Category Archives: General

Spell Checking Kitchin Style

Posted on 2021-10-09 by jcs

John Kitchin has another video up in his Scimax series. This one is about how he handles spell checking in Scimax. As I watched the video, I thought that his setup was really new and different but it turns out … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Spaces After a Sentence

Posted on 2021-10-08 by jcs

Today’s Red Meat Friday is about the “correct” number of spaces after a sentence. Irreal has written about this before, most recently here, but all of you were familiar with the controversy long before Irreal opined on the matter. Oddly, … Continue reading →

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Playing and Logging a Random Album

Posted on 2021-10-07 by jcs

Garjola Dindi has a delightful blog entry on how he leverages Emacs to enjoy his music. Dindi was nostalgic for the days when listening to music meant putting a vinyl disk on the record player. Back then, the friction of … Continue reading →

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They Don’t Want to Return

Posted on 2021-10-06 by jcs

CNBC has an interesting article about large-organization CEOs’ frustration at trying to get their workers back into the office. Workers have little interest in returning. Part of that is fear of COVID-19, of course, but many, having experienced the freedom … Continue reading →

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Magit 3.3 Released

Posted on 2021-10-05 by jcs

Tarsius (Jonas Bernoulli) has announced the release of Magit 3.3.0. The link takes you to his GitHub repository Change Log that has a detailed list of changes. If you want the TL;DR, you can check out his blog entry about … Continue reading →

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Kitchin on Elisp Data Structures

Posted on 2021-10-04 by jcs

John Kitchin has another video up on his Scimax Channel. This time, it’s about elementary Elisp data structures and their manipulation. He considers Strings Lists Vectors Alists Plists Hash tables Strings aren’t really a data structure in the sense of … Continue reading →

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Inspired Python

Posted on 2021-10-03 by jcs

All Irreal readers are, I’m sure, familiar with Mickey Petersen who, in addition to his excellent Emacs site, Mastering Emacs, is also the author of a book by the same name. The articles on his site are among the best … Continue reading →

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Emacs 28 Is Drawing Near

Posted on 2021-10-02 by jcs

Eli Zaretskii writes that he’s cut the release branch for Emacs 28.1 in preparation for the upcoming pretest. He asks that everyone tracking Emacs development switch to the new branch so that it can get as much testing as possible. … Continue reading →

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REPL Driven Programming in Python

Posted on 2021-10-01 by jcs

As many of you know, I’ve long been fascinated with interactive or exploratory programming—what some call REPL driven programming. It’s the idea that you write a bit of code and try it immediately by executing it to see what happens. … Continue reading →

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Org-mode 9.5 Is Out

Posted on 2021-09-30 by jcs

Bastien writes to tell us that Org-mode 9.5 has been released. The big thing about the release is the new citation engine but there are lots of other changes too. You can see what’s in the new release by perusing … Continue reading →

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