Category Archives: General

More on Emacs Keybindings in macOS

Posted on 2020-10-07 by jcs

Emacs users on macOS are always discovering that the operating system supports many of the Emacs navigation keybindings and share their discovery with a Tweet or reddit post. Of course, it’s much better than that. You can install most of … Continue reading →

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Research Tools for the Beginner

Posted on 2020-10-06 by jcs

Kieran Haley, a Sociologist at Duke has an interesting paper that provides advice on research tools for beginning graduate students—or perhaps for brand new faculty members—in the social sciences. Haley has a Uses This profile that gives a précis of … Continue reading →

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Introduction to Emacs Profiling

Posted on 2020-10-05 by jcs

After his post on dealing with long lines in Emacs, Alain M. Lafon got a comment complaining that he didn’t mention how to profile the situation. To remedy that, he’s posted a short introduction to profiling in Emacs. If you’re … Continue reading →

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The Webster 1913 Dictionary

Posted on 2020-10-04 by jcs

If you’ve been around for a while, you may remember my Draft #4 post from 5 years ago. That post explained why you’re probably using the wrong dictionary and why the correct dictionary is the Webster 1913 + 1828. The … Continue reading →

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The Types Controversy Explained

Posted on 2020-10-03 by jcs

After yesterday’s heavy duty post on modernizing Emacs, here’s something to refresh your palate. I find this hilarious on many levels. Your mileage may vary: types are social constructs created by Big Compiler to sell more passes — (lambda () … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Modernizing Emacs

Posted on 2020-10-02 by jcs

I originally planned this as a short rant on the idea that Emacs needs to be modernized. The discussion has been raging for a while on the Emacs-devel list but was pretty much inside baseball until an lwn.net article on … Continue reading →

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Long Line Remediation

Posted on 2020-10-01 by jcs

Alain M. Lafon, whom I’ve mentioned several times before (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), has posted a useful guide for dealing with long lines in Emacs. One of Emacs’ well known weaknesses is that it can become very slow when … Continue reading →

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Gnus and Gmail

Posted on 2020-09-30 by jcs

If you’re in the intersection of Gnus and Gmail users, T. V. Raman over at Emacspeak has a bit of Elisp that might interest you. He’s a Gmail user who wants to do Gmail type searches from within Gnus. That … Continue reading →

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An Org Template for Meeting Minutes

Posted on 2020-09-29 by jcs

When I was a Unix n00b, one of the things that really impressed me was the format of the Bell Labs technical memoranda. I especially liked the cover sheet, which captured all the vital information. It was, of course, generated … Continue reading →

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The Org Agenda

Posted on 2020-09-28 by jcs

Derek Taylor over at DistroTube has another useful video. This time it’s on Org agenda. Taylor is a Doom Emacs user so the keybindings will be unfamiliar to vanilla Emacs users but a couple of minutes with the manual can … Continue reading →

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