Category Archives: General

Prot’s Video From His FOSS @ Oxford Talk

Posted on 2026-03-14 by jcs

Just a quick post today to note that Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has published the video from his FOSS @ Oxford talk that I wrote about yesterday. Actually, he says that it’s a modified version of that talk so I don’t … Continue reading →

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Prot On Emacs At FLOSS @ Oxford

Posted on 2026-03-13 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) recently gave a talk to the FOSS @ Oxford event on the power of Emacs and why he uses it. The video for the talk is not yet available but he does have the transcript that he … Continue reading →

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Code Formatting With Emacs

Posted on 2026-03-12 by jcs

Code formatters. Many people swear by them and always run their code through a formatter before checking it in. I’ve never seen the need for them. I have strong feelings about code format and I always write my code to … Continue reading →

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Displaying Attached Image Files

Posted on 2026-03-11 by jcs

Over at The Art of Not Asking Why, JTR has a nice post on attaching an image file to an Org file and displaying it inline. He begins by reviewing how to display an image file inline in an Org … Continue reading →

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Happy 53rd Birthday To Dark Side Of The Moon

Posted on 2026-03-10 by jcs

As I do every year on this day, I want to wish Happy Birthday to Dark Side of the Moon, the best album of all time by the best rock band of all time, Pink Floyd. Of course, you’re free … Continue reading →

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How CHM Recovered The Unix v4 Tape

Posted on 2026-03-09 by jcs

I’ve written a few posts [1, 2, 3] on the recently discovered Unix v4 tape. The tape is significant because it is the only known extant copy of Unix v4. Unix v4 is significant because it was the first copy … Continue reading →

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Abrams On Literate Programming Redux

Posted on 2026-03-08 by jcs

Howard Abrams has a video and associated post that updates his post on the same subject from 11 years ago. As with yesterday’s post, the video is from EmacsConf 2024 but someone just reposted it to reddit and it’s definitely … Continue reading →

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A Video On The Casual Suite

Posted on 2026-03-07 by jcs

Those of you that hang out on Irreal know that I think highly of Charles Choi’s Casual Suite. It’s just what you need for modes that have a lot of seldom used commands or modes that themselves are seldom used. … Continue reading →

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Transposing Things

Posted on 2026-03-06 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov is back with another great post on recent additions to Emacs, This time it’s about transposing things in Emacs. Most experienced Emacs users are familiar with transpose-chars and transpose-words. I’ve heard it suggested the that the use of … Continue reading →

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Choi’s Casual Suite Is Now Available on NonGnu ELPA

Posted on 2026-03-05 by jcs

After a considerable amount of back and forth on the Emacs Devel Mailing List, Charles Choi’s Casual Suite has been accepted for inclusion on the NonGnu ELPA repository. If you’re already a Casual user, this makes no substantive difference. You … Continue reading →

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