Category Archives: General

Casual EWW

Posted on 2026-01-23 by jcs

You’ve all heard me moan many times about my failure to bring my last remaining significant application—Web browsing—into Emacs. There are some solutions but none of them come close to being sufficient. If you want full featured browsing, you’re mostly … Continue reading →

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When Should You Use Visual-line-mode?

Posted on 2026-01-22 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, floofcode complains that he doesn’t like the way visual-line-mode handles moving from line to line. He found that everything worked fine without visual-line-mode so he wondered when is visual-line-mode useful. If you read his post, … Continue reading →

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Saving The Elfeed Database

Posted on 2026-01-21 by jcs

I’ve written before that one of things I love about Elfeed is that it keeps a database of all your feed entries. That makes it easy to find earlier content if you need to revisit or reference it for some … Continue reading →

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TMR Video

Posted on 2026-01-20 by jcs

Despite what I wrote last time about tmr, I’ve come to realize that deep down I’m a timer nerd. As my family will tell you, I can be anal about following directions precisely. If the recipe says to beat the … Continue reading →

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The Success of Markdown

Posted on 2026-01-19 by jcs

Anil Dash has a long post on How Markdown Took Over The World. We Org mode users may have a few problems with that depiction but it is fair to say that Markdown usage has become ubiquitous. We see it … Continue reading →

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Regulating Your Writing Workflow With Emacs

Posted on 2026-01-18 by jcs

A few days ago, Chris Maiorana wrote an article, The 10-Commit Rule: how git version control can improve writing quality, about how he uses Git and Emacs to regulate his writing workflow. The idea is to track how many changes … Continue reading →

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Bending Emacs 10: Agent Shell

Posted on 2026-01-17 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez has a new Bending Emacs video up. This time it’s about his agent-shell app that serves as uniform Emacs interface to LLM agents supporting the Agent Client Protocol (ACP). I’m not interested in LLM technology so you almost … Continue reading →

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Multiple Editing Instances Of A Single File

Posted on 2026-01-16 by jcs

Emacs has a couple of builtin ways of dealing with separate windows that are looking at the same file. The default method is to simply “open” the file again in a separate window. In this case you have two views … Continue reading →

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Making Agenda Items Into Appointments

Posted on 2026-01-15 by jcs

Every Org mode user knows that you can add tasks to your Org agenda with a SCHEDULED or DEADLINE keyword. That will cause your agenda to warn you ahead of time of upcoming tasks requiring your attention. Emacs also has … Continue reading →

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Unix V4 Source Commentary

Posted on 2026-01-14 by jcs

I’ve written a couple of times about the recent discovery of the only known Unix v4 tape. The v4 release, which was generally considered lost, is important because it is the first Unix that was written in C and therefore … Continue reading →

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