Category Archives: General

Emphasize Org Text With The Mouse

Posted on 2023-08-19 by jcs

Here’s a short tip for those of you who are mouseketeers as well as Emacs users. As regular readers know, I eschew the mouse as much as I can but others disagree. It is, after all, a matter of taste … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Why Vim?

Posted on 2023-08-18 by jcs

This is Irreal rising in defense of Vim. That may seem strange for an Emacs-centric blog but I’ve always said Vim and Emacs are the two best editors and which one you choose depends on whether you want a lightweight, … Continue reading →

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Zamansky: Learning Elisp #7

Posted on 2023-08-17 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has posted the seventh episode of his Learning Elisp video series. In the last set of videos, he showed how to code a Rot13 function in Elisp. This video begins a new project: automatically producing function header comments. … Continue reading →

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Writing Prose In Emacs

Posted on 2023-08-16 by jcs

Charles Choi has another great post; this time it’s on Tuning Emacs to Write Prose in Org and Markdown. The post is about how he configures Emacs for writing prose. I agree with roughly half his suggestions but this is … Continue reading →

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The Emacs Mark

Posted on 2023-08-15 by jcs

I just stumbled across an Emacs Elements video from 9 months ago. It’s about the Emacs mark and how to use it. There are lots of videos about this and Irreal has commented on some of them but it’s one … Continue reading →

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Plainorg Pricing

Posted on 2023-08-14 by jcs

I’ve written about Álvaro Ramírez and his Emacs projects many times. He’s produced some impressive Emacs apps that many of us take advantage of. Like me, Ramírez is an Apple user and he has also written some iOS apps that … Continue reading →

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Emacs Text Sorting

Posted on 2023-08-13 by jcs

Susam Pal has an excellent post on sorting text in Emacs. Most experienced Emacers have probably seen most of the methods he talks about but unless you use them all the time, it’s easy to forget them. This post is … Continue reading →

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Mickey On What’s New In Emacs 29.1

Posted on 2023-08-12 by jcs

Many—probably most—of you have upgraded to Emacs 29.1 by now. If you’re like me you have a basic idea of what’s changed but don’t wait to read the NEWS file before installing the update. Who can blame us? It’s long … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Learning The Emacs Way

Posted on 2023-08-11 by jcs

It’s easy to be annoyed at N00bs who complain that it’s sooo hard to configure Emacs into a state useful for working with X. Sometimes, a new user will, like domsch1988, try and fail repeatedly to bend Emacs into a … Continue reading →

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Sqlite Mode

Posted on 2023-08-10 by jcs

There was a time when I had a rudimentary proficiency with SQL. I could make updates and rudimentary queries but those days are gone. I haven’t had the need to interact with an SQL database for several years so what … Continue reading →

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