Category Archives: General

Remember Remember Mode?

Posted on 2026-09-30 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, BBSnek writes about discovering remember mode. It’s been around for a long time. I remember using it before Org mode. Indeed, I still use Ctrl+c r to invoke org-capture because that was what I was … Continue reading →

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Aquí Location Finder

Posted on 2026-09-29 by jcs

Charles Choi has been writing a bunch of nice little apps lately—more than I can cover. His latest, Aquí, is sort of a niche application but is potentially useful for more than just its intended use. The back story is … Continue reading →

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A Nice Example Of An Embark Action

Posted on 2026-09-28 by jcs

As I wrote back in July, although I’ve had Embark installed for some time, I’ve only just begun to really use it. Most of my uses involve following a link (of any type) and acting on a group of files, … Continue reading →

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Outlook To Emacs

Posted on 2026-09-27 by jcs

One of the most common complaints I see from Les Misérables who are stuck in a corporate environment mandating the use of the horrific Outlook for email is that it’s very difficult or impossible to deal with it from within … Continue reading →

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Copy Only What You See

Posted on 2026-09-26 by jcs

Over at Emacs Dwelling, James Dyer has a nice post on capturing only the visible portion of a folded Org region. When you call kill-ring-save (Meta+w) on a folded region, it will capture everything to the kill ring—even the hidden … Continue reading →

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Quick Look For Emacs

Posted on 2026-09-25 by jcs

A quick look at a Quick Look for Emacs from Charles Choi. MacOS has the notion of a Quick Look to peek at a file without invoking a heavier weight application such as an editor. It’s more than just dumping … Continue reading →

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Confirm-kill-emacs

Posted on 2026-09-24 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, Danrobi1 opines that since the advent of use-short-answers, confirm-kill-emacs should be a boolean. His idea is that confirm-kill-emacs should merely specify whether to ask for confirmation or not and let use-short-answers choose the the particular … Continue reading →

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Practical Engineering

Posted on 2026-09-23 by jcs

A while ago, a new site popped up in my feed. That site was Practical Engineering. I didn’t know how it got into my feed until I started to write this post. When I checked, I discovered that I was … Continue reading →

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The Replacement Continues

Posted on 2026-09-22 by jcs

I’ve written several times before—the latest time here— about the pernicious effect that advertising can have on a company. I’m not talking about a company advertising itself and its products. Rather, I’m referring to the increasingly common practice of allowing … Continue reading →

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Unicode Version 18.0

Posted on 2026-09-21 by jcs

I’ve always been awed by Unicode and in particular its UTF-8 encoding that does the seemingly impossible: representing virtually every possible character in every language while still being compatible with ASCII. That means that UTF-8 text containing only the “standard” … Continue reading →

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