Category Archives: General

A Couple Of Tips For Emacs on macOS

Posted on 2026-07-25 by jcs

Over at The Art Of Not Asking Why, JTR has begun a series on his Emacs configuration. This post covers his special arrangements for macOS. There are two tips, in particular, that seem to come up all the time. The … Continue reading →

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Emacs 31.0.91 (pretest 2) Is Available

Posted on 2026-07-24 by jcs

Sean Whitton writes to say that Emacs 31.0.91, the second Emacs 31 pretest, is now available. If you’re interested in trying it out, you can get a copy from https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-31.0.91.tar.xz. It’s signed so you should also get the signature file … Continue reading →

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Making A Window Dedicated

Posted on 2026-07-23 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov has been a writing a very nice series of posts on recent Emacs additions that are worth knowing. His latest is on making a window dedicated. A dedicated window is one that is locked to its current buffer. … Continue reading →

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Aligning Mode Line Elements

Posted on 2026-07-22 by jcs

Mode lines. Everybody complains about them and a few brave souls—like Prot—have even taken the time and effort to do something about them. The problem is that they’re so tricky to configure that it’s not worthwhile so we just suffer … Continue reading →

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Flymake Diagnostics

Posted on 2026-07-21 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov has a quick post on a recent enhancement to Emacs Flymake. The TL;DR is that you can arrange for Flymake to append a diagnostic at the end of any line with a problem. It’s a quick way of … Continue reading →

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A Small Jinx Tweak

Posted on 2026-07-20 by jcs

As I’ve written recently [1, 2, 3, 4], I’ve been changing the Irreal Bunker’s spelling corrector to Jinx. I’ve had a couple of issues—mostly with choosing the correction—but things have mostly been smooth and Jinx has a lot of nice … Continue reading →

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Reading

Posted on 2026-07-19 by jcs

Elia Scotto has a very nice post on the reading habit. He says he’s been reading about a book a week for several years. The gist of the post is “how to read more books”. His advice for that is … Continue reading →

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Embark

Posted on 2026-07-18 by jcs

Some time ago, I installed Embark but I never got around to learning it and it has sat unused ever since. Then I saw this post by Bozhidar Batsov and decided to take another look. The problem with Embark is … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: The Apple TV Price Increase

Posted on 2026-07-17 by jcs

Jason Snell has a few words to say about Dan Rayburns’s post on LinkedIn concerning the price increase for Apple TV and why it spells the end of the device. I, too, have a couple of things to say. First, … Continue reading →

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The Computers Of Jurassic Park

Posted on 2026-07-16 by jcs

Jurassic Park was released 33 years ago. If you were there or know anything the movie, you know that computers played a large role in making it. The most famous example of that was the CGI rendering of T-Rex. I … Continue reading →

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