Category Archives: General

How To Use Tags

Posted on 2022-03-02 by jcs

In response to my post Renaming Tags, Karl Voit pointed me to his recent post on How To Use Tags. He said that his system could solve many of the problems I experience with using tags. It’s a long post … Continue reading →

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Using Paredit’s Slurp and Barf

Posted on 2022-03-01 by jcs

I’ve been using paredit for 11 or 12 years. I don’t use nearly all its features but I still wouldn’t want to live without it. As I discovered early on, the real secret of paredit is understanding slurp and barf. … Continue reading →

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Podcasts with Elfeed and EMMS

Posted on 2022-02-28 by jcs

Arne Babenhauserheide has an interesting post on how he listens to podcasts in Emacs using Elfeed and EMMS. It’s a perfect workflow: the podcast episodes are collected from RSS and listed with Elfeed and those he wants to listen to … Continue reading →

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Renaming Tags

Posted on 2022-02-27 by jcs

Ravi Sagar has a quick video that shows you how to bulk-rename tags in an Org file. If you don’t use tags in your Org files, this probably seems like something you’d hardly ever want to do. Indeed, even Sabar … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Taking Up Space With Metadata

Posted on 2022-02-25 by jcs

Note: For some reason WordPress refused to embed Fraga’s tweet so I had to link to the tweet instead. As you all know by now, I prefer a minimalist approach to my editor screen layout. I want as much screen … Continue reading →

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Six Useful Emacs Settings

Posted on 2022-02-24 by jcs

David Wilson over at the System Crafters Channel has a new video up on The 6 Emacs Settings Every User Should Consider. The six settings are Enable remembering recently edited files Enable minibuffer history Enable remembering last place visited in … Continue reading →

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Guess Who Was Responsible for the Missouri SSN Leak

Posted on 2022-02-23 by jcs

Back in October of last year Irreal recounted the hilarious but sad tale of the Missouri governor trying to press charges against the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for discovering, notifying the state, and then reporting on the fact that a state … Continue reading →

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Why Learn Scheme

Posted on 2022-02-22 by jcs

Back when I was learning Scheme, my go to implementation was DrScheme. It had great libraries, an excellent IDE, ran on Windows, Macs, and Linux, and produced good standalone code. Eventually it drifted away from the Scheme specification and was … Continue reading →

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An Example of RSS Use

Posted on 2022-02-21 by jcs

Chris Hardie is, like me, a believer in RSS and considers it an important protocol that can be used for more than just following blogs. He considers the example of a municipal website that posts information of concern to its … Continue reading →

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The Year 2038 Problem

Posted on 2022-02-20 by jcs

All of you Unix heads know about the coming Unix apocalypse. On January 19, 2038, the 32-bit Unix time variable will overflow and Unix will suddenly think it’s December 13, 1901. Except, of course, virtually all extant Unix systems now … Continue reading →

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