Category Archives: General

Running Your Life With Emacs

Posted on 2019-03-18 by jcs

I’ve written a lot about how I hate leaving Emacs and find that its consistent UX and key bindings make a huge difference in the efficiency of my workflow. Not everyone agrees. Many people think I’m being overly sensitive when … Continue reading →

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Dealing with GitHub Pull Requests in Emacs

Posted on 2019-03-16 by jcs

Laurent Charignon has an very nice package for dealing with GitHub pull requests from within Emacs. His package, github-review, allows you to retrieve the pull request from GitHub and deal with it entirely within Emacs. You can even work off-line … Continue reading →

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How and Why To Normalize Unicode

Posted on 2019-03-15 by jcs

From the excellent TeX Tip twitter feed, I found a pointer to an excellent article by Alessandro Segala concerning something I didn’t know much about and that many Irreal readers might not know about either: how and why to normalize … Continue reading →

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EmacsCast #8: Writing

Posted on 2019-03-14 by jcs

Rakhim Davletkaliyev is back with another episode of his Emacs podcast, EmacsCast. This time he presents part one of a two-part series on writing in Emacs and Org mode. My first thought as I started to listen to the podcast … Continue reading →

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An Afterword on Being Almost There

Posted on 2019-03-13 by jcs

In a comment to my recent post on achieving a digital life, Zarniwoop asks about the risks of putting all my eggs in one basket if everything I need for everyday carry is on my iPhone. That’s a question I … Continue reading →

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Almost There

Posted on 2019-03-11 by jcs

As regular readers know, I try to live the digital life as much as I can. By “digital life” I mean eschewing paper and paper processes and running as much of my life as possible with my phone and computers. … Continue reading →

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Guess What Day It Is

Posted on 2019-03-10 by jcs

No, not hump day. It’s the 46th anniversary of the release of Pink Floyd’s iconic Dark Side of the Moon. As I do every year on this date, I’d like to say, “Happy Birthday” to one of the greatest and … Continue reading →

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Zamansky: A Quick Review of Editors

Posted on 2019-03-09 by jcs

Mike Zamansky posted a quick review of programming editors and IDEs. It’s actually intended to be about picking a Java Editor/IDE in support of Java programming courses for teachers but it’s more generally useful. Zamansky, of course, is an Emacs … Continue reading →

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Texting and Line Editing

Posted on 2019-03-08 by jcs

In the past, I’ve written disparagingly about line editing as practiced with the ed editor. That’s not to say that ed isn’t a great editor or that it doesn’t have its uses even today, just that no one (in their … Continue reading →

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Another Org-based Writing Environment

Posted on 2019-03-07 by jcs

John Borwick was looking for a writing environment that suited him. He’d tried Scrivener and some of the other tools but they didn’t work for him. Then he saw Jay Dixit’s video that I wrote about back in 2015 and … Continue reading →

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