Category Archives: General

A Nice Example of Emacs Keyboard Macros

Posted on 2021-12-29 by jcs

Just a quickie today. Bill over at ATMakers has a short video on Why He Uses Emacs. It’s actually a nice example of using keyboard macros to convert raw data into the required form. I like it because it’s a … Continue reading →

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Emacs Markdown Mode

Posted on 2021-12-28 by jcs

Timothy Unkert is an Emacs user but prefers to use Markdown over Org-mode. He’s posted a video that describes using Markdown in Emacs. I’m very much a “different strokes for different folks” type of guy as the Hippies used to … Continue reading →

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Running Asynchronous Processes in Eshell

Posted on 2021-12-27 by jcs

Nacho Barrientos has an interesting video in which he explains how to run an eshell process in the background. Barrientos illustrates this with the sleep command. Normally, if you enter sleep 4 in Eshell, Emacs will hang until sleep completes … Continue reading →

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The Sam Editor

Posted on 2021-12-26 by jcs

I’ve used most of the traditional editors. By “traditional” I mean editors like ed, ex, vi/vim, Emacs, Acme, and even—back in the day—brief. One editor I’ve never tried is Sam. Sam, like Acme, was written by Rob Pike so if … Continue reading →

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Exporting Math to Word or LibreOffice

Posted on 2021-12-25 by jcs

Any of you with an even fleeting familiarity with Irreal know that we are not fans of Word and its evil siblings. Still, even though our official position is that Word—in all its incarnations—is the spawn of the Devil, we … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: The Oxford Comma

Posted on 2021-12-24 by jcs

There’s a particularly odious type of reprobate who refuses to use the Oxford comma. A subset of the type can claim ignorance as a mitigating factor but, sadly, the majority of the transgressors do so with full knowledge and understanding … Continue reading →

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Emacs TIL

Posted on 2021-12-23 by jcs

Junji Zhi has a newish (since September) blog that he calls Emacs TIL. As the name suggests, it’s a collection of small tips that Zhi learned on any particular day. The tips are all short—one or two minute reads—and easy … Continue reading →

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Exporting Environments From Org-mode

Posted on 2021-12-22 by jcs

This is a followup to yesterday’s post on Nicolas P. Rougier’s notebook-mode. When I was going through the code trying to understand how everything worked I noticed that the Org source code had a #+begin_sidefig / #+end_sidefig environment that mapped … Continue reading →

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A Beautiful Example of Literate Programming In Org-mode

Posted on 2021-12-21 by jcs

Look at this! Literate programming in #emacs using org mode and org babel. pic.twitter.com/AOpYwpnmq7 — Nicolas P. Rougier (@NPRougier) December 20, 2021 Despite my protestations of being all-digital / all-day, I’m a sucker for this type of thing. It’s just … Continue reading →

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Input Methods

Posted on 2021-12-20 by jcs

Mickey Petersen has another great post up at Mastering Emacs. In the post, Mickey notes that Emacs 29 is going to have first class support for emoji. I don’t use emoji much so I don’t care but Mickey’s post was … Continue reading →

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