Author Archives: jcs

Fermin gave an interesting talk to the 2023 EmacsConf. The title of the talk was The Emacsen family, the design of an Emacs and the importance of Lisp. He starts with the premise that Lisp is the right language for … Continue reading →

As many of you know, I’ve long been fascinated by those who can write LaTeX at speed. By “at speed” I mean, for example, being able to keep up with a math professor’s lecture in the classroom. It seems almost … Continue reading →

Charles Choi, as we know, likes to have things the way he likes to have them. Being an Emacs user, it’s easy for him to scratch many of those itches. In his latest post, he complains about the inconsistent navigation … Continue reading →

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has an excellent short video that discusses how to use multilingual characters in Emacs. Prot, of course, is Greek and often wants to write Greek in Emacs. You can do that by switching keyboards at the system … Continue reading →

Good news for those of you who been following my posts [1, 2] on Protesilaos Stavrou’s Denote. The changes that I wrote about are now officially available in Version 2.2.0. The two main changes are the ones I wrote about—sorting … Continue reading →

Just a quickie today. Tory Anderson has an interesting post illustrating something that I had no idea existed. You may—especially if you’re an old timer—be familiar with ’’cut marks“. They’re usually used to delimit code that an end user may … Continue reading →

Most Emacs users are probably aware of the current problem with using Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG) with Emacs. The TL;DR is that although you can open GnuPG encrypted files, you can’t edit and resave them. This problem was introduced in … Continue reading →