Category Archives: General

Red Meat Friday: The Law of Unintended Consequences

Posted on 2023-05-19 by jcs

When I added this item to my blog queue, I marked it as a Red Meat Friday post but now that I’m actually writing it, I’m having second thoughts. That’s because there’s nothing really controversial here. Everyone agrees—or should agree—with … Continue reading →

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Org Footnote Assistant

Posted on 2023-05-18 by jcs

Andrea Lazzarini has an interesting, small package to help with footnote creation and editing in Org buffers. The package offers some amenities such as easily moving between footnotes but, to me, the major win is displaying or editing a footnote … Continue reading →

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A Slight Isearch Improvement

Posted on 2023-05-17 by jcs

Today’s post is a quick and simple tip from Zachary Kanfer on improving isearch. He likes the way isearch finds its results incrementally but is unhappy with the lack of context concerning the number of results found at each step. … Continue reading →

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Devil Mode

Posted on 2023-05-16 by jcs

Lots of people recommend Evil mode or switching to a Dvorak keyboard because it allows for more efficient editing. Evil mode is probably more efficient and, more importantly, helps with RSI problems. As a long term Vi/Vim user, those bindings … Continue reading →

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The Second Emacs 29.1 Pretest

Posted on 2023-05-15 by jcs

Eli Zaretskii writes to say that the second pretest of Emacs 29.1 is available for testing. If you don’t mind living a bit on the edge, Zaretskii would be grateful for your testing and letting the developers know of any … Continue reading →

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Adding C-DEL To The macOS Keybindings

Posted on 2023-05-14 by jcs

One of the little known but great features of macOS is their support of Emacs keybindings. Although most people don’t know it, this support comes in two parts. The first is that some of the common Emacs bindings such as … Continue reading →

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Diffing With Emacs and Vim

Posted on 2023-05-11 by jcs

Franco Pasut has an instructive post on how to diff files with Vim and Emacs. Both editors have very nice built-in functions to make diffing files easy. I’ve used them both and can attest to their utility. Pasut’s post, Notes … Continue reading →

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Converting an Excel Spreadsheet to an Org Table

Posted on 2023-05-10 by jcs

I no longer use spreadsheets and haven’t for a long time. I don’t think there are any spreadsheet instances on any of my computers and if there are, they are relics from the mists of time. Any spreadsheet operations that … Continue reading →

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Local Abbreviations

Posted on 2023-05-09 by jcs

Abbreviations are a useful Emacs feature. They can do anything from inserting a non-ASCII character to changing “latex” into “LaTeX”. If you do a lot of writing they can be a significant timesaver. If you do any coding, you’re probably … Continue reading →

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Completing Org Links

Posted on 2023-05-08 by jcs

Jeremy Friesen has an interesting post that may teach you a couple of things you didn’t know. Friesen uses Org mode a lot in his writing and everything he writes and has lots of links—both standard and customized—in that writing. … Continue reading →

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