Author Archives: jcs

Over at Bicycle For Your Mind, macosxguru reports that despite his good intentions to stop tweaking his configuration and absorb what he already had installed, he found that there were so many excellent new packages that he had to add … Continue reading →

Eric MacAdie has a contribution to this month’s Emacs Carnival that talks about his major mistake in learning and using Emacs. That “mistake”, he says, was not embracing Emacs completely when he was introduced to it. Instead, he learned only … Continue reading →

A couple of years ago, I wrote about Chris Maiorana’a post suggesting that writers adopt a one-line-per-sentence workflow. You can read his post on the matter to see his arguments on why. At the time, I wrote that I used … Continue reading →

A couple of months ago, I wrote about friction in saving files. Emacs, of course, tries to protect you from unsaved buffers by periodically backing them up to a special file. Recovering data from that file can be a bit … Continue reading →

That didn’t take long. After yesterday’s post on adapting Bozhidar Batsov’s delete-surrounding-pair function to handle Org markup, Batsov is back with a post on surround.el, a port of surround.vim from Michael Kleehammer. The point of delete-surrounding-pair was to (sort of) … Continue reading →