Category Archives: General

Org Mode Clock Checks

Posted on 2023-06-18 by jcs

I’ve had this in my blog queue for sometime but before I could get to it, Sacha ran with it in her Emacs News post. I was going to forego mentioning it but after my Clocktables post, I decided that … Continue reading →

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Setting Up emacs

Posted on 2023-06-17 by jcs

Will Schenk has a post that may interest some of you. It’s about setting up a new Emacs instance. It’s not that he’s a n00b; he just wants to set up a nice clean instance. You can argue with his … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: A Conversation With An Emacs User

Posted on 2023-06-16 by jcs

A conversation with a typical Emacs user: Interview with an Emacs Enthusiast in 2033 [Colorized] by u/miversen33 in emacs What makes this so funny is that every outrageous statement the protagonist makes is something that we’d agree with. Sort of. … Continue reading →

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The Other Shoe Drops

Posted on 2023-06-15 by jcs

If you’re an inquisitive, rational person and haven’t been assimilated by one of the hive minds, you’ve always known deep down that COVID-19 resulted from a lab leak even if there was not yet any definitive evidence to prove that … Continue reading →

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Define-keymap

Posted on 2023-06-14 by jcs

Zachary Kanfer has a useful post for those of you who want to reduce to a bare minimum the amount of code you have to write to configure Emacs. Kanfer was bothered by all the boilerplate you have to enter … Continue reading →

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Prot Video on Org Mode

Posted on 2023-06-13 by jcs

After watching and writing about Protesilaos Stavrou’s video on searching and replacing in Emacs, I went back and watched his previous video on Org mode basics. Although I’m late to the party with this post, the video is interesting enough … Continue reading →

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Emacs Elements Video on Narrowing

Posted on 2023-06-12 by jcs

A useful but underused Emacs facility is narrowing. The idea is that you can limit the visibility of a buffer’s text to a region, function, or an Org mode subtree. The rest of the buffer is still there but you … Continue reading →

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Emacs Search and Replace

Posted on 2023-06-11 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has a really, really excellent video on the Emacs search/replace functionality. Except for a short section at the end, it doesn’t consider external packages; it’s about the default functionality. Although Prot says the video considers only the … Continue reading →

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Clocktables

Posted on 2023-06-10 by jcs

Over at the Straightforward Emacs channel, Jake B. has an informative video on Org mode clocktables. Most Org mode users knows that you can clock in and out of Org headings giving you a way of tracking the time you … Continue reading →

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The Old Days

Posted on 2023-06-09 by jcs

I ran across this amazing picture on Massimo, a splendid site that offers several fascinating and unusual tweets a day. If you like being surprised and astounded, give Massimo a look. The picture is of the original IBM hard drive. … Continue reading →

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