Category Archives: General

An Emacs Journey

Posted on 2019-05-17 by jcs

Someone tweeted a link to a 6-month-old post by Murat Demirbas, a computer scientist at SUNY Buffalo. The post, My Emacs Journey, describes Demirbas’ use of Emacs and his embracing of Org mode. He’s been using Emacs for over 20 … Continue reading →

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Adding Your YouTube Subscriptions to Elfeed

Posted on 2019-05-16 by jcs

If you’ve been around Irreal for a while, you know that I’m a very happy user of elfeed for my RSS needs. It’s easy, fast, and, of course, I can read my feeds from within Emacs. Just the other day, … Continue reading →

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Markdown in Org-mode

Posted on 2019-05-15 by jcs

Org-mode seems to be gobbling up everything having to do with text generation. Here’s the latest example: Using #markdown blocks in #emacs #orgmode to automatically generate pdf files :-) That’s a way to combine multiple documents in one orgmode file. … Continue reading →

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A Development Environment

Posted on 2019-05-14 by jcs

If you’re a software engineer, one of the most important aspects of your working life is your development environment. You’ve got to be comfortable with your editor, your debuggers, your OS, your desktop, and the other important pieces of your … Continue reading →

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Refactoring in Spacemacs

Posted on 2019-05-13 by jcs

Jack of Some is back with another video. This one is about using Spacemacs to refactor code. For someone who’s content with vanilla Emacs and has no plans to move to one of the other configurations, I’ve been writing a … Continue reading →

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More Org Gems: Tables

Posted on 2019-05-12 by jcs

Just after I published yesterday’s post on Org-mode Gems, I discovered that Cheong Yiufung has another post up with some more Org gems. This time he considers Org Table Gems. In this post he demonstrates three things about working with … Continue reading →

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Org-mode Gems

Posted on 2019-05-11 by jcs

Every Org-mode user is aware that Org is a huge package stuffed with all sorts of useful functionality. For most of us, a lot of that functionality remains unknown and hidden. Most often the only way to find out about … Continue reading →

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Another Org-mode with Spacemacs Tutorial

Posted on 2019-05-10 by jcs

Nathan Lovato has a tutorial on using Org-mode with Spacemacs. It’s longer and more comprehensive than Jack of Some’s introductory video on Org with Spacemacs, but as with that video, Lovato’s looks at Org from the Spacemacs user’s point of … Continue reading →

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Alzheimer’s and Gaming

Posted on 2019-05-09 by jcs

Years (and years) ago, the usual crazies were running around making dire predictions about Rock and Roll and how it was going to destroy young people. It seems pretty ludicrous now but these people were serious and generally made pests … Continue reading →

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Tabs and Indentation in Emacs

Posted on 2019-05-08 by jcs

To my mind, one of the most confusing and arcane “everyday things” in Emacs is the subject of tabs, the Tab key, and indentation. I’ve been using Emacs for over a decade but I still remember how hard it was … Continue reading →

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