Category Archives: General

Emacs Screencasts

Posted on 2019-12-25 by jcs

Over at Meta Redux, Bozhidar Batsov, who will need no introduction to Emacs users, has a nice post on how to make a screencast from within Emacs. The result is actually an animated GIF but the results in his demo … Continue reading →

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Emacs 27 Release Branch

Posted on 2019-12-24 by jcs

Eli Zaretskii writes on the Emacs Development list that he’s created the Emacs 27 release branch. Next up is the Emacs 27.1 pretest, which he hopes to release soon. He’s also set the version number of Emacs on the Master … Continue reading →

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Plain Text For the Social Sciences

Posted on 2019-12-23 by jcs

Regular readers know that I’m fascinated by the ways that non-technical folks make use of Emacs. Despite our prejudiced assumptions, they are often sophisticated and subtle in the ways they leverage Emacs. Recently, Eric Fraga tweeted a pointer to a … Continue reading →

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John Wiegley on Emacs 27

Posted on 2019-12-22 by jcs

In another of the videos from Emacs Conference 2019, John Wiegley talks about what’s coming in Emacs 27. Wiegley is still the official maintainer but Eli Zaretskii stepped up to do the heavy lifting when Wiegley’s job intervened. Wiegley says … Continue reading →

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A Useful Tip for the Holidays

Posted on 2019-12-21 by jcs

This is way out of the usual Irreal fare but it’s, at the same time, astounding, obvious, and useful for the Christmas season: You’ve got to be kidding me. After all these years… pic.twitter.com/dhNgjCVzeG — Chuck B (@chUckbUte) December 15, … Continue reading →

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Emacs As Your Shell

Posted on 2019-12-20 by jcs

I’m finally finding time to watch more of the videos from the Emacs Conference 2019. Howard Abrams gave an interesting talk on using Emacs as his shell and scripting language. As he says, it’s just him trying out some ideas … Continue reading →

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CNBC on Open Source

Posted on 2019-12-19 by jcs

The Programming subreddit has a pointer to an interesting CNBC report on Open Source. The report is in the form of a video that is just shy of 14 minutes long so while it’s not a comprehensive survey, it’s more … Continue reading →

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Mailfence

Posted on 2019-12-18 by jcs

Those of you who liked the suggestion from Monday’s post to get rid of your Gmail account may be wondering how to do that. Realistically, if you want an account that isn’t harvesting your data, you’re going to have to … Continue reading →

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Google Blocking Some Browsers?

Posted on 2019-12-16 by jcs

There’s a mini-scandal roiling the Internet making the claim that Google is blocking some Linux browsers. It apparently started when onedoer complained on the KDE subreddit that he could no longer log in to Google services with Falkon or Konqueror. … Continue reading →

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A Bit of Wisdom…

Posted on 2019-12-15 by jcs

…from Paul Graham Ideology is artificial stupidity. — Paul Graham (@paulg) December 4, 2019

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