Category Archives: General

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 →

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 →

Michał Sapka has an interesting post that serves as a nice coda to yesterday’s post on Emacs integrating so many productivity tools. One of those tools is the RSS feed reader, Chris Wellons’ Elfeed. Sapka’s post is about his moving … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, FortunateDaughter_ notes that the Emacs “editor” has all sorts of other productivity tools, such as email, built in and wonders why this is, what was the philosophy behind it, and whether users benefit from it … Continue reading →

I’ve written before about Aimé Bertrand and his Emacs configuration. In particular, I was impressed with the many specialized functions he had to do various UI tweaks. Bertrand is back with another post. This one discusses some of his navigation … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, g_tb has come back to Emacs after trying Neovim, Kate, Helix, and VSCode. None of them met his needs as well as Emacs so he’s back to the one true editor™. Of them all, VSCode … Continue reading →

My name is jcs and I’m an addict. A hopeless addict. Yesterday, in my post about fixing mu4e’s new behavior of opening in full frame mode, I mentioned that upgrading to mu 1.10.3 broke Emacs to the point that it … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago, I upgraded my mail client, Mu/Mu4e, to version 1.10.2 with Homebrew. It has some nice features but it also insisted on opening mu4e in full-frame mode, wiping out whatever window configuration I had. That was … Continue reading →