Category Archives: General

Sending HTML Mail With Mu4e

Posted on 2021-01-27 by jcs

Like all right thinking people, I abhor HTML emails but that’s a ship that sailed long ago and there’s not much choice other than grudging acceptance. The virtuous can, of course, continue to send plain text but sometimes your content … Continue reading →

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Modernizing Emacs (Again)

Posted on 2021-01-26 by jcs

I cry out in despair, “For the love of Cthulhu, not again.” And yet my pleas go unanswered. LWN has an article on the latest iteration of “Hey kids! Let’s make Emacs more modern.” that keeps reappearing on the Emacs-devel … Continue reading →

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Editing Anki Cards with Org Mode

Posted on 2021-01-25 by jcs

I have a post in the queue that discusses spaced repetition and how to use Anki to realize it. Emacs, of course, has org-drill, which by all reports is an excellent implementation of spaced repetition but suffers from not being … Continue reading →

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Using Emacs & Org in College (Programming) Assignments

Posted on 2021-01-24 by jcs

If you’re an experienced Emacser, the idea of using Emacs everywhere—including for school assignments—is second nature. Of course, not everyone is an experienced user. Some, like Seshal Jain, discover Emacs in the course of their studies and evolve their workflows … Continue reading →

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The New Luddites at Their Most Malignant

Posted on 2021-01-23 by jcs

I didn’t have a topic in mind for today’s post so I looked through my list of potential blog topics. It turns out that there were lots of pending topics but seeing this Substack article from last October rekindled the … Continue reading →

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Rmail

Posted on 2021-01-22 by jcs

As you all know, I handle my email with mu4e and am very happy with it. But it’s not the only possibility. Notmuch and Gnus are popular choices but there’s also the builtin Rmail. It doesn’t get a lot of … Continue reading →

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Org To Beamer

Posted on 2021-01-21 by jcs

One of the easiest and most popular methods of making presentation slides is reveal.js, which exports your slides as HTML so that you can display them with any browser. Sometimes, though, you want to produce your slides as PDFs and … Continue reading →

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A Symbolics and Space Cadet Keyboard

Posted on 2021-01-20 by jcs

If you’re a certain type of geek, especially a certain type of Emacs geek, you likely share a dream with the rest of your tribe: having a Symbolics or a Space Cadet keyboard. I’ve written about that before but now … Continue reading →

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System Crafters: Using Mu4e

Posted on 2021-01-19 by jcs

David Wilson has another video up in his series on configuring and using mu4e to handle email from within Emacs. His past videos have already covered the hard parts of configuring mu4e and mbsync. The current video is about using … Continue reading →

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Knuth on Writing

Posted on 2021-01-18 by jcs

Philip Kiely has an interesting interview with Don Knuth that concentrates on the writing aspects of Knuth’s career. Everyone knows about The Art of Computer Programming (AOCP) and TeX but Kiely’s interview drills down on why things are the way … Continue reading →

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