Category Archives: General

Zamansky 81: Elfeed-webkit

Posted on 2023-06-28 by jcs

He’s back! After a long hiatus, Mike Zamansky has returned with another video in his Using Emacs Series. For those of you not following along, Zamansky recently retired and has gained a second wind. He has a series on using … Continue reading →

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Org Attach Video

Posted on 2023-06-27 by jcs

Over at the Emacs Elements Channel, there’s a new video on using Org mode attach. For those of you aren’t familiar with the attach facility, the idea is that you can attach one or more files to an org heading. … Continue reading →

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Is Org Mode Better For Writers

Posted on 2023-06-26 by jcs

Chris Maiorana has an interesting post that asks if Org mode is better for writers. He starts with the beginning of Ambrose Bierce’s story A Watcher By The Dead displayed in Libre Office and notes that LibreOffice will do everything … Continue reading →

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Phone Calls and Maps from Emacs in macOS

Posted on 2023-06-25 by jcs

Charles Choi has an interesting post on how to make phone calls and bring up a map of a given location from Emacs in the macOS environment. What’s interesting is not that you can do it—it’s Emacs, of course you … Continue reading →

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Golden Ratio Mode

Posted on 2023-06-24 by jcs

There’s a new video over at the Emacs Elements Channel about the Golden Ratio package. The idea, to a first order approximation, is to make the current window—the one having focus—larger so that it is easier to type in. If … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: XEmacs 21.5.35 Released

Posted on 2023-06-23 by jcs

Who knew? It turns out the XEmacs is still a thing. Although until now there’s been no releases since 2013, they have a new Beta release. It’s reasonable to take the position of “Who cares?” but I think it’s always … Continue reading →

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LaTeX Tip For Using Colon In Math Mode

Posted on 2023-06-22 by jcs

The other day, I stumbled across a LaTeX tip over at John Cook’s TeX and Typography feed. For some reason, WordPress won’t let me embed it, so here it is. The Tweet is about why you should use \colon instead … Continue reading →

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Request For Your Garbage Collection Statistics

Posted on 2023-06-21 by jcs

There’s been some discussion lately on the Emacs-devel mailing list about Emacs garbage collection. It’s pretty well known that Emacs GC uses old algorithms and is far from optimal. Part of improving the Emacs GC situation is understanding how the … Continue reading →

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Noweb as glue

Posted on 2023-06-20 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez has a revealing post about using noweb with Org mode in an unusual way. Most of us think of noweb as a way of doing Literate Programming. It enables the insertion of previously named text in another place. … Continue reading →

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The Third Pretest For Emacs 29 Is Available

Posted on 2023-06-19 by jcs

Eli Zaretskii writes to tell us that the Emacs developers have released the third pretest for Emacs 29. If you believe in history, it shouldn’t be long before the release candidates are available and shortly after that Emacs 29.1 itself. … Continue reading →

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