Category Archives: General

A Unix/Emacs Blast From The Past

Posted on 2026-02-26 by jcs

Although many of us won’t admit it, we all enjoy a bit of nostalgia. Here’s some from 20 to 25 years ago. Kids today™, they don’t know how good they have it. There’s a tendency to romance the “powerful” workstations … Continue reading →

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Dark Sky Redux

Posted on 2026-02-25 by jcs

I have to admit to being a bit of a weather nerd. Florida, of course, has very active weather—especially in the Summer—so some of my obsession is self preservation but I also follow the weather where family members reside and … Continue reading →

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Elisp Pre-commit Hooks

Posted on 2026-02-24 by jcs

Another short post today but one that some of you may find useful. Over at the Emacs subreddit, James Cherti offers a set of commit hooks for Elisp programmers. There are hooks that check for parenthesis consistency, byte compile to … Continue reading →

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Org 9.8

Posted on 2026-02-23 by jcs

Ihor Radchenko writes to tell us about the release of Org Mode 9.8. It’s a pretty big release as you can see from the Changes file. It’s much too long to list the changes here and, of course, not everyone … Continue reading →

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Flycheck 36

Posted on 2026-02-22 by jcs

Note: As I was preparing tomorrow’s post, I noticed that I forgot to publish today’s. Sorry. Here it is, better late than never. Over at Meta Redux, Bozhidar Batsov has announced the release of Flycheck 36. It has, he says, … Continue reading →

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A Case In Point

Posted on 2026-02-21 by jcs

The fates are still punishing me for leaving home for travel. Today I had two errands to run: Renew a driver license Return an unused TV set top box to my provider The DMV is, of course, a red flag … Continue reading →

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Disaster At The Bunker

Posted on 2026-02-20 by jcs

I returned home Wednesday night to discover that the minions, far from guarding the bunker, had been enjoying a nonstop Bacchanalia and that the bunker had been without Internet connectivity for a couple of days. I should have known something … Continue reading →

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Using –init-directory To Debug

Posted on 2026-02-19 by jcs

The standard advice people get when they complain about some bug or difficulty with Emacs is to restart it with -q or -Q to see if the problem persists. The problem with that advice is that the difficulty may be … Continue reading →

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Bending Emacs 11: Winpulse

Posted on 2026-02-18 by jcs

Last week I wrote about Álvaro Ramírez’s new Winpulse package. The purpose of the package is to flash the window receiving focus when you use the other-window command. I wrote that I chose a different solution—changing the color of the … Continue reading →

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Let’s Play How Big Is Your Emacs Config?

Posted on 2026-02-17 by jcs

Speaking of things that don’t matter at all , over at the Emacs reddit, reddit_enjoyer_47 wants to know how big our init.el files are. Despite my dismissal of the question as of no importance, it turns out that the answers … Continue reading →

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