list of resources for writing with Emacs. As such, it’s a nice coda to my previous post on Emacs writing workflows. It’s … Continue reading

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An Emacs Writing Workflow

I’ve written before about Peter Prevos and his Emacs Writing Studio but here’s a bit more. I’ve had this article about the Emacs writing workflow up in my browser for a long while and decided the time had come to … Continue reading

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Recover Session

I just came across a really interesting post from Tory Anderson. Like me, Anderson lives in Emacs. In fact, since he’s a Linux user and runs exwm, he lives in Emacs even more than I do. Anderson notes that sometime … Continue reading

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Emacs, Org, and Pandoc

I’ve been writing in Org mode for a long time. Every bit of Irreal began life as an Org doc and I have a huge collection of private documents that are also written in Org markup. The killer feature of … Continue reading

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WiFi In The Rain: An April First Story

I may have mentioned before that I always dread April Fools Day. The web is inevitably full of silly stories that start off making a bit of sense but quickly degrade into farce. Predrag Gruevski brings some welcome relief with … Continue reading

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Compiling

I’m an old guy and I’ve been programming for a long time. Virtually all of that programming has involved using a compiler or an assembler. Until I dabbled in AWK, Perl, and Python and started using Giuile, my only use … Continue reading

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The Reddits

As many of you know, I’m a big fan of Paul Graham. He’s the guy who got me interested in Lisp and, by extension, Emacs. There’s a bit of irony there considering that Graham is a Vim user and his … Continue reading

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More On Pangrams

Back in 2020, I wrote a post about the New York Times Spelling Bee puzzle. The TL;DR is that you’re given a list of seven letters, one of which is special. Solving the puzzle involves finding as many words as … Continue reading

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Multiple Editors

Today’s topic is using multiple editors. There’s no reason this should be a red meat topic but it is. People on both sides of the issue think those on the other side are weird. I’ve written about this before and … Continue reading

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